Piano Trio No.1, Fantasy-trio, op.662 - violin

Composer's note: In March 1956 I decided to write a piano trio during Brighton Grammar School's Easter holidays. I completed a first movement (Allegro) and jotted some ideas down for a slow movement and a scherzo. Seven years later Philip Pfaff of Chappells Educational Music published 'Burlesca' for piano and violin and 'Party Pieces' for piano. I also showed him the unfinished trio and he decided to publish the completed first movement under the title of 'Fantasy-Allegro'. He was interested in the slow movement but felt that it needed a lot more work. He returned it to me with some written observations, along with the scherzo fragment. This turned out to be fortuitous because in 1964 Chappell's Music of Bond Street burnt down and most of the manuscripts were lost! In 2014 I rather extraordinarily received an inquiry for the 'Fantasy-Allegro'. This caused me to dig out the ancient sketches and, after this immense gap of nearly 60 years I set about extending the first movement (Allegro), rewriting the second movement (Andante con moto) and reconstructing the third (Scherzando), giving the completed work the name 'Fantasy-Trio, Piano Trio no. 1'' and the opus number 662.