Utwory na płycie:

• Smetana - Piano Trio Op.15 - Moderato assai - Piu animato - Tempo rubato -
• Smetana - Piano Trio Op.15 - Allegro ma non agitato - Alternativo I. Andante -
• Smetana - Piano Trio Op.15 - Finale. Presto - Meno presto tranquillo assai - Piu mosso -
• Coleridge-Taylor - Five Negro Melodies - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (No.22).
• Coleridge-Taylor - Five Negro Melodies - I was way down a-yonder (No.15). Andante con moto
• Coleridge-Taylor - Five Negro Melodies - Didnt my Lord deliver Daniel (No.11). Allegro molto
• Coleridge-Taylor - Five Negro Melodies - They will not lend me a child (No.4). Lento
• Coleridge-Taylor - Five Negro Melodies - My Lord delivered Daniel (No.18). Allegro molto - Piu mosso
• Suk - Petit Trio Op.2 - Allegro - Largamente - A tempo - Largo -
• Suk - Petit Trio Op.2 - Andante - Adagio
• Suk - Petit Trio Op.2 - Vivace
• Martin - Trio - Allegro moderato - Piu mosso - Poco piu mosso -
• Martin - Trio - Adagio - Piu mosso - Piu mosso - Poco stringendo -
• Martin - Trio - Gigue. Allegro - Piu mosso - Tempo I

Smetana:
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15

Coleridge-Taylor:
Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio, Op. 59

Suk:
Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 2

Martin:
Trio

The Neave Trio’s programme Rooted features a range of works based on folk music. Smetana’s distinctive nationalistic style was largely based on the inclusion of bohemian rhythmic and melodic elements, and he was acclaimed in his native Bohemia as the father of Czech music. His Trio in G minor was composed in 1855 as a response to the death of his four-year old daughter and shows the influence of Liszt. Josef Suk was a favourite pupil of Dvořák’s, and his early Piano Trio, whilst shorter in length and less intense than Smetana’s, is embedded in that Czech tradition. Also deeply influenced by Dvořák, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was inspired by his African heritage, as well, and his Twenty-Four Negro Melodies for Piano was a prime example of his research. He subsequently arranged five of these pieces into the suite for piano trio that we hear on this album. The programme concludes with Frank Martin’s Trio from 1925, which is based on traditional Irish melodies.