Composer: Alexander Alyabyev, Mikhail Glinka, Anton Rubinstein
Performer: Brahms Trio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2020
Size: 667 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Alyabyev: Piano Trio in E flat major in one movement (unfinished)
Alyabyev: Piano Trio in A minor
02. I. Allegro ma non troppo
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Rondo. Allegretto
Glinka: Trio Pathetique in D minor
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Scherzo. Vivacissimo
07. III. Largo
08. IV. Allegro con spirito
Rubinstein: Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, Op. 15, No. 2
09. I. Moderato
10. II. Adagio
11. III. Allegro assai
12. IV. Moderato
The piano trio holds an important place in the history of Russian chamber music and to follow the development of the genre is to accompany the fascinating history of Russian music in the 19th century. Its beginnings can be found with Alexander Alyabiev, a student of John Field, whose unfinished but elegant and vivacious Piano Trio in E flat major is paired with the yearning Romanticism of the Piano Trio in A minor. Mikhail Glinka’s Trio pathétique bears the inscription ‘I have only known love through the sorrow it causes!’, while Anton Rubinstein’s elaborately acrobatic piano writing in his Piano Trio in G minor reminds us of his own virtuosity, and reveals his magnificent skills as a melodist.