Richard Green has a habit of making classical compositions feel immediate. Based between Milan and London, he’s spent the last few years building a neoclassical trilogy – composed at home, recorded in Italy, and performed by some of the country’s best players. “A Story,” featuring Irene Veneziano on piano and Archimia on strings, is the first track off the second chapter, and it plays like a conversation that never quite settles.
The piece opens with piano and strings trading lines: neither leading, both listening. It’s light on its feet, not rushed. Melodic ideas rise up, retreat, return. Nothing feels rigid or over-rehearsed. The dynamic shifts are subtle, more like glances than gestures.
There’s a quiet theatricality to the track that brings to mind the score of a family drama or coming-of-age film: the kind of thing you’d hear over a scene of discovery, or a late-night kitchen talk between generations. The jazz and blues inflections are barely there, but they add color, especially in the second half where the strings grow more expressive and the piano less predictable.
It’s not a showpiece. “A Story” works because it doesn’t try too hard. It lets its structure breathe, lets the musicians bring warmth and unpredictability. It’s one of the tracks that makes you want to hear the full trilogy, just to see where it all goes.
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