Rachmaninoff / Makhtin / Wurtz: Piano Trio in a Minor 50
Rachmaninoff / Makhtin / Wurtz: Piano Trio in a Minor 50
Format: CD
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Artist: Rachmaninoff / Makhtin / Wurtz
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421956329
Genre: Classical
A classic pairing: two masterpieces of Russian chamber music in a new recording by three distinguished interpreters of Romantic-era repertoire. It was writing for this combination of instruments in the unlikely context of the slow movement of his Second Piano Concerto that seems finally to have convinced Tchaikovsky he could turn to the genre of piano trio proper and overcome his previous antipathy to it. In fact, following the death of the pianist Nikolai Rubinstein in March 1881, the Piano Trio was composed within less than a year, and with unusual fluency. It's unconventional format - a sonata-form movement followed by an extended theme and variations - takes as it's model Beethoven's final sonata Op.111. The emotional intensity of the first movement is dispelled by the lighter mood of the second, which may represent personal memories of Rubinstein, including visiting an amusement park and attending a ball, and the charmingly lopsided theme is apparently based on a folk melody he had heard in Rubinstein's company. On the day of Tchaikovsky's death in October 1893, Rachmaninoff began work on a Trio élégiaque in D minor in his memory. He later composed a much more extended trio in homage to Tchaikovsky's example, but this single movement is no less impassioned and accomplished in it's way. Both trios have attracted countless great interpreters down the decades, to whose number may now be added the Russian pairing of Dmitri Makhtin and Alexander Kniazev, with the Hungarian pianist Klára Würtz, who has made many admired recordings for Brilliant Classics. Together they form a partnership of deep understanding and sympathy.
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