Bernstein / Foote / Korngold / Neave Trio - American Moments - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hailed by the magazine BBC Music for it's 'generous and warm-hearted, utterly beguiling playing', the Neave Trio has emerged as one of the finest young ensembles of it's generation. It has been praised by WQXR Radio in New York City for it's '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 it's 'excellent performances'. Here, the trio presents a program of music connected by the theme of Remembrance. Rachmaninoff's early first piano trio was inspired by Tchaikovsky's trio in A minor, and shows illuminating glimpses of the mature composer to come. The elegiac mood of Rachmaninoff's work is matched by that of Brahms's first trio - again an early composition - which was inspired by the composer's (unrequited) feelings for Clara Schumann. Ravel's only piano trio was composed in 1914, as France was being drawn into the horrors of the first world war. Ravel draws extensively on the rhythms and forms of his native Basque musical traditions, while the title of the second movement, 'Pantoum', refers to a form of traditional Malaysian poetry which typically deals with two separate themes in alternation, a feature to which Ravel responds with a series of contrasting themes and textures. Chamber Neave Trio - Anna Williams violin - Mikhail Veselov cello - Eri Nakamura piano Album Tracks 1. Trio Élégiaque No.1 in G minor for Piano, Violin and Cello Sergei Rachmaninoff 2. Trio No.1, Op.8 Johannes Brahms 3. Allegro Con Brio - Tranquillo 4. Scherzo. Allegro Molto - Meno Allegro - Tempo I 5. Adagio 6. Allegro 7. Trio, M.67 - Maurice Ravel 8. Modéré - Animez Peu À Peu - Cédez TRÈS Peu - Plus Lent Qu'au Début - Un Peu Plus Lent 9. Pantoum. Assez Vif 10. Passacaille. TRÈS Large 11. Final. Animé - Moins Animé

Zemlinsky, Korngold and Bloch also shared the fate of so many other important musical voices of the early twentieth century when their music was banned, and their lives and careers upended, by the Nazi regime.  All three names can be found in the infamous Lexikon der Juden in der Musik, first published under the auspices of the Nazi Party in 1940. These policies, and others, created a rupture in the seamless heritage of German music, removing thousands of worthy works from performance, from publication and-for many- from posterity. It is the hope that musicians and music-lovers everywhere will hear these three works, and be intrigued to listen to-and to play-these and other chamber works by the many composers whose fortunes were curtailed by unfortunate timing on the stage of twentieth-century Europe. James Conlon. Album Tracks 1. Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in D minor, Op. 3 2. Three Nocturnes for Piano, Violin and Cello 3. Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in D Major, Op. 1

Album Tracks 1. I. Molto Allegro Ed Agitato 2. II. Andante Con Moto Tranquillo 3. III. Scherzo Leggiero E Vivace 4. IV. Finale Allegro Assai Appassionato 5. I. Moderato Assai 6. II. Allegro, Ma Non Agitato 7. III. Finale Presto