ALYABIEV • GLINKA • RUBINSTEIN 5 1 3 E E Alexander ALYABIEV 6 I
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N N A A X X The piano trio holds an important place in the history of Russian chamber music and to O O S S follow the development of the genre is to accompany the fascinating history of Russian music in the 19th century. Its beginnings can be found with Alexander Alyabiev, a student of John Field, whose unfinished but elegant and vivacious Piano Trio in E flat major is paired H H with the yearning Romanticism of the Piano Trio in A minor . Mikhail Glinka’s Trio pathé - 8.574112 I I S S tique bears the inscription ‘I have only known love through the sorrow it causes!’, while T T DDD Anton Rubinstein’s elaborately acrobatic piano writing in his Piano Trio in G minor reminds O O us of his own virtuosity, and reveals his magnificent skills as a melodist. R R Playing Time Y Y 7 76:00 O O History of the Russian Piano Trio • 1 F F 4 7 T T 3 H H ALYABIEV • GLINKA • RUBINSTEIN 5 1 3 E E Alexander ALYABIEV 6 I. Allegro moderato 5:27 4 R R 1 (1787 –1851) 7 II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo 3:26 1 1 U U III. Largo 4:44 Piano Trio in E flat major 8 2 S S IV. Allegro con spirito 2:11 7 S S (1815) 10:04 I I A A Piano Trio in A minor (1834) 18:43 2 Anton RUBINSTEIN (1829 –1894) 6 N N 3 I. Allegro ma non troppo 7:10 Piano Trio in G minor, B M w ൿ o P P II. Adagio 3:44 4 (1851) 30:54 a Op. 15, No. 2 w o 9 & d k I I e III. Rondo: Allegretto 7:47 l I. Moderato 9:32 Ꭿ w A A 0 e i n t . n N N II. Adagio 8:46 2 G ! n Mikhail GLINKA (1804 –1857) o 0 e t 2 O O e a III. Allegro assai 4:20 r 0 @ s Trio pathétique in D minor (1832) m x i N a n T T IV. Moderato 8:09 o n a (arr. Jan Hřímalý, 1844 –1915, E y x s R R n o . for piano trio) 15:48 g s c I I l R i O O o s h i g m h • • t The Brahms Trio s 1 1 ( Nikolai Sachenko, Violin • Kirill Rodin, Cello E u r C Natalia Rubinstein, Piano o p e 15 8 2 4 9 @ ) 8 8 Recorded: 21–22 January – and 3–4 June – 2017 and 18–19 January 2018 – at the Large Hall of L M t . d 5 the Moscow Conservatory, Russia • Engineer and editor: Mikhail Spassky • Booklet notes: Ivan Moody 5 7 7 4 P1ubl4ishers: Moscow: Muzgiz (Soviet State Music Publishing House). First edition. Editor – Boris Dobrokhotov 4 Y 1 – ; Moscow: P. Jurgenson. 1892. Second edition, with the alternate violin and cello parts arranged by Jan 1 1 5 8 9 @ 1 2 Hřímalý – ; Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. 1855. Second edition revised by the composer – 2 Cover photo of The Brahms Trio by Emil Matveev K.