Alchemy Trio Spilliaert

• Alex De Taeye (1898 - 1952): Pièces pour trio à clavier:
• 1 Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier: Sourire d'avril 03:48
• 2 Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier: Aubade à l’aimé 02:22
• Trio en do majeur pour violon, violoncelle et piano:
• 3 Taeye: Trio en do majeur pour violon, violoncelle et piano: I. Moderato 08:13
• 4 Taeye: Trio en do majeur pour violon, violoncelle et piano: II. Grave, molto sostenuto ed espressivo 07:50
• 5 Taeye: Trio en do majeur pour violon, violoncelle et piano: III. Allegro giocoso 05:39
• Pièces pour trio à clavier:
• 6 Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier: Bourrée 02:19
• 7 Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier: Douleur, lied pour trio 04:18
• Lucie Vellère (1896 - 1966): Trio avec piano:
• 8 Vellère: Trio avec piano: I. Avec fougue 09:05
• 9 Vellère: Trio avec piano: II. Vif 05:27
• 10 Vellère: Trio avec piano: III. Modéré, avec souplesse 06:19
• 11 Vellère: Trio avec piano: IV. Rythmé 05:51
• Alex De Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier:
• 12 Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier: Mélodie 04:16
• 13 Taeye: Pièces pour trio à clavier: Badinage 02:24
• Total Runtime 01:07:51

Info for Alchemy

In bringing together in the same recording the trios of Alex De Taeye and of Lucie Vellère, we create a dialogue with two contrasting yet profoundly complementary voices of twentieth century Belgian music. They were contemporary, brought up in the same cultural climate, and they embody two faces of the same epoch: one, institutional and influential, a recognised figure of the academic milieu; the other, more intimate, almost clandestine, for whom chamber music was a refuge of liberty and sincerity.

Their trios, though exceptional in their respective catalogues, share the same demand for clarity, balance and sensitivity. Each has an individual aesthetic: that of de Taeye, the inheritor of a bountiful, controlled post-romanticism; that of Vellère, imbued with an inner gentleness and a heightened sense of colour. Set side by side, these two works form a mirror portrait of a musical Belgium lying between tradition and modernity, between public illumination and poetic reclusion.

Trio Spilliaert:
Jean-Samuel Bez, violin
Guillaume Lagravière,cello
Gauvain de Morant,piano

Trio Spilliaert
Formed in Brussels, the Spilliaert Trio was named after the famous painter Léon Spilliaert whose works the trio drew his first inspirations. He reunites the pianist Gauvain de Morant, the violinist Jean-Samuel Bez and the cellist Guillaume Lagravière. ​

Prize winner of several international competitions, he was awarded in 2017 First Prize at the international ''Svirel'' contest in Slovenia. In 2018, they've won the City of Lege-Cap-Ferret Prize during the Open Cap Ferret and joined the tours of the Jeunesses Musicales de Wallonie-Bruxelles federation.Performing regulary in France and Belgium, they performed at the Festival international en Poitou (France), Festival Varga (France), Festivals de Wallonie (Belgium), Festival Musicorum (Belgium)... The trio is supported by the association Musicabel, affiliate member of Chamber Music for Europe (Brussels) and, since 2019, part of ProQuartet (Paris).

The trio gives his all to interpret and defend the Belgian repertoire: each concert includes one pieceof work of a Belgian composer. This approach allows the promotion of heaps of unsuspected treasures, the contributions of famous composers and creators less known by the general public for their Piano Trio works.

Moreover, very concerned about putting forward today music, the three musicians focus on playing and commissioning contemporary works. By this means, they get enriched with the meeting of composers such as Benoit Mernier, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Jacqueline Fontyn or furthermore Nicolas Bacri.

Booklet for Alchemy