Musical Rarities: String Chamber Music from Zurich & St. Petersburg Trio Amani

• Nikolai Amani (1872 - 1904): String Trio in D Minor, Op. 1:
• 1 Amani: String Trio in D Minor, Op. 1: I. Allegro moderato - Allegro - Più mosso 07:58
• 2 Amani: String Trio in D Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante non troppo 05:01
• 3 Amani: String Trio in D Minor, Op. 1: III. Intermezzo. Allegro scherzando 04:26
• 4 Amani: String Trio in D Minor, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Allegro molto 06:13
• Hans Schaeuble (1906 - 1988): String Quartet, Op. 35:
• 5 Schaeuble: String Quartet, Op. 35: I. Allegro - Poco pui mosso 03:59
• 6 Schaeuble: String Quartet, Op. 35: II. Andante mezza voce - Andante 04:50
• 7 Schaeuble: String Quartet, Op. 35: III. Scherzo 02:33
• 8 Schaeuble: String Quartet, Op. 35: IV. Allegro. Primo tempo 02:47
• Paul Müller-Zürich (1898 - 1993): String Trio, Op. 46:
• 9 Müller-Zürich: String Trio, Op. 46: I. Molto tranquillo 04:49
• 10 Müller-Zürich: String Trio, Op. 46: II. Allegro ritmico 01:41
• 11 Müller-Zürich: String Trio, Op. 46: III. Andante tranquillo 02:47
• 12 Müller-Zürich: String Trio, Op. 46: IV. Vivace 04:51
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): Sonata for 2 Violins in C Major, Op. 56:
• 13 Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins in C Major, Op. 56: I. Andante cantabile 02:50
• 14 Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins in C Major, Op. 56: II. Allegro 03:02
• 15 Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins in C Major, Op. 56: III. Commodo 03:05
• 16 Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins in C Major, Op. 56: IV. Allegro con brio 04:38
• Total Runtime 01:05:30

Info for Musical Rarities: String Chamber Music from Zurich & St. Petersburg

The trio was founded in 2017 by violinist Marina Yakovleva, her fellow-violinist and brother Mikhail Yakovlev and cellist Lev Sivkov. They chose the name “Trio Amani” in honour of the Russian composer Nikolai Amani (1872-1904), whose String Trio they discovered in 2018 and premiered that year in Zurich. After a highly successful concert series, Marina, Mikhail and Lev invited violist Vahagn Aristakesyan to join them on the present recording of chamber music for strings in various scorings from Russia and Switzerland. The trio presented this programme in 2019 in a series of concerts in the composers’ homelands. The repertoire of Trio Amani comprises a wide variety of compositions for various formations, from duo to piano quintet.

The album will be released in the series "Musik aus der Zentralbibliothek Zürich". The Music Department was set up in 1971 and rapidly established itself as an academic collection of European status. Alongside large holdings of printed and recorded music, the Music Department is home to one of the world’s largest collections of Wagneriana and now serves as a major repository of Swiss music manuscripts from the past 200 years.

Vahagn Arisakesyan, viola
Trio Amani:
Marina Yakovleva, violin
Mikhail Yakovlev, viola
Lev Sivkov, cello

Vahagn Aristakesyan
was born in Armenia. He began his musical education at the age of seven and studied violin in Yerevan until 1996. From 1992 to 1995 he played in the youth orchestra “Serenade”, with which he won first prize for chamber music at the 1995 Premio Valentino Bucchi competition in Rome. He continued his studies in 1996, taking violin and viola with Tibor Varga in Sion (Switzerland), and was soon appearing as soloist with the Orchestre de l’Académie Tibor Varga. Aristakesyan has been deputy section head of the second violins in the Basel Symphony Orchestra since 2000. In 2006, he was selected to be the leader of the Collegium Musicum Basel.

Trio Amani
The trio was founded in 2017 by violinist Marina Yakovleva, her fellow-vioinist and brother Mikhail Yakovlev and cellist Lev Sivkov. They chose the name “Trio Amani” in honour of the Russian composer Nikolay Amani (1872-1904), whose string trio they discovered in 2018 and premiered that year in Zurich.

After a highly successful concert series, Marina, Mikhail and Lev invited violist Vahagn Aristakesyan to join them on the present recording of chamber music for strings in various scorings from Russia and Switzerland. The trio presented this programme in 2019 in a series of concerts in the composers’ homelands.

The repertoire of Trio Amani comprises a wide variety of compositions for various formations, from duo to piano quintet.

Booklet for Musical Rarities: String Chamber Music from Zurich & St. Petersburg