Of course no one would dare suggest that Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998) will one day dethrone his master and mentor Shostakovich, of whom he was a disciple between 1936 and 1941 at the Leningrad Conservatory – where he received his diploma only a few days before being conscripted into the army; there are better ways to start a career as a musician… However, as soon as 1945, Sviridov got back to work and wrote his Piano Quintet and his Trio, two major works from the worthy and skilful composer, presented in this album by the fiery Beethoven Trio Bonn (complemented by Vladimir Babeshko and Artur Chermonov for the Quintet). And fiery they need to be to master this music in which Shostakovich’s signature can be heard as well as an extremely lyrical and melodic personal language, directly inspired by the overly abundant Russian folkloric background. The album ends with the very famous Romance from the orchestral pieceSnowstorm, an almost (wilfully of course) outrageous moment of Russian pathos, evoking both the great symphonists and melodists of the 19th century, Rachmaninoff without a doubt, and again an intrinsically Russian theme, imaginary or real. The version for piano trio was composed by the Beethoven Trio themselves.
Tracklist
Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998)
Piano Trio in A Minor
1 I. Elegy. Allegro moderato 07:21
2 II. Scherzo. Allegro vivo 04:18
3 III. Funeral March. Andante 08:11
4 IV. Idyll. Allegretto 06:49
Piano Quintet in B Minor
5 I. Allegro moderato 06:57
6 II. Presto 03:21
7 III. Molto adagio 07:49
8 IV. Tema con variazioni. Allegro ma non troppo 07:38
The Snowstorm
9 Romance 05:41
Personnel
Beethoven Trio Bonn:
Jinsang Lee, piano
Mikhail Ovrutsky, violin
Grigory Alumyan, cello
Artur Chermonov, violin
Vladimir Babeshko, viola
![Itzhak Perlman - The Complete Warner Recordings 1972-1980 (2015) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2019/12/IpmBmeR.jpg "Itzhak Perlman - The Complete Warner Recordings 1972-1980 (2015) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Pacifica Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries: The Soviet Experience Vol. 1-4 (2011-2013) [24bit FLAC]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2017/07/ntIbtOp.jpg "Pacifica Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries: The Soviet Experience Vol. 1-4 (2011-2013) [24bit FLAC]")
![Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2017/08/GBVruYe.jpg "Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From \"Hamlet\" (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Kim Kashkashian & Lera Auerbach - Arcanum (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2019/07/4LY1DNi.jpg "Kim Kashkashian & Lera Auerbach - Arcanum (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 ‘Leningrad’ (2013/2015) [ProStudioMasters DSF DSD64/2.82MHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2018/04/h2s516x.jpg "Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 ‘Leningrad’ (2013/2015) [ProStudioMasters DSF DSD64/2.82MHz]")
![Glenn Gould - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2015 Remastered Edition) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2017/07/2bHwfbA.jpg "Glenn Gould - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2015 Remastered Edition) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]")
![Dmitri Shostakovich - The Two Violin Sonatas and Rare Chamber Works - Sasha Rozhdestvensky, Jeremy Menuhin... (2016) [HighResAudio FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2017/08/uiOnzDc.jpg "Dmitri Shostakovich - The Two Violin Sonatas and Rare Chamber Works - Sasha Rozhdestvensky, Jeremy Menuhin... (2016) [HighResAudio FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Beethoven Trio Bonn - Alexander Alyabyev (2015) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2018/08/KCWl3Wg.jpg "Beethoven Trio Bonn - Alexander Alyabyev (2015) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]")
![Max Emanuel Cencic - Handel: Ottone, HWV 15 (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2017/11/9uXCAkQ.jpg "Max Emanuel Cencic - Handel: Ottone, HWV 15 (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Choeur Philharmonique d’Ekaterinburg & Andrey Petrenko - Prieres Russes (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2018/05/vwXlfDO.jpg "Choeur Philharmonique d’Ekaterinburg & Andrey Petrenko - Prieres Russes (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")
![Daniel Shafran, Lydia Pecherskaya - Shostakovich, Schubert: Cello Sonatas (1961/2016) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2019/07/Jx4zwDw.jpg "Daniel Shafran, Lydia Pecherskaya - Shostakovich, Schubert: Cello Sonatas (1961/2016) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]")
![Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2006) [nativeDSDmusic DSF DSD64/2.82MHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2018/12/GLVlcl4.jpg "Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2006) [nativeDSDmusic DSF DSD64/2.82MHz]")
![Vladimir Ashkenazy, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (1973/2016) [PrestoClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]](https://getimg.link/images/imgimgimg/uploads/2018/09/ZX3ymX0.jpg "Vladimir Ashkenazy, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (1973/2016) [PrestoClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]")