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Sunday Chamber Music: Beaux Arts Trio
Members of the Beaux Arts Chamber Ensemble present a profound and exciting concert of piano trios. These veteran artists will bring the music to life through their passion, dynamism, and virtuosity.
An Evening of Russian Trios
Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Sergei Rachmaninoff
Trio pathétique in D minor Mikhail Glinka
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 Anton Arensky
About the Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colors.
Read More ››Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (June 1, 1804 – 15 February 15, 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His compositions were an important influence on other Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who produced a distinctive Russian style of music.
Read More ››Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Born into an affluent, music-loving family in Novgorod, Russia, Arensky was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his mother and father, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, after which he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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