String Trio (V1, V2, Cello) and continuo

SKU: HH.HH587-FSP

Composed by Frederich Ernest Fisher. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH587-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH587-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213024.

Fisher’s Op. 2 set is externally very similar to its Op. 1 predecessor in its combinations of movement types and musical language, but now has an added spaciousness and audacity born of greater maturity. Everything is wonderfully blended: the fugal movements are melodious; the ‘singing allegros’ are harmonically rich and contrapuntally charged; the dance-like movements, full of happy surprises, fizz and purr. Op. 2 appeared in print only in the year following Fisher’s death. Surprisingly in the circumstances, the level of accuracy in the engraved parts matched the high standard set by Op. 1. This would have gratified the composer, who was so evidently a perfectionist in all he undertook.