Prolific composer Elena Ruehr infuses her chamber works with programmatic elements that bring them to expressive and energetic life. Winter Night is the result of a close collaboration with the Boston Trio, who are joined by violist Marcus Thompson in Elena’s piano quartet. A proliferation of programmatic music infuses Winter Night, composer Elena Ruehr’s seventh release on AVIE, the result of a particularly close collaboration with the international members of the Boston Trio – violinist Irina Muresanu and cellist Mihai Marica, both Romanians, and Korean pianist Heng-Jin Park –who are joined by native New Yorker violist Marcus Thompson in Elena’s piano quartet. Emotions, energy and the natural world abound in the world premiere recordings of the album’s four works.