The idea for this, the penultimate work in Fauré’s oeuvre, came in 1922 from his publisher Jacques Durand, who had published Ravel’s famous Piano Trio just a few years earlier. Fauré initially did not get beyond sketching the work, and for a while he considered using a clarinet as an alternative to the violin. Only when he went to spend the summer in Annecy-le-Vieux in Savoy did Fauré succeed in writing the Andantino, the unusually extensive, elegiac middle movement of this Trio. The outer movem...