Rachel Barton Pine’s 25th album on the Cedille label unites her with pianist Orion Weiss and the Pacifica Quartet for French music of the turn-of-the-century and early mid-20th century. As a violinist who adores playing chamber music, but isn’t a member of a string quartet, Pine holds special fondness for the centerpiece work on this program: Ernest Chausson’s Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet. The album also features chamber works by Germaine Tailleferre written between 1913 and 1947, including her String Quartet and three works for violin and piano.

“Listening to her compositions, I was struck by their beautiful quality of sounding simultaneously very familiar, yet unexpected,” says Pine. “Each work we chose grabbed me immediately and continues to grow on me the more time I spend with it.”