Rachmaninov / Tchaikovsky: Piano Trios

Product Description After a successful release of Brahms Piano Trios, Audite present a second SACD with the Trio Testore. It sheds light on a moving concept in Russian chamber music as both Tchaikovsky s and Rachmaninov s works are conceived as dedications and memorials. Tchaikovsky composed his only Piano Trio in memory of Nikolai Rubinstein, his mentor and friend. He paid tribute to Rubinstein s pianistic brilliance with the work s demanding piano part, but integrated it also into the communicative context with two equal partners: symbolically, the virtuoso receives support and stimulation from them. Rachmaninov took this two-movement work and its fundamentally elegiac character as a model when he composed his First Piano Trio. Even at the tender age of 17 he was able to mould essential elements of his style and melodic invention. The history of the dedications of the works determines their individual form and their personal, passionate message. Review ' ... with the sensibility that these players reveal, it comes across with touching sincerity ... Tchaikovsky found an emotional and textural balance here that the Testore tap purposefully and with considerable power and impetus ...' --Geoffrey Norris - Gramophone Awards Issue, September 2014 The Borodin Trio, sensitive as ever in Rachmaninov ... the performance here is exemplary, finding all the nuances of the composer s highly individual sound world. --Barry Forshaw Classical CD Choice, 12th October 2014 'This is as fine a performance of the Tchaikovsky Trio that you ll ever find with these players putting their hearts and souls into the music. The engineers provide a fine recording in the acoustic of the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany the venue for so many fine recordings.' --Bruce Reader, The Classical Reviewer, 14th December 2014