{"product_id":"1276832","title":"Sitkovetsky Trio - Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns: 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 1892, when Camille Saint-Sa\\xebns started on his Piano Trio No. 2, almost 30 years had passed since his first, widely celebrated work in the genre, his Op. 18. In the meantime the composer had come to be regarded as hopelessly old-fashioned by many of his colleagues. In writing the trio, Saint-Sa\\xebns remained true to his principles as a composer, striving for balance and clarity and avoiding the chromaticism that had become so prevalent in the wake of Wagner. It is nevertheless an unexpectedly personal work, cast, in the unusual form of a symmetrical arch in five parts: two substantial and dramatic Allegros frame three shorter movements, without a proper scherzo or a true slow movement. Some 20 years later, shortly before the outbreak of World War I, Maurice Ravel set about composing his own piano trio, in spite of his conviction that the percussive sound of the piano and the sustained singing of the string instruments were fundamentally incompatible. According to Ravel, only Saint-Sa\\xebns \\x96who he admired greatly \\x96 had managed to solve this problem. If Saint-Sa\\xebns was an inspiration to Ravel when composing his Piano Trio in A minor, there were also other influences: the work was written during a stay in the Basque country where Ravel was born and the theme that opens the first movement displays what he himself called \\x91a Basque colour\\x92, employing the characteristic rhythms of the zortziko. The two works are here performed by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who have previously won great acclaim for their recordings of Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Dvo?\\xe1k.Piano Trio in A minor\u003cbr\u003ePiano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 92\u003cbr\u003eV. Allegro","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55795018891649,"sku":"1276832","price":17.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41pTimLGBzL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781205945","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1276832","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}