Trio Voronezh
 | By Anonymous, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, Franz Schubert, Dmitry Shostakovich Angel Records, 1999, Audio CD Customer Rating: 1 review Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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Trio Voronezh is made up of three Russian musicians who play bayan (accordion), domra (similar to a mandolin), and double bass balalaika. The trio has been a hit at the Oregon Bach Festival and over NPR; this is its debut disc. It's obviously aimed at the crossover market, with light fare including a Vivaldi movement and a Gershwin medley. But this ensemble's musicianship and originality qualify them for a more serious audience, too. Their Piazzolla is as tangy as anybody's, and the way they toss off Schnittke's parodistic Gogol Suite could crack up a musicologist. Turning Schubert's best-known Moment musical into a folk dance may not convince everyone, but they do the same with a Tchaikovsky Russian dance that's extremely persuasive. Too bad Angel hasn't identified the music on the disc properly, or given us more than 42 minutes of music on one CD. But what is here is so much fun that Trio Voronezh deserves a wide recommendation, especially to classical-music lovers who are relaxed enough to enjoy Quartetto Gelato or the Cambridge Buskers. — Leslie Gerber
- Work(s): Unspecified Concerto in G Major: Excerpt
- Tchastushka
- Michelangelo
- Moment Musicale, Op.94: No.3
- Gogol Suite
- Work(s): Unspecified Scherzo
- Russian Dance
- Midsummer Night's Dream: Excerpt
- Age of Gold: Excerpt
- Argentine Dance
- Ragtime
- Gershwin Medley, Arranged for Bajan, Domra, Double
Title: Trio Voronezh
Sales Rank: 290262 in Music
Creator: Anonymous, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, Franz Schubert, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Trio Voronezh, Trio Voronezh, Antonio Vivaldi, Zigankov
Label: Angel Records, 1999-10-19, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Package Dimensions: 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches, 0.18 pounds
- CLASSICS PLAYED ON RUSSIAN TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS
- This group produces incredibly interesting new sounds from the old classics, using Russian traditional folk instruments: the balalaika, the bajan, the mandolin, and accordion. You might never think that music of Vivaldi, Schubert & Bach could be well-presented on these instruments, but you will change your mind when you hear this CD. There are… More reviews
