3x3, Live

The Ravel and Shostakovich might be regular trio fare, but it’s not so often that Weinberg’s intriguing 1945 Trio gets an outing. Gutsy live performances. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: MELCD1002491
Label: Melodiya
Length: 71 minutes

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Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8

Work length12:41

Alexander Buzlov, Aylen Pritchin, Lukas Geniušas

Weinberg: Trio for piano, violin and cello, Op. 24 (1945)

Work length31:41

Alexander Buzlov, Aylen Pritchin, Lukas Geniušas

I. Prelude and Aria

Track length5:34

II. Toccata

Track length4:13

III. Poem

Track length9:52

IV. Finale

Track length12:02

Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Work length27:35

Alexander Buzlov, Aylen Pritchin, Lukas Geniušas

I. Modéré

Track length9:07

II. Pantoum

Track length4:30

III. Passacaille

Track length7:34

IV. Final

Track length6:24

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Firma Melodiya presents the album “3×3”, another release from the series Melodia Apriori. Three young musicians play three piano trios written by three 20th century composers. The names of Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich and Moisey Weinberg are featured on this extraordinary release. Ravel’s Trio written on the eve of World War I sounds like a peculiar counterpoint to Shostakovich’s early Trio No. 1, a piece written in a pronounced romantic manner when the composer was a student of the St. Petersburg Conservatory while the Shostakovich as we know him is presented here only hintingly. Moisey Weinberg, who has been usually referred to as one from Shostakovich’s circle, fled to the USSR from Poland when it was occupied by Nazi Germany and lost almost his entire family there, wrote his piano trio at the end of the Great Patriotic War. Bearing the stamp of the composer’s bright identity without any taint of imitation of Shostakovich, this music breathes true tragedy of despair. All three musicians on this release- Aylen Pritchin, Alexander Buzlov, and Lukas Geniušas- are excellent interpreters and have each won several prizes for their solo works.

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February 2018

The Ravel and Shostakovich might be regular trio fare, but it’s not so often that Weinberg’s intriguing 1945 Trio gets an outing. Gutsy live performances.

3x3, Live

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