Trio Anima Mundi - English Piano Trios

Of the five English composers featured, only two are really known at all � Coleridge-Taylor for Hiawatha and Boughton for The Immortal Hour � but all wrote wonderful music in Romantic style � rather under the shadow of Elgar, Delius, other prominent figures. Rosalind Ellicott had much success and performances in the 1880s before moving from orchestral to chamber music; Forrester was less prolific, concentrating on his teaching career, but has a fine impressionist voice. Warner was very well known as a violist and member of the London String Quartet; he was very busy as a composer with several chamber works, two operas and over a hundred songs to his name. The Trio featured here won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize.