ANTON ARENSKY (1861-1906): 2 Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 12, 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 30, 4 Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 56, Piano Quintet in D, Op. 51.

Description: The 1900 quintet is pretty well-known (most recently offered here in Nov. 2011 - 11N049).  We offer this for the high-quality salon pieces for violin or cello and piano, intimate works sometimes witty, sometimes melancholy, often virtuosic and referring to such widely differing sources as Bach, Spanish and Russian folk music. Rachmaninov Trio Moscow with Leonid Lundstrem (violin) and Ilya Gofman (viola).