Mirror With Three Faces – Delta Piano Trio

   in Piano International (Sep, 2018)
The Shostakovich is a gutsy performance, magnificent in its grasp and fully in tune with the composer’s many faces. The keening gestures of the second movement are brilliantly achieved via the tightest ensemble, the third movement Passacaglia is hypnotically executed and the macabre dance of death that is the finale moves forward with chilling, inexorable momentum. The piano is superbly recorded, and the balance between the three musicians expertly judged.

While Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio is at least vaguely well-known, the music of Lera Auerbach demands to be heard. Born in Russia, Auerbach emigrated to the States in 1991. Her music is far from unknown – a disc of piano music …