Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Trio Rachmaninoff de Montreal
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Atma
Catalogue: ACD22271
Release: 2004
Size: 299 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 ‘In Memory of a Great Artist’
01. I. Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai – Allegro giusto – In tempo molto sostenuto – Animato – L’istesso tempo
02. Adagio con duolo e ben sostenuto – Moderato assai – Allegro giusto – In tempo molto sostenuto – Animato
03. II. Tema con Variazioni: Tema (Andante con moto)
04. Variation I
05. Variation II
06. Variation III
07. Variation IV
08. Variation V
09. Variation VI
10. Variation VII
11. Variation VII
12. Variation IX
13. Variation X
14. Variation XI
15. Variazione finale: Allegro risoluto e con fuoco
16. Coda: Andante con moto – Lugubre
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
17. I. Andante
18. II. Allegro non troppo
19. III. Largo
20. IV. Allegretto
There is a tradition among Russian composers to write an elegiac trio in memory of a departed friend. It is Tchaikovsky who first introduced this tradition with his grandiose trio in A minor dedicated to Nikolay Rubinstein. Dmitry Shostakovich carried this tradition into the twentieth century with his Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, dedicated to the memory of his closest friend the musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky. These are the two telling works performed here in their premiere recording by the Rachmaninoff Trio de Montréal