Piano Trios

Anton Arensky was born in 1861 into a music-loving family. He showed a precocious talent at an early age and he enlisted at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where Rimsky-Korsakov was his teacher. He became a versatile artist: pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, first in St Petersburg, then at the Conservatory in Moscow, where his pupils included Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Glière. Arensky's musical style is a happy mix of the nationalistic school of Rimsky-Korsakov and the Group of Five, and the West-oriented style of Tchaikovsky. His two piano trios are delightful works, brimming with sumptuous romantic melodies and harmonies, bedded in skillful and

brilliant virtuosity. This is the debut CD of the Trio Carducci, three young female musicians. Their mentor Konstantin Bogino, pianist of the famous Tchaikovsky Trio, said about them: "The Trio Caducci offers a creative approach to everything it plays, and has an impressively rich sound. The performances are sincere, full of intensity and great imagination. Each of these young women has a high instrumental and artistic level, and together they are even stronger".