Ernest Moeran: Chamber Music Fidelio Trio

• Ernest Moeran (1894 - 1950): Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Minor:
• 1 Moeran: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Minor: I. Allegro non troppo ma energico 06:13
• 2 Moeran: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Minor: II. Lento 08:17
• 3 Moeran: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Minor: III. Vivace e molto ritmico 05:32
• Sonata for Two Violins:
• 4 Moeran: Sonata for Two Violins: I. Allegro non troppo 05:52
• 5 Moeran: Sonata for Two Violins: II. Presto 03:56
• 6 Moeran: Sonata for Two Violins: III. Passacaglia 05:05
• Prelude for Cello and Piano:
• 7 Moeran: Prelude for Cello and Piano 05:10
• Piano Trio in D Major:
• 8 Moeran: Piano Trio in D Major: I. Allegro 07:06
• 9 Moeran: Piano Trio in D Major: II. Lento molto - Andante 07:47
• 10 Moeran: Piano Trio in D Major: III. Allegro vivace 05:18
• 11 Moeran: Piano Trio in D Major: IV. Allegro 06:03
• Total Runtime 01:06:19

Info for Ernest Moeran: Chamber Music

Ernest Moeran’s love for Ireland and absorption of its music and musicians led to the composer living on the island of Valentia for two years while later making Kenmare his second home from around 1934 until his death there in 1950. Moeran’s experiences in Ireland appear to have influenced him melodically in the traditional folk dance-like textures he embraces, particularly throughout his early Piano Trio and Violin Sonata featured on this album alongside his Prelude for Cello and Piano and Sonata for Two Violins.

With their own strong links to Ireland, the album is performed by the Fidelio Trio with violinist Nicky Sweeney. In the four chamber works on this album Moeran’s use of melodic and harmonic turns, his approach to instrumentation and command of the strings and piano writing, has gifted us a treasure trove of focus in repertoire, utterly connected, through him, with music of places and peoples.

Fidelio Trio:
Darragh Morgan, violin
Tim Gill, cello
Mary Dullea, piano
Guest:
Nicky Sweeney, violin

Fidelio Trio
The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan, violin, Adi Tal, cello and Mary Dullea, piano. Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, the Fidelio Trio are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world; they are broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC, NPR and featured on Sky Arts documentaries; they have a impressive list of commissions and first performances from the leading and newest composers and have a large discography of highly acclaimed recordings.

Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, they have appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place and at festivals from Brighton and Cheltenham to St. Magnus and from Gregynog to Huddersfield; regularly performing across the Irish Sea at National Concert Hall, Dublin, Kilkenny Festival and Belfast Festival at Queens and overseas in Shanghai, Porto, Paris, Venice & Florence, Johannesburg, New York City, Princeton, San Francisco and Boston.

Their extensive discography includes Korngold and Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht arr. Steuermann) for Naxos; the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records; multiple releases on NMC, Delphian Records and Convivium including portrait CDs for composers such as Luke Bedford and Michael Zev Gordon. Their next release this year will be the Ravel and Saint-Saëns trios for Resonus Classics.

Keen to ensure the future of the piano trio, The Fidelio Trio work closely with composition and performance students at institutions across the UK and all over the world including the Peabody Conservatory, Curtis Institute, Stellenbosch Conservatorium and WITS Johannesburg and have been artists-in-residence at St. Patrick’s College Dublin City University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and the State University of New York, SUNY.

They are constantly commissioning new works, giving first performances and, importantly, further performances to introduce them into the repertory. Composers that the Trio has worked closely with include Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud, Michael Nyman, Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Evan Ziporyn, Simon Bainbridge, Judith Weir … to name but few.

Inspirational musicians The Fidelio Trio have collaborated with include Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Richard Watkins (horn), Joan Rodgers and Patricia Rozario (soprano), and with spoken word, author Alexander McCall Smith and poet, Sinéad Morrissey.

The 2015-16 season has included a series of French Piano Trios at St. John’s Smith Square, a residency at University of Birmingham, a tour of India, the ‘Beyond Borders’ PRS for Music Foundation tour of UK and Ireland with composer Piers Hellawell and T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey, many festival appearances and an extensive tour of Asia. They continue as Artistic Directors of their annual Winter Chamber Music Festival St. Patrick’s College, Dublin and continue to be passionate in their advocacy for the piano trio across the world.

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