Rachmaninov: Piano Trios – Lise de la Salle

   in Piano International (May, 2017)
Following her early recording of a selection of Études-Tableaux and a more recent complete Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Lise de la Salle continues with Rachmaninov’s Piano Trios. Time was when the French affected to despise Rachmaninov, seeing him as a salon figure of excessive emotionalism in contrast to their much vaunted virtues of clarity and taste. Today such an attitude, tinged with snobbery, has altered dramatically and Rachmaninov is in the repertoires of many French musicians – a necessary change of heart and mind.

The Trio Elégiaque No 2 in D minor is a sizeable alternative to the earlier and slighter work in G minor …