The Sitkovetsky Piano Trio – Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Wu Qian (piano), Leonard Elschenbroich, (cello) – in Mendelssohn’s famous D minor trio, the second of British composer David Matthews’s three piano trios and Tchaikovsky’s trio composed in Rome at the end of 1881 ‘in memory of a great artist’, his friend Nikolai Rubinstein, who had died earlier that year. |
