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Piano Trio R6
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The Piano Trio has been recorded but once,
and I can only imagine that this took quite a bit of detective
work as Geoffrey Self suggested in his book that scores were
particularly hard to come by - especially from the publisher!
This is a shame as this really is a remarkable piece of music,
a real must-have for anyone interested in Moeran's chamber
music output.
ASV CD CDDCA1045
Joachim Trio
Published February 1999
We finish with the
Piano Trio, Moeran’s grandest chamber work, first heard
in 1921 (the A minor Quartet dates from the same year) but
extensively revised for publication four years later. Cast
in four movements, it is less distinctive than its companions
(there are plentiful echoes of John Ireland, with whom Moeran
was studying privately – and Ravel’s Piano Trio
can be heard loud and clear in the Scherzo), yet in its heady
lyrical flow the piece has much in common with such contemporaneous
offerings as the Violin Sonata and the orchestral In the Mountain
Country and the First Rhapsody. The Joachim Trio give a thoughtful,
beautifully prepared rendering, and although Cantamen’s
rival world premiere account on British Music Society is scarcely
less passionate or accomplished than this newcomer, it is
by no means as sympathetically captured by the microphones.
In summary, an enterprising,
beautifully engineered and uncommonly generous anthology –
and a release, I fancy, already destined for inclusion in
my ‘Critics’ Choice’ come the year’s end.
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