(CD RELEASE 1/5, 2026) AMSTERDAM PIANO TRIO - TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO TRIO / SCHOENBERG: VERKLARTE NACHT

This album pairs two works separated by only 17 years but whose composers seem at first glance to be worlds apart. The coupling of Tchaikovsky's monumental 'Piano Trio in A Minor' (1882) with Schoenberg's 'Verklärte Nacht' (1899, in its original scoring for string sextet) reveals a line of musical continuity from the great Russian romantic to the pioneering Viennese modernist. 'Verklärte Nacht' has itself been transfigured here in a new, never-before-recorded arrangement for piano trio by Henk Guittart, one of the world's leading Schoenberg specialists. This debut recording from the Amsterdam Piano Trio features award-winning Hyperion pianist Andrey Gugnin alongside violinist Anna Lipkind-Mazor and cellist Dmitry Prokofiev.

TRACKLIST:

1. Pezzo Elegiaco. Moderato Assai
2. Adagio Con Duolo E Ben Sostenuto
3. Tema
4. Variation 1. L'istesso Tempo
5. Variation 2. Più Mosso
6. Variation 3. Allegro Moderato
7. Variations 4-6. L'istesso Tempo - Tempo Di Valse
8. Variation 7. Allegro Moderato
9. Variation 8. Fuga
10. Variation 9. Andante Flebile Ma Non Tanto
11. Variations 10-11. Tempo Di Mazurka - Moderato
12. Variazione Finale E Coda
13. I. Grave
14. II. A Tempo
15. III. A Tempo
16. IV. Bar 249
17. V. Poco Adagio