Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser & Yevgeny Sudbin – Tchaikovsky, Schnittke & Babajanian: Works for Piano Trio (2019) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser & Yevgeny Sudbin – Tchaikovsky, Schnittke & Babajanian: Works for Piano Trio (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:12 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Russia, the piano trio is the most prestigious format for the musical homage. It lends a work an elegiac character, which is often made clear in the movement’s title or indications. The Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 pours itself out in a generous Pezzo elegiaco, a passionate meeting of cello and violin. There follow a succession of deliciously inventive variations on a folk theme, appearing one after another like so many matrioshkas. The performers (Vadim Gluzman on violin, Johannes Moser on cello and Yevgeny Sudbin on piano) are at home with this music, which they play with a hot intensity. In the fifth variation, the piano finds sounds which we love, with a sober accompaniment of sustained pedal notes on strings. The musicians dig a little further into this deliciously nostalgic mood with the Trio in F Sharp Minor by Arno Babadjanian. This latter moulds the sound with magnificent grandiloquence. Its lyricism, with folk accents, speaks in a Romantic language, in a taut harmonic environment. We’re holding our breath up until Tango by Alfred Schnittke, arranged for the occasion of this recording for the label Bis by Yevgeny Sudbin. Here, the nostalgia reaches its zenith. But the performers can’t weaken on this piece that demands musicians be at once supple – it is a dance, after all – and robust. And these are qualities shared by all these artists, including Vadim Gluzman, with a charm worthy of David Oïstrakh, the first performer of the Babadjanian’s Trio. – Elsa Siffert

Tracklist:
1. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: I. Pezzo elegiaco (17:57)
2. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: II. Tema. Andante con moto (1:04)
3. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIa. Var. 1 (0:55)
4. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIb. Var. 2, Più mosso (0:35)
5. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIc. Var. 3, Allegro moderato (0:59)
6. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IId. Var. 4, L’istesso tempo (1:15)
7. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIe. Var. 5, L’istesso tempo (0:44)
8. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIf. Var. 6, Tempo di valse (2:28)
9. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIg. Var. 7, Allegro moderato (1:20)
10. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIh. Var. 8, Fuga. Allegro moderato (2:32)
11. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIi. Var. 9, Andante flebile, ma non tanto (3:14)
12. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIj. Var. 10, Tempo di mazurka. Con brio (1:52)
13. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIk. Var. 11, Moderato (2:17)
14. Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, TH 117: IIl. Var. 12 – Coda (11:35)
15. Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor: I. Largo – Allegro espressivo (8:43)
16. Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor: II. Andante (7:00)
17. Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor: III. Allegro vivace (6:00)
18. Life with an Idiot: Tango (Arr. Y. Sudbin for Piano Trio) (2:53)