Title: Sunny and Amiable
Product review: I am so pleased to have gotten this CD, with its sunny warmth and amiable strength. Unlike Rubinstein's piano concertos, which are easily appreciable as models for Tschaikovsky, these Trios seem to occupy a Mendelssohnian orbit. Though not at the level of Fanny's brother, they are certainly a lot better than Fanny's works, just as a sort of yardstick. The performances don't try to scare up any depths from the music, but are bracing and fast-moving, slightly like a score for some silent movie never made. Perhaps a movie about a romantic, glittering Russia, very correctly European, but oddly monumental in a subtly put-on salon way. Pretty ravishing experience, all the same.
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