It´s not just the piano trio which is absolutely beautiful and breathtaking. The players are just out of this world!!! I have their version of Dvorak´s trios and there are moments on where you just want to burst in tears, like on this interpretation. When both things combine, music becomes the most sublime experience on earth!
The VERY BEST performance of this piece that I've heard. Luba's treatment of the piano is superb, playing with perfect tempo throughout. The members of this Trio have managed to capture the essence of Rachmaninoff's emotion at the loss of Tchaikovsky.
This piece, along with the Tchaikovsky trio in A minor, are among the most beautifully sad trios in the repertoire. And Borodin plays it magnificently.
There really is nothing out there to compare with this performance. The playing is super, transcendent, the ensemble and vision constant, and the recording technology only enhanced this. A once in a lifetime achievement.
I'm pretty much in tears all the way through it, it just moves me so. And I always picture Michelle Kwan in 1998 at the U.S. Nationals skating to this, perfection on ice.
Better tempos than some other interpretations. Actually sounds sadder when slightly faster. 1st movement. The waves of sound peaking and falling after 2.30, for instance, have a perfect momentum, here. The changes of tempo are also brilliantly right. Restless, as Dvorak's last two trios in particular.
