For more than forty years Allain Gaussin fascinated by astrophysics has found a major source of inspiration in observing the cosmos as attest a number of works going from Vent solaire (1974) to Philae (2015) by way of L’Harmonie des sphères (2006). Ten years later the 'Messiaen du Pays de la Meije' Festival hosted the first performance of the piano trio Les Céphéides. The musical journey enables the listener to enter a space 'just as impalpable and fragile' as that in which moves each Cepheid variable – this star whose brightness varies over regular periods according to two elements: the diameter of the heavenly body and thetemperature reading of its surface. How does one translate such a change in music? The bow's sautillé gettato on the violin and cello gives the score's opening pages this granular glittering that leads us 'towards the centre of the Cepheid variables'. From there a stream of colourful arabesques – the composer's 'ribbon figures' – gushes forth. After a weightless transition the cello unfurls its contemplative meditation which ends up in a suspended coda open onto the infinity of the starry vault. As musicologist Michèle Tosi accurately says so it is that the full richness 'of a teeming imaginary universe' unfolds.

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. Five multi-movement trios for piano and two string instruments by Sibelius are known from the years 1883?1888. The ?large? trios, such as the Havträsk and Korpo Trio (JS 207, JS 209), were written for the classical piano trio scoring of violin, violoncello and piano. Apparently, Sibelius kept composing trios to play among his family and friends, having in mind to be one of the musicians himself. Chamber music was an essential part of social life. When listening to Sibelius? trios, one cannot help but notice that the repertoire included many works of Viennese Classicism. Although Sibelius's feelings towards his youthful works were not exactly uncomplicated, Sibelius biographer Otto Andersson later reported ?that the master, in later years, missed [the Korpo Trio] very much and would have been very pleased to see [it] preserved.? / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Violon, Violoncelle et Piano

Instrumentation: piano trio (violin, violoncello and piano) Edition: score and parts editor: Eberhard Mayer Item no.: fue 4160 Difficulty: medium ISMN: 979-0-50012-916-5 Mel Bonis?s music became more and more influenced by a highly refined impressionism over the years. Her work was enriched by new rhythmic innovations and willingly turned towards humour. Surely they belong to the most important chamber music compositions in French Post Romanticism and can greatly enrich today?s concert programmes.

Ernest Chausson's Piano Trio In G Minor Op. 3. Score and parts. Following his early elimination from the Paris Conservatoire's sought-after award for students of composition the “Prix deRome” Ernest Chausson withdrew to the country in summer 1881 and began composing this ambitious work – out of defiance so to speak. During his lifetime the trio remained an insider’s tip amongst thoseclose to his teacher César Franck. It was only after its posthumous publication that it was performed more frequently and was gradually recognized as being one of the best chamber music works of its time. ThePiano Trio In G Minor Op. 3 is closely based on Franck’s principle of the cyclic interleaving of all motives yet still has dark and melancholy inflections all of its own. The Henle Urtext edition is thefirst critical edition and is a welcome addition to their collection of French music.