Tchaikovsky / Rachmaninov: Trios Lang Lang

• 1 Trio elegiaque No.1 In G Minor For Piano, Violin And Cello 14:57
• 2 1. Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai - Allegro giusto) 19:07
• 3 2. (A) Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto 01:04
• 4 Var. I: L'istesso tempo 00:49
• 5 Var. II: Piu mosso 00:34
• 6 Var. III: Allegro moderato 00:51
• 7 Var. IV: L'istesso tempo 01:09
• 8 Var. V: L'istesso tempo 00:28
• 9 Var. VI: Tempo di valse 02:48
• 10 Var. VII: Allegro moderato 01:18
• 11 Var. VIII: Fuga (Allegro moderato) 02:38
• 12 Var. IX: Andante flebile, ma non tanto 03:02
• 13 Var. X: Tempo di mazurka 01:49
• 14 Var. XI: Moderato 01:58
• 15 2. (B) Variazione finale e Coda (Allegro risoluto e con fuoco - Andante con moto) 11:43
• Total Runtime 01:04:15

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Lang Lang revisits giants of Russia's Romantic musical soul, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, to reveal another side of his prodigious talent--his finesse as a collegial interpreter of chamber music. This release, Lang Lang`s first ever chamber music recording, also features two giants of their instruments: Vadim Repin on violin and Mischa Maisky on cello. Lang Lang could not be in better company to reveal the inexhaustible inventiveness of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50 or the tender consolations of Rachmaninov's Trio élégiaque no. 1 in G-minor, a short early masterpiece composed before Rachmaninov was twenty.

Lang Lang's rare forays into chamber music have been extolled by the press. The critic for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung described his concert experience as "almost like seeing a newborn Lang Lang." Famous for his dynamic, impetuous, hair-raising virtuoso solo turns, Lang Lang unveils a fascinating facet of his musical make-up: he is a team player on the highest possible level.

Tchaikovsky composed the expansive Piano Trio in A minor, "In memory of a great artist," to commemorate the death of his friend and mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein. The only major piece Tchaikovsky composed in 1881, the A minor's unusual form reinvented the genre. Conceived in two long movements, its short variations in the second are colorful evocations of Rubinstein's personality. Before composing it, Tchaikovsky was convinced that piano and strings, given their dissimilar sounds, were incompatible in small ensembles. The completed Trio in A minor happily proved him wrong.

„. . . overall, this is a fine performance by two top-drawer string players who are totally at home in this work. I trust their instincts . . .“ (Jerry Dubins, Fanfare)

„Lang Lang turns in unsurpassably scintillating transcendentalism and mazurka charm.“ (David Nice, BBC Music Magazine)

Lang Lang, piano
Vadim Repin, violin
Mischa Maisky, cello

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