An original coupling of quasi-contemporary Russian chamber works, contrasting a master with one of his former students and an admirer of Tchaikovsky: or, in other words, the nationalists with the cosmopolitan new generation. Both trios, in minor mode, lie within the splendour of a waning Romanticism in which the keyboard is king, with a nod to Brahms from the composer of ‘Scheherazade’, the Slavic lyric tradition for Arensky.
September 2012
“[The Kinsky Trio Prague is] unfailingly elegant in both works … Balances are ideal and the individual instruments have been captured with warmth and detail.”
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