With Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Savery attains a new synthesis of the emotional expression of "Classical-Romantic" music with the energetic drive of rock and jazz. In a no-man's land between tonality and atonality, gestural suppleness and insistent pulsing, the three instruments express themselves in a dramatic yet balanced interaction where the music moves through a rich tapestry of idioms from the sombre, disquieting and painful to the questing, singing and inward. Rhythmic energy and buoyancy combine with melodic sensitivity and expressive sonority. Savery's dualistic insight is condensed in dynamic integration.