The day is coming, or so I hope, when the chamber music of Anton Arensky takes its proper place in our concert life. This is music that almost never gets performed, and yet every time a piece of ...

I’m prepared to believe the scholars who assure us that there’s not much to the legacy of the Russian composer Anton Arensky beyond his two piano trios. But it’s hard to hear the heartfelt elegance of ...

The ASPECT Foundation for Music & Arts presents Taneyev and Arensky: In Tchaikovsky's Shadow on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Bohemian National Hall, part of the foundation's second New ...

It couldn't have been a very hard decision when a certain string quartet consisting of four siblings sat down to come up with a name for themselves. We hear the Ying Quartet play two pieces from a ...

Russian composer Anton Arensky dedicated his 1894 Piano Trio No. 1 to a Russian cellist who had died in 1889. In an apparent tribute, Arensky has the cello introduce themes throughout nearly the ...

Suite No. 1 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Composer Natalia Lavrova, Piano Vassily Primakov, Piano Suite No. 2, 'Silhouettes' Vassily Primakov, Piano Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Composer Natalia Lavrova, ...

Lesser-known composers are often defined in relation to their better-known contemporaries. Anton Arensky (1861-1906) tends to be associated with his friend and mentor Tchaikovsky. Arensky became a ...

Following hard on the heels of Trio Wanderer's imposing Harmonia Mundi recording of Anton Arensky's Piano Trio No 1 we now have the Leonore's readings of both his trios (with Rachmaninov's Vocalise, ...

This ideal pairing of two "in memoriam" pieces displays the celebrated Trio Wanderer at their expansive best. Pianist Vincent Coq astounds in the monumental Tchaikovsky trio, written to mourn the ...

Cellist Mischa Maisky tried something a little different when he put together a recital program earlier this year at Elmau Castle in Germany. Instead of the usual sonatas, he assembled short Russian ...