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A Room Of Her Own / Neave Trio

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Composer
Lili Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade, Dame Ethel Smyth, Germaine Tailleferre
Artist
Neave Trio
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Feb 16, 2024
Catalog #
CHAN 20238
UPC
095115223826

About

In a follow-up to its extremely successful album Her Voice, the Neave Trio on A Room of Her Own once again champions the works of female composers. The only non-French composer on the album is Ethel Smyth whose Piano Trio, one of her earliest works, was composed in 1880. Like many of her works from this era, it shows a clear nod to the Austro-German influences of her studies in Leipzig, particularly of Brahms. Cecile Chaminade was born just a year before Smyth, and her First Piano Trio was written in the same year as Smyth’s. The Paris première was very well received by the critics, and the Trio was published a year later. Germaine Tailleferre’s Piano Trio began life in 1916 – 17 as a work in three movements, and then gathered dust for over sixty years, until a commission from France’s Ministère de la Culture, in 1978, enabled Tailleferre to revive and re-imagine it. By then in her mid-eighties, Tailleferre replaced the original second movement and added a fourth. The Trio is an excellent example of her compositional style – a voice that remained consistent though her long compositional career. Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and D’un soir triste are perhaps now better known in their orchestral versions: this recording proves that the two pieces work equally well at either scale. As they are among the last compositions of her short life (she died of chronic illness at twenty-four), we are left to imagine what she might have written had she lived longer.

REVIEW:

These chamber works are still not in the mainstream. The Neave Trio put their case eloquently.

-- The Guardian (U.K.)

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 D'un matin de printemps (version for piano trio) 04:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    D'un matin de printemps (version for piano trio)
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Lili Boulanger
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  2. 2 D'un soir triste (version for piano trio) 10:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    D'un soir triste (version for piano trio)
    Duration
    10:21
    Composer
    Lili Boulanger
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  3. 3 I. Allegro 08:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    08:19
    Composer
    Cécile Chaminade
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  4. 4 II. Andante 04:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Cécile Chaminade
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  5. 5 III. Presto leggiero 03:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Presto leggiero
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Cécile Chaminade
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  6. 6 IV. Allegro molto agitato 05:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    IV. Allegro molto agitato
    Duration
    05:56
    Composer
    Cécile Chaminade
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  7. 7 I. Allegro animato 04:04
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro animato
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Germaine Tailleferre
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  8. 8 II. Allegro vivace 03:14
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Germaine Tailleferre
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  9. 9 III. Moderato 02:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Moderato
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Germaine Tailleferre
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  10. 10 IV. Très animé 04:08
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Très animé
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Germaine Tailleferre
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  11. 11 I. Allegro non troppo 09:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  12. 12 II. 'Der Mutte [sic] der Einfachkeit [sic]?!' 06:17
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. 'Der Mutte [sic] der Einfachkeit [sic]?!'
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  13. 13 III. Scherzo: Presto con brio 04:08
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Presto con brio
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio
  14. 14 IV. Finale: Allegro vivace 11:10
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro vivace
    Duration
    11:10
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Ensemble
    Neave Trio