This release is a collector’s item for connoisseurs of Romantic-era music seeking to expand their collection, or for anyone seeking to dip into the world of Russian chamber music who is unsure of where to start. The Russian chamber music genre is intimate and detailed, yet the music here packs in the emotional force of a symphony. This substantial 25CD set offers a fascinating journey through one century of Russian Chamber Music. The repertoire spans 100 years from roughly 1850 till 1950, starting off with the classicist works by Michael Glinka and ending with the masterworks by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. In between we hear familiar and unfamiliar names: the great trios by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, trios, quartets and quintets by Taneyev, Arensky, Catoire, Rimsky-Korsakov, the complete chamber music by Borodin, violin sonatas by Anton Rubinstein, cello sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Myaskowsky and chamber music by Roslavets. A wealth of full-blooded Romanticism, always with the deep Slavic undertones of passion and melancholy. Performed by the Moscow Trio, Endellion Quartet, Trio Carducci, Moscow String Quartet, pianists Eldar Nebolsin, Kl?ra W?rtz, Alessandro Deljavan and many more
