The chamber music of Charles-Marie Widor displays a melodic elegance that is characteristically French. There is an appealing delicacy of texture and colour, though a sense of vigour infuses much of the music, and in the passages of power there emerges a romantic fullness of sonority. Widor’s writing for the keyboard shows considerable virtuosity and harmonic richness. The Trio in B flat, probably the earliest of his published chamber works, was composed in 1875. It is generously proportioned, with a great sense of vitality and confidence. The Quintet dates from 1890, and is a work that is richly romantic in style and gesture, with a particularly luxuriant part for the piano.