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This being Rachmaninov, the main burden in both trios falls to the pianist; such is Trifonov's artistry that even with his dazzling technique, and without ever selling the emotional intensity... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Feb 2017
Catalogue No: 4796979
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 67 minutes

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June 2017

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Rachmaninoff: Preghiera (Arr. by Fritz Kreisler from Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, 2nd Movement)

Work length5:29

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Recorded: 2015-05-03
Recording Venue: Trifolion, Echternach

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

Work length49:33

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello)
Recorded: 2015-05-03
Recording Venue: Trifolion, Echternach

I. Moderato

Track length20:36

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II. Quasi variazione

Track length20:34

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III. Allegro risoluto

Track length8:23

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

Work length12:01

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello)
Recorded: 2015-05-03
Recording Venue: Trifolion, Echternach

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“This was a performance of a lifetime” LA Times

A "dream team" trio of interpreters for these deeply emotional masterpieces of Russian Romanticism.

Gidon Kremer is celebrating his 70th birthday on (February 27th, 2017) with a special chamber music program together with outstanding young pianist Daniil Trifonov and renowned cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, both of whom he personally chose for this recording.

It is an album full of correlations and a clear underlying conception. Neither Gidon Kremer nor his musical confederates care about brilliant effects; their concern is always to unveil the truths and messages hidden in the music. “To me”, Kremer explains, “being an artist has always been a calling”. But, he emphasizes, “I don’t want this by any means to sound emotive, because I don’t consider myself important. The music is a source from which I draw energy. I try to convey this energy – with notes, with my repertoire, with my choice of musicians. I also try to go my own way and to find companions – interlocutors – who can help me, and with whom I can converse in the language of music”

He found such companions in Daniil Trifonov and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė: All three are connected by deep bonds of friendship and an intensive partnership on the concert stage.

For Daniil Trifonov this is another discographic chapter, which he dedicates to his illustrious pianist-composer idol, Rachmaninov, while honouring his friend and mentor, Gidon Kremer. Dirvanauskaitė is a renowned solo cellist in the field of chamber music and has performed with Kremer numerous times as principal cellist of the Kremerata Baltica.

Rachmaninov's two Piano Trios, both bearing the subtitle "Elegiaque" (elegiac), are dark, passionate works, composed under the influence of Tchaikovsky; the first is a short, one-movement piece rich in typically Slavic sentimentality, the second was written as a personal memorial to Tchaikovsky himself, alternately celebrating the life and grieving the loss of the great Russian composer of whom Rachmaninov said "Of all the people and artists whom I have had occasion to meet, Tchaikovsky was the most enchanting. His delicacy of spirit was unique."

Included as a special bonus: Preghiera (Prayer), Fritz Kreisler's touching transcription for violin and piano of the famous theme from Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto.

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June 2017

This being Rachmaninov, the main burden in both trios falls to the pianist; such is Trifonov's artistry that even with his dazzling technique, and without ever selling the emotional intensity of the music short, he never overshadows his colleagues, who in turn realise every colour and expressive import of their parts.

May 2017

This is a fascinating disc

Classical Ear 10th February 2017

[Trifonov's] multi-perspectival piano playing – flexible, imaginative and visited by a thousand or more different grades of dynamic inflection – provides nourishing food for musical thought. Gidon Kremer and Giedré Dirvanauskaité are of a like mind.

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