Rachmaninov: Piano Trios

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Release Date: 29th Jul 2013
Catalogue No: CDH55431
Label: Helios
Length: 75 minutes

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Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor, Op. post.

Work length12:44

$2.05

$2.50

The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio

Rachmaninoff: Two Pieces for cello and piano, Op 2

Work length10:21

$2.00

$2.50

Natalia Savinova (cello), Viktor Yampolsky (piano)
The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio

I. Prélude

Track length3:55

$1.00

$1.25

II. Danse orientale

Track length6:26

$1.00

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Rachmaninoff: Two Pieces for violin and piano, Op 6

Work length10:11

$2.00

$2.50

Mikhail Tsinman (violin), Viktor Yampolsky (piano)
The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio

I. Romance

Track length5:01

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II. Danses tziganes 'Danse hongroise'

Track length5:10

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Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9

Work length41:54

Album only

The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio

I. Moderato

Track length17:20

Album only

II. Quasi variazione

Track length17:22

Album only

III. Allegro risoluto

Track length7:12

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$1.85

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With the exception of the Cello Sonata, which was written in 1901 following his Second Suite for two pianos and Second Piano Concerto, all of Rachmaninov’s chamber music comes from the earliest part of his career. This body of work comprises the four compositions on this disc, together with two unfinished string quartets and also two Romances.

The early completed chamber works of Rachmaninov make a fascinating group. They were composed in the two years up to December 1893. All of this music, therefore, was written before the composer was twenty-one, yet it is wholly characteristic and by no means immature.

The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio show great insight into the composer and their performances bring depth to the works.

This recording includes Trio élégiaque No 2 which Rachmaninov started to write on the evening of Tchaikovsky’s death on 25 October 1893 and completed on 15 December. Rachmaninov was deeply shocked and distressed at the news of Tchaikovsky’s death and the piece was written to the memory of him.

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Recommended

Uniformly fine, sensitive and idiomatic playing and sound that alternately caresses and thunders as the music requires, this disc is a bargain … of all
these fine works it would be impossible to imagine more satisfying performances than these… altogether a feast for the ears

Strongly recommended

Performances characterised by admirable technical fluency and innate musical quality

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