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Rachmaninoff - The Elegiaque Piano Trios
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About Rachmaninoff - The Elegiaque Piano Trios
Tavros Records announces the release of an exciting CD recording - Rachmaninoff's Elegiaque Piano Trios, performed by Korean pianist Yung Wook Yoo, Russian violinist Julia Sakharova, and from Iceland, cellist Margret Arnadottir. The CD is unusual for its intense subject material. Rachmaninoff was 20 years old when Tchaikovsky died of cholera, and the news plunged him into an anguish that he could only express in a way he knew how - by writing music. The D-minor Trio Élégaique, an elegy to Tchaikovsky, is an expression of that grief. Pianist Yung Wook Yoo, who in 1998 won the Grand Prize and Gold Medal of the XIII Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, has embarked on a concert career that now takes him around the world. For a recent solo recital in Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, Washington Post reviewer Ronald Broun wrote; "Yoo has a big technique that lets his imagination roam free " Of his New York debut, New York Times reviewer Allan Kozinn wrote, " (Yoo) is a mature player with interesting ideas and the means to convey them not content to dazzle his listeners with speed and volume, but sought ways to bring out the music hidden within the gymnastics." Violinist Julia Sakharova, a scholarship student at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, has won awards in this country and in her native Russia for her passionate playing. A review in the French publication, "L'Alsace," describes "an incredible temperament, very fine sensitivity, remarkable colors." Cellist Margret Arnadottir, of Reykjavik, Iceland, is a student at The Juilliard School, and has appeared as soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The Tavros recording emphasizes her ability for passionate, insightful interpretation. The Rachmaninoff Elegiaque Piano Trios is a 64-minute CD containing Piano Trio Elegiaque in D minor, Op. 9, and Piano Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G minor.
