A favoured genre for which the two composers gave free rein to an eminently romantic lyricism, the trios on the programme for this concert are the second attempt for this group, both for the violinist Lalo and the pianist Chaminade. These trios are both distinguished, not only by their frenzied nature, but by a powerful counterpoint density, an extreme harmonic tension and the genuinely orchestral treatment of the instrumental writing. The considerable sonic power and some passages that cannot but recall the writing of Brahms are part of the prerogatives of two works that, furthermore, never renounce an entirely French form of clarity and elegance.