{"id":5598,"date":"2019-10-16T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:37:09","slug":"review-russian-romantic-piano-trio-bonanza-this-trio-of-gifted-musicians-cannot-help-but-break-into-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-russian-romantic-piano-trio-bonanza-this-trio-of-gifted-musicians-cannot-help-but-break-into-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Russian Romantic Piano Trio Bonanza &#8220;this trio of gifted musicians cannot help but break into a smile&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereophile.com\/content\/russian-romantic-piano-trio-bonanza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stereophile<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jason Victor Serinus<\/p>\n<p>Romantics rejoice! In an age where ice seems to melt faster than hearts, there are still great musicians who uphold the Russian tradition of romantic music. Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser, and Yevgeny Sudbin may not (yet) have the cachet of David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Sviatoslav Richter, who famously came together with Herbert von Karajan to record Beethoven\u2019s Triple Concerto, but their new SACD of Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, and Arno Babajanian\u2019s sole Piano Trio (BIS-2372) places them firmly in the grand Russian tradition of emotive, give-it-all-you\u2019ve-got musicianship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Before recording\u2014on a Stradivarius violin, a Guarneri cello, and Steinway D\u2014these artists worked out their balances and dynamic swells to perfection; each knew when to rise to prominence or fall back into ensemble mode. When the trios really gets going, as in Tchaikovsky\u2019s extremely long, overmilked final variation and coda, all three manage to let loose in proportion while maintaining beauty of tone.<\/p>\n<p>They sound absolutely right in the elegiac 17+-minute opening of Tchaikovsky\u2019s 48-minute trio. As strong a player as he is, Gluzman manages to sound fragile at first, as Moser plumbs the depths. Without hesitation, they get to the heart of music dedicated to Tchaikovsky\u2019s late mentor, pianist\/conductor\/orchestral director Nikolai Rubinstein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereophile.com\/content\/russian-romantic-piano-trio-bonanza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stereophile By Jason Victor Serinus Romantics rejoice! In an age where ice seems to melt faster than hearts, there are still great musicians who uphold the Russian tradition of romantic music. Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser, and Yevgeny Sudbin may not (yet) have the cachet of David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Sviatoslav Richter, who famously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-russian-romantic-piano-trio-bonanza-this-trio-of-gifted-musicians-cannot-help-but-break-into-a-smile\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3636,3633,4033,3910,4175,3868,3612,3926,4179],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-album","tag-cello","tag-chamber-music","tag-classical","tag-johannes-moser","tag-release","tag-review","tag-tchaikovsky","tag-trio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}