{"product_id":"1074703","title":"Gluzman\/moser\/sudbin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky \u0026 Arno Babajanian: Piano Trios [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Russian chamber music, a rather special tradition evolved around the piano trio, with a number of composers turning to the genre to write \\x91instrumental requiems\\x92. First out was Tchaikovsky with his Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, \\x91a la memoire d\\x92un grand artiste\\x92, and he was followed by composers such as Rachmaninov, Arensky and Shostakovich. In the case of Tchaikovsky\\x92s trio, the \\x91grand artiste\\x92 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 piece\\x92) 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 (1921\\x9783) wrote his Piano Trio in F sharp minor, he didn\\x92t give it any subtitle, but there\\x92s a grandeur and breadth of scale which rivals Tchaikovsky\\x92s work \\x96 and the second movement is thoroughly elegiac in character. The trio is Babajanian\\x92s 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 Sudbin\\x92s arrangement of a brief Tango by Alfred Schnittke.Piano Trio In A Minor, Op. 50 \\xc0 L\\xe1 M\\xe9moire D\\u2018un Grand Artiste\u003cbr\u003ePiano Trio (1952)\u003cbr\u003eTango from the Opera Life with an Idiot (1992)","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55449495175553,"sku":"1074703","price":17.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41udS52R9GL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773952892","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1074703","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}