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Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, Op.67

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Life and death in Istanbul: Maisky family trio plays Mahler, Shostakovich and Schumann

By Jane Shuttleworth, 04 June 2018

Youthful Mahler, earth-shattering Shostatovich and life-affirming Schumann, played by The Maisky Trio and Maxim Rysanov at the Istanbul Music Festival.

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London

Majoring in the minor: Jansen, Maisky and Argerich at the Barbican

By Matthew Rye, 06 February 2018

Three musicians at the top of their game – Martha Argerich, Janine Jansen and Misha Maisky – collaborated in a celebration of the joy of music-making that teased, astonished and ultimately stirred the emotions.

*****

London

Bitterness and lamentation: Shostakovich and Messiaen at St John's Smith Square

By Elisabeth Schwarz, 14 November 2017

James Ehnes, Steven Osborne and Alban Gerhardt captured the lamentations of Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio before they were joined by clarinettist Jean Johnson for Messiaen's quartet at St John’s Smith Square.

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Evanston

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio brings warmth to Northwestern’s Winter Chamber Music Festival

By Sam Jacobson, 13 January 2017

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio presented superb performances of the seminal piano trios of Brahms and Shostakovich, prefaced by a newly commissioned work from Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

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London

Disappointing Russian fare from the Razumovsky Ensemble

By Mark Pullinger, 15 October 2015

After a lively appetizer of Stravinsky, the main course of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky piano trios fail to impress at Wigmore Hall.

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Cleveland

Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera highlights ChamberFest Cleveland concert

By Timothy Robson, 28 June 2014

The penultimate concert for the 2014 season featured new choreography for Tan's ritualistic work, as well as a brilliant performances of percussion works and Shostakovich's second Piano Trio.

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London

Quartet for the End of Time at Queen Elizabeth Hall

By Frances Wilson, 10 May 2013

The fascinating Rest is Noise festival at Southbank Centre has now reached its mid-point, with the focus on music created out of oppression and war. In Friday night’s chamber concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall two pieces written in the most straitened circumstances during the Second World War were presented: Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio, a haunting lament for the tragic victims of the war and conflict in general, and Messiaen’s extraordinary Quatuor pour la fin du temps (“Quartet for the End of Time”), composed and premièred in a German prisoner of war camp.

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London

London Mozart Trio play Brahms, Shostakovich and Schubert at very short notice

By Ken Ward, 13 November 2011

The scheduled programme had included Trios by Debussy and Chaminade, and I’d done my homework so that at least I’d have some idea about what was what. But very unfortunately the Fiorini Trio had had to cancel at very short notice - so it was extraordinary that the concert took place at all, thanks to the London Mozart Trio standing in.

Fort Worth

Chamber Music Takes Flight: Di Wu and Nadine Asin at the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth

By Bachtrack reviewer, 22 October 2011

For the second concert of its 2011-12 series, the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth featured pianist Di Wu and flutist Nadine Asin in works by J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Haydn and Shostakovich. Although one work didn’t include piano (Reger) and the piano part to another was of secondary importance (Bach), Ms. Wu was billed as the primary guest artist.

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Paris

Argerich, Maisky, Jansen, les trois mousquetaires de passage à la Philharmonie

By Julien Hanck, 07 February 2018

Argerich. Maisky. Jansen. C’est la promesse de voir le génie en acte, l’autorité musicale en robe d’insouciance.

*****

Hamburg

Eine Hommage an die zeitlose Martha Argerich

By Benedikt Zacher, 30 January 2018

Martha Argerich, Janine Jansen und Mischa Maisky wussten mit einem feurigen Konzert zu begeistern.

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Bern

Klassik-Hit, Motorik, und verzehrende Leidenschaft: Das Schnyder Trio in Bern

By Rolf Kyburz, 15 May 2017

Das Schnyder Trio entschied sich für sein Rezital im großen Saal des Konservatoriums Bern gegen die chronologische Reihenfolge der Klaviertrios - mit beglückendem Ergebnis.

****1

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