Type: Chamber Orchestra
Event: Verbier Festival, Switzerland
Soloists: Joshua Bell, Mischa Maisky, Evgeny Kissin
Program: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
Year: 2009

This Verbier Festival performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio brings together three iconic soloists whose careers are usually centered on individual prominence rather than collective playing: Joshua Bell, Mischa Maisky, and Evgeny Kissin. What makes the performance notable is their reputations and the fact that each arrives with a distinct, highly recognizable approach; Bell’s controlled line, Maisky’s overtly inflected phrasing, and Kissin’s tightly structured, rhythmically anchored playing.