Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaques & Vocalise (Arr. J. Conus for Piano Trio)

Featuring

Ilya Kazantsev
Misha Keylin
Sergey Antonov
Hermitage Piano Trio
Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composition History

Rachmaninoff's first piano trio, Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor, was composed in just five days in 1892, following a severe case of malaria.

Composer Biography

Rachmaninoff studied piano with Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev, and composition with Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in September 2017 at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, with Victor and Marina A. Ledin as producers.

Compositional Technique

The word 'élégiaque' means plaintive, melancholic, and sad, reflecting the brooding and reflective nature of Rachmaninoff's Trio élégiaque No. 1, which is cast in one continuous movement.

Composer Biography

After the 1905 Russian Revolution, Rachmaninoff left Moscow for Dresden, Germany, where he lived for three years before his first tour of the United States.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Rachmaninoff's music is described as the "Russian soul in music"—emotional, hypersensitive, and elegiac, expressing a nature sensitively attuned to beauty.