Neave Trio

Neave Trio – Musical Remembrances – Rachmaninoff Brahms Ravel Piano Trios (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:56 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos

Hailed by the magazine BBC Music for its “generous and warm-hearted, utterly beguiling playing”, the Neave Trio has emerged as one of the finest young ensembles of its generation. It has been praised by WQXR Radio in New York City for its “bright and radiant music making”, described by “The Strad” as having “elegant phrasing and deft control of textures”, and praised by “The New York Times” for its “excellent performances”.
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Neave Trio – A Room of Her Own (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:11 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

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. Cécile 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.

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Neave Trio – Her Voice (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:04 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

For this their third album for Chandos, the Neave Trio chose to celebrate the work of three outstanding female musical pioneers. Louise Farrenc studied piano with Clementi and Hummel, and composition with Reicha. She was the first female Professor at the Paris Conservatoire, teaching piano there from 1842 until 1872, although it took her a decade to achieve equal pay with her male colleagues. Rebecca Clarke was a composer and viola player, and became the first female player in Henry Wood’s Queen’s Hall Orchestra, in 1912. Amy Beach was an American pianist and composer, and her Gaelic Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. These piano trios, so vividly contrasting in style, provide an excellent gateway into the soundworlds of three diverse, pioneering composers.

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Neave Trio – Musical Remembrances – Rachmaninoff Brahms Ravel Piano Trios (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:56 minutes | 1,21 GBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos

Hailed by the magazine BBC Music for its “generous and warm-hearted, utterly beguiling playing”, the Neave Trio has emerged as one of the finest young ensembles of its generation. It has been praised by WQXR Radio in New York City for its “bright and radiant music making”, described by “The Strad” as having “elegant phrasing and deft control of textures”, and praised by “The New York Times” for its “excellent performances”.
(more…)