Tavros Records Producers Recall Experience of Hearing Sakharova and Others
	Back to the main story		One summer day we arrived at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara to attend a chamber music master class given by the renowned pianist Jerome Lowenthal. Assembled on the stage in Lehmann Hall was a trio of student musicians – Korean pianist Yung Wook Yoo, Russian violinist Julia Sakharova, and from Iceland, cellist Margrét Arnadóttir. Mr. Lowenthal announced their performance was going to be the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Trio Élégiaque in D minor. Only moments after these musicians began, we were transported to a world where spirit transcends time and place. When the performance was finished, our emotional states were beyond anything any of us had ever experienced listening to music. The beauty and truth of Rachmaninoff's elegy for the great Tchaikovsky stayed with us day and night, and we found ourselves wanting to share the experience with our family and friends. Our dream of these same musicians performing the same trio again in its three-movement entirety, as well as Rachmaninoff’s first Trio Élégiaque in G minor, turned into the reality of Tavros Records. Going through the process of recording was not something we had set out to do, or something we knew how to do. We learned as we went. We used alternate recording techniques than those used for customary chamber music, and therefore this CD of Rachmaninoff Élégiaque Trios is not your typical classical music record. We ended up with a recording that brings the listener closer to the experience of hearing the music performed live on stage. We are humbled and honored to be able to share it with you. . . . — The producers at Tavros Records
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