Aug 23, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min · 13 segments
In two earlier episodes I have referred to Chamber Music as 'Music For Small Spaces'. But if you search more broadly for that term you will come up with very little. If you want music for small groups…
Justine CormackGuestIn late 1914 as World War I commenced, the French composer Maurice Ravel was determined to join the army to help defend France from the invading Germans.
The deadline of enlisting seems to have spurred him on and he wrote to fellow composer Igor Stravinsky, "The idea that I should be leaving at once made me get through five months' work in five weeks.
My trio is finished." Incidentally, Ravel was 39 in 1914 and had been rejected for military service on age and health grounds but was able to overcome objections and spent much of the war as a truck driver serving very close to the front lines.
Here is the final section of Maurice Ravel's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano performed respectively by Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braly.
[outro music]
[outro music][classical music] That was the final section of Maurice Ravel's Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, performed by the violinist Renaud Capuçon, the cellist Gautier Capuçon, and the pianist Frank Braly.
In late 1914 as World War I commenced, the French composer Maurice Ravel was determined to join the army to help defend France from the invading Germans.
The deadline of enlisting seems to have spurred him on and he wrote to fellow composer Igor Stravinsky, "The idea that I should be leaving at once made me get through five months' work in five weeks.
My trio is finished." Incidentally, Ravel was 39 in 1914 and had been rejected for military service on age and health grounds but was able to overcome objections and spent much of the war as a truck driver serving very close to the front lines.
Here is the final section of Maurice Ravel's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano performed respectively by Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braly.
[outro music]
[outro music][classical music] That was the final section of Maurice Ravel's Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, performed by the violinist Renaud Capuçon, the cellist Gautier Capuçon, and the pianist Frank Braly.
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