Her Voice: Piano Trios by Amy Beach, Louise Farrenc and Rebecca Clarke
Piano Trios
Neave Trio
Awards:
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
Collectors may prefer all-Beach or all-Farrenc couplings but the Neave’s programme makes a splendid introduction to these three pioneering female composers.
Her Voice: Piano Trios by Amy Beach, Louise Farrenc and Rebecca Clarke
Piano Trios
Neave Trio
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Awards:
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
Collectors may prefer all-Beach or all-Farrenc couplings but the Neave’s programme makes a splendid introduction to these three pioneering female composers.
About
The first female Professor at the Paris Conservatoire, the first female player in the Queen’s Hall Orchestra and the first female American Symphonist to be published. The Neave Trio celebrate these three outstanding pioneers on this captivating album. Since forming in 2010, Neave Trio – violinist Anna Williams, cellist Mikhail Veselov, and pianist Eri Nakamura – has earned enormous praise for its engaging, cutting-edge performances. WQXR explains, "'Neave' is actually a Gaelic name meaning 'bright' and 'radiant', both of which certainly apply to this trio's music making." The Boston Musical Intelligencer included Neave in its “Best of 2014” and “Best of 2016” roundups, writing, “it is inconceivable that they will not soon be among the busiest chamber ensembles going,” and “their unanimity, communication, variety of touch, and expressive sensibility rate first tier.”
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Awards and reviews
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The New York TimesRecordings of the Year 2019
November 2019
Collectors may prefer all-Beach or all-Farrenc couplings but the Neave’s programme makes a splendid introduction to these three pioneering female composers.
November 2019
Instrumental finesse and a fine sense of colour.
20th October 2019
The Neave Trio, playing superbly, offer three impressive piano trios by women...Clarke’s powerful 1921 Trio, with its bold harmonies and textures, surely represents English music at its most innovative.
December 2019
The Neave Trio champions the voices of three thoroughly deserving in composers on the disc…
The New York Times 12th December 2019
What excellent performances this trio gives here of works that deserve them: by Louise Farrenc, Amy Beach and, most revealing, Rebecca Clarke, whose quicksilver, folk-inspired piece from 1921 can be combative, but has moments of haunting respite.
