Anneleen Lenaerts will release her new trio album French Trios on 23 October, recorded with flautist Adam Walker and violist Timothy Ridout. The album brings together chamber works rooted in the French tradition by Debussy, Ravel, Vierne and Ibert, alongside music by Belgian composer Joseph Jongen, and features several works arranged for flute, viola and harp, including arrangements by Wouter Lenaerts.
The repertoire spans around half a century, from works by Debussy and Vierne dating from the 1890s to Jacques Ibert’s Deux Interludes, composed in 1946. Also included are Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye in an arrangement for the trio, Vierne’s 2 Pièces for Viola and Piano, Op. 5, and Jongen’s 2 Pièces en trio, Op. 80.
Wouter Lenaerts arranged Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and two movements from Ma mère l’Oye for flute, viola and harp, while Ravel’s Sonatine appears in an arrangement by the 20th-century harpist Carlos Salzedo. Anneleen has long explored the possibilities of arrangements and transcriptions for harp, including her own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.
French Trios was recorded in Vienna in June 2025 and March 2026, reflecting the musical understanding the three musicians have developed since their first collaboration in 2019.
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