After their critically and publicly acclaimed recording of the complete Beethoven trios in 2020, the Trio Sōra plunges into the romanticism of Johannes Brahms. The album blends three great pillars of the trio repertoire with a more rarely performed work, the Op.40 trio originally written for horn, and transcribed for cello by Brahms himself.
‘A bird that sings as it takes flight’ – or to put it more succinctly: Sōra! Native American by origin, but also meaning ‘sky’ in Japanese, this poetic name that travels the world and sings in every language also makes us think of the word ‘sisters’ (sorority, from Latin soror), and is therefore a perfect fit for a trio of young women founded in 2015. It was in 2022 that the current line-up was born, when Fanny Fheodoroff, a Viennese violinist who graduated from The Juilliard School, joined pianist Pauline Chenais and cellist Angèle Legasa, who have been friends with shared affinities ever since studying together at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM). They resolutely turned their gaze and their musical dreams in the same direction: their trio, and nothing else. This was far from being the easy option, but for them a trio, like a string quartet, is worth spending a lifetime on! So they plunged into the adventure, devoting themselves to it, giving themselves the means of success right from the start, driven by an extraordinary strength and energy.
