Modest Moussorgsky - Pictures at an exhibition (2001) - Shostakovich Trio

A transcription for piano trio by pianist Gruzman played by the Shostakovich Trio. This is the only known recording of this work in this setting.

Tracklisting:

1. Promenade
2. Gnomus
3. Promenade
4. Le Vieux Château
5. Promenade
6. Le jardin des Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants apres jeux)
7. Bydlo (La charette)
8. Promenade
9. Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques
10. Deux juifs, l'un riche et l'autre pauvre
11. Le marché de Limoges
12. Catacombes (Sepulchrum romanum). Cum mortuis in lingua mortua.
13. La cabane sur des pattes de poule (Baba-Jaga)
14. La Grande Porte de Kiev

Modest Moussorsky - Tableaux d'une exposition

Transcription: Grigory Gruzman, recorded live in Cleveland

The shostakovich trio are:
Mikhaïl Bezverkhny, Violin
Mischa Kats, Cello
Grigory Gruzman, Piano

The Shostakovich Trio

The musicians met in 1985. From their first musical experience together, a deep cohesion was revealed. So they decided to form a trio. And since all three are true products of the Russian tradition, the dicision to name their trio after the composer Dmitri Shostakovich was the result of spontaneous and mutual consent.

The intellectual and emotional complicity between the musicians, coupled with their common esthetic conceptions, have permitted them in a very short space of time to form a trio that is one of the most remarkable of the moment. The Conseil Regional du Centre-France and the French Ministry of Culture have engaged the Shostakovich Trio for their cultural ction programmes.

The Shostakovich Trio has become very popular and much appreciated in some of the most renowned concert halls: The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Concert Hall in Moscow, the Manoel Theatre in Malta, the Wigmore Hall in London and international festivals: Bregenz, Palma de Mallorca, Cervantino de Mexico, Monte Carlo, Jerusalem, Granada, …

This season the Shostakovich Trio has been invited to play in England, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, Malte, Austria, Israel, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, U.S.A., Greece, South Corea,…

In 1994 the Shostakovich Trio recorded a CD for Sony Classical

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The concert of chamber music by the Shostakovich Trio brought to mind the three stars: Cortot, Thibaud and Casals

Mikhaïl Bezverkhny

Born in Saint Petersburg in 1947, he commences his violin studies at the age of 5 at the central musicschool of the conservatory of Saint Petersburg. He was a student of Liubov Segal (student of Leopold Auer) and Jacob Riabinkov. In 1965 he starts his studies at the conservatory of Moscow under Yuri Yankelevich. He equally studied with Maya Glayzamova, Atram Stern and Nahum Latinsky. He is laureate of different international competitions:

* 1967: 2nd prize Wieniawski Competition
* 1969: 2nd prize chamber music competition in München
* 1972: 2nd prize violin competition in Montreal
* 1972: 1st prize chamber music competition in Belgrado
* 1974: 1st prize chamber music competition in Budapest
* 1976: 1st prize Queen Elisabeth Competition Brussels

In 1978 he was barred from leaving the USSR. In February 1990 he settles in Belgium.