Special offer. Fauré, Chausson & Satie: Piano Trios
Fidelio Trio
The medium is notorious for presenting problems of balance…The piano here also has an especially resonant bass. This is a pity, since the playing is accurate and stylish, embracing the grand...
Special offer. Fauré, Chausson & Satie: Piano Trios
Fidelio Trio
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The medium is notorious for presenting problems of balance…The piano here also has an especially resonant bass. This is a pity, since the playing is accurate and stylish, embracing the grand...
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Following on from their acclaimed Resonus debut the Fidelio Trio continues its exploration of the French piano trio with this impressive new recording of works by Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Chausson, and Erik Satie. Chausson’s opulent and lyrical Op. 3 piano trio from 1881, is joined by Fauré’s only work in the genre – the heartfelt Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 – composed during the latter part of his life. The album is completed with arrangements by John White of works by Erik Satie – selections from his only liturgical work, the Messe des Pauvres, and the incidental music to his own play, Le Piège de Meduse.
Contents and tracklist
Work length30:00
This work is only available as an album download.
- Fidelio Trio
I. Pas trop lent
Track length10:03
This track is only available as an album download.
- Fidelio Trio
Satie:
Messe des Pauvres: VII. Prière pour le salut de mon âme (arr. for Piano Trio by John White)
Work length3:29
- Fidelio Trio
- Fidelio Trio
Awards and reviews
April 2019
The medium is notorious for presenting problems of balance…The piano here also has an especially resonant bass. This is a pity, since the playing is accurate and stylish, embracing the grand manner…John White’s straightforward Satie arrangements give us two contrasting sides of his music: the hieratic and the jokey.
March 2019
First, Chausson’s early-career Trio of 1881, and the Fidelio Trio’s playing hits both its dramatically big-boned and its more delicate writing on the head…In fact delicacy and flow are the watchwords across the album…Add the personality of the recording space of New Maltings in Alpheton, Suffolk, and this is one to savour.
13th January 2019
[The play] piano trios by Fauré, Chausson and Satie (Resonus) with consummate musicianship. Chausson’s G minor work comes to brooding, intense life in their hands, as does Fauré’s only venture into this genre, his heartfelt trio in D minor.
