Piano Trios

Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio is really something! How can the listener to be kept agog for a full 46 minutes, then feel the return of the initial theme at the end of the last movement for what it is: The end of a grandiose arch spanning the whole cosmos? Tempo proportions, phrasing and many other things are important here. The Abegg Trio went to the trouble of referring to the original manuscript and getting scientific he to check these proportions and to perform them faithfully just as Tchaikovsky intended them. Those who know the work are in for a surprise...