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Composer: Faure, Gabriel

Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120

Crawford-Phillips, Simon

Hosford, Richard

Svedberg, Jesper

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Cello: Svedberg, Jesper

Clarinet: Hosford, Richard

Piano: Crawford-Phillips, Simon

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Year of Production: April 2013

Playing Time: 00:08:23

Catalogue Number: NVF0119

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Faure wrote his Piano Trio in D minor between August 1922 and the following spring, undertaking the work at the prompting of his publisher, Jacques Durand. Whatever Durand may have suggested, Faure, staying at Annecy-le Vieux in the Haute Savoie, first set about writing a work for clarinet, cello and piano, before turning to the more usual instrumentation. It is recorded here as seemingly originally intended, with the clarinet adding a new dimension to a work generally familiar in its more conventional published version. Faure first completed the Andantino and then, back in Paris, the other two movements, with the final Allegro vivo finished by March 1923. The work was dedicated to Mme Maurice Rouvier, widow of the former banker and President of the Council.