Work: Piano Trio no. 2 in D minor, "Trio Élégiaque", Op.9

The Toronto Summer Music Festival’s opening concert made the audience very happy with a program of piano trios heavily weighted towards lamentation. Gabriel Fauré composed his Op. 120 trio in retirement while oppressed by old age, total deafness and bouts of bronchial pneumonia, but he makes his misery sing.

En trio, le violoniste letton livre une lecture bouleversante d'œuvres de compositeurs contemporains méconnus, avant un Trio « Élégiaque » n° 2 de Rachmaninov plus ordinaire.