Review: Hermitage Piano Trio in Rockville

The Hermitage Piano Trio was formed only two years ago and is already on its second pianist. But at the Trio's performance Sunday at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, newcomer Ilya Kazantsev was virtually flawless in Rachmaninoff's monstrous Trio No. 2, Op. 9. The piece is a not-so-miniature piano concerto; the string writing is almost entirely homophonic and startlingly inept, which is why it's almost never performed. But a hungry pianist has much to devour here, and Kazantsev ranged ov...