Piano Trios By Rachmaninov And Tchaikovsky
) | Label: AUDITE Catalog: AUD92691 Format: Hybrid SACD Trio TestoreComposed by: Rachmaninov; Tchaikovsky Audite’s second SACD release with the Trio Testore sheds light on a special side of Russian chamber music: the personal, passionate works for piano trio, both conceived as dedications and memorials, by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. + Tchaikovsky composed his only Piano Trio in memory of his mentor and friend Nikolai Rubinstein, paying tribute to Rubinstein's pianistic brilliance in the work's demanding piano part. + Rachmaninov took this two-movement work and its fundamentally elegiac character as a model when he composed his First Piano Trio at the age of seventeen.  Price: $28.98 |