Gluzman/moser/sudbin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Arno Babajanian: Piano Trios [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.In Russian chamber music, a rather special tradition evolved around the piano trio, with a number of composers turning to the genre to write x91instrumental requiemsx92. First out was Tchaikovsky with his Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, x91a la memoire dx92un grand artistex92, and he was followed by composers such as Rachmaninov, Arensky and Shostakovich. In the case of Tchaikovskyx92s trio, the x91grand artistex92 was the pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, and Tchaikovsky chose the trio genre as he felt that a piece for solo piano would be too lightweight and one with orchestral accompaniment would be too showy. The work is in two movements, a Pezzo elegiaco (x91elegiac piecex92) and a set of variations, and it begins with the cello playing a moving lament which sets the tone for the entire first movement. The theme returns at the end of the second movement in the form of an impassioned funeral march. Seventy years later, when the Armenian composer and pianist Arno Babajanian (1921x9783) wrote his Piano Trio in F sharp minor, he didnx92t give it any subtitle, but therex92s a grandeur and breadth of scale which rivals Tchaikovskyx92s work x96 and the second movement is thoroughly elegiac in character. The trio is Babajanianx92s best-known work, composed in the Romantic style of Rachmaninov, but also rooted in Armenian folk music, melodically as well as rhythmically. Performing the two works are Vadim Gluzman and Yevgeny Sudbin, both with Russian roots, joined by cellist Johannes Moser, and the three close the disc with Sudbinx92s arrangement of a brief Tango by Alfred Schnittke.Piano Trio In A Minor, Op. 50 xc0 Lxe1 Mxe9moire Du2018un Grand ArtistePiano Trio (1952)Tango from the Opera Life with an Idiot (1992)

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 7318599923727

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