Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32: II. Scherzo: Allegro molto
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Russian: Антон Степанович Аренский) (July 12, 18… Read Full Bio ↴Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Russian: Антон Степанович Аренский) (July 12, 1861 – February 25, 1906), was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his father and mother, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov.
In 1895 Arensky returned to Saint Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.
Arensky died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in in Perkijarvi, Finland. It is alleged that drinking and gambling undermined his health.
Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his father and mother, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov.
In 1895 Arensky returned to Saint Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.
Arensky died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in in Perkijarvi, Finland. It is alleged that drinking and gambling undermined his health.
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Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 32: II. Scherzo: Allegro molto
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Julius Trenkler
The first movement warmed my heart with so much love the first 11 minutes. Then, those final bars hit me deep. The uplifting melody was given new context, and it felt like it was yearning to be what it used to. The second and third movement almost seemed like filler compared to the emotions that drove me over in the finale. The reprise of the first theme killed me. For the third time ever listening to classical music, I cried.
Rick Rozoff
This is a remarkable, deeply affecting report. Please accept my warmest gratitude.
Abe Shahrodi
I love piano trio's because the three instruments cover a wide spectrum of tonal colors, particularly the Russian trios such as this one which have beautiful and complex melodic structure. Arensky was a talented composer who for some period was wistful for Tchaikovsky's music and then realizing Tchaikovsky's genius were beyond competition, turned into an admirer and follower. Arensky's music is a joy to listen to, especially this trio and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Op. 46.
Salim Yusufji
Which Russian trios would you recommend? I haven't heard many, outside of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.
Abe Shahrodi
Try Borodin, Glinka, Catoire, Rimsky-Korsakov, Taneyev, Shostakovich, Grechaninov, Khachaturian, Gnessin, Napravnik, Rubinstein, Cui (flute instead of cello), Roslavets, Alabieff, Bortkiewicz, Tcherepnin, etc
Salim Yusufji
@Abe Shahrodi Thank you. Shostakovich's trios are familiar, and one by Rimsky-Korsakov (in C minor). Most of the others have been just names to me till now, some not even that. Will get started.
Gérard Begni
@Salim Yusufji You should listen to Taneiev's, and in a quite another style, the two by Chostakovitch. The first one is short and expressionist, the second one has a fklavor of his own within a more conventional structure. Thiose by Roslavets are quite special. Roslavets was a very progressive composer prosecuted by the Stalinitsts, but his trios are a bit less advanced than his piano music, where he pushes Scriabin's language to incredible limits.
Aaron
@Salim Yusufji Sabaneyev. His op. 20 is one of my favorite trios
Phil Homes
The Arensky first trio is magnificant. Arensky, with the best will in the world was second rate, but with this trio he got something right and produced one of the nineteenth century's best pieces. It is deservidly played everywhere.
punchaloo
+Phil Homes I just can't see him as "second rate", not with his jewels (String quartet and quintet). But I see where you are coming from.