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Trio Arriaga

Description:

Hybrid series of SACD and MQA-CD by high quality sound label Eudora! Two piano trios created out of deep grief caused by the death of a loved one! The latest in a series of hybrid SACD and MQA-CD recordings by the Spanish high-quality sound label Eudora. This album features two piano trios by two great Russian composers whose artistic creativity was inspired by the deep grief caused by the death of a loved one. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio, also known as “In Memory of a Great Artist,” was composed as a memorial to Nikolai Rubinshtein, to whom he had a very close relationship and to whom he dedicated his own works. It is a long and technical work dominated by a solemn atmosphere. Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2, on the other hand, is dedicated to his close friend and advisor, the musicologist and critic Ivan Sorelczynski. Shostakovich was said to be filled with unspeakable grief at the news of his p