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Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 2 / Trio RoVerde
Brilliant Classics

Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 2 / Trio RoVerde

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Details

Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Artist
Trio Roverde
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Sep 22, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96563
UPC
5028421965635

About

As a young man, fresh from his first real success as a composer with the opera Aleko, Rachmaninoff was on his way to visit his mentor Tchaikovsky when he saw a crowd gathered outside. The news of Tchaikovsky’s death sent him into a tailspin, and he passed the next few weeks alone, walking and writing this magnificent ‘Trio Elegiaque’ in memory of Tchaikovsky. Although the Trio is an early work it bears the unmistakable imprint of Rachmaninoff’s musical personality.

No understanding of Rachmaninoff is complete without the Trio, and the anniversary year of 2023, 150 years since his birth, Brilliant Classics has produced a magnificent new recording made by the established international collective Trio RoVerde. The trio’s pianist is Ekaterina Litvintseva, ‘the Arctic Circle Pianist’ now resident in Germany, who has several highly praised recordings on Brilliant Classics to her name: ‘Ekaterina Litvintseva has been amassing a distinguished discography – and this…exhibits the combination of sensitivity and self-assurance that have marked her playing up until now.’

Alongside the Trio here are two complementary sets of salon pieces by the young Rachmaninoff, dating from his years as a prodigious student but already infused with the potent strain of yearning Romanticism that would carry his name far and wide: Two Pieces Op. 2 for cello and piano, and two Morceaux de salon Op. 6 for violin and piano.

REVIEW:

The young trio RoVerde documents a live performance of the Trio élégiaque in Studio 150 (Amsterdam) with this album. The interpretation makes a very rounded, well-formed and mature impression.

-- Neue Musikalische Zeitung

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Moderato - Allegro vivace 19:29
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Moderato - Allegro vivace
    Duration
    19:29
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  2. 2 II. Quasi variazione 19:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Quasi variazione
    Duration
    19:43
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  3. 3 III. Allegro risoluto 08:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro risoluto
    Duration
    08:02
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  4. 4 Lied 02:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    Lied
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  5. 5 No. 1. Prelude 03:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. Prelude
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  6. 6 No. 2. Danse orientale 05:26
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. Danse orientale
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  7. 7 No. 1. Romance 05:42
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Romance
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  8. 8 No. 2. Hungarian Dance 05:25
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Hungarian Dance
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde