SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
RACHMANINOFF PLAYS RACHMANINOFF (1994)
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Unlike most composer/pianists, Rachmaninoff's instrumental prowess was fully commensurate with his creative gifts. He embraces his youthful First Concertos as if he had encountered an old lover, consumating his passion with stupefying fingerwork in the first movement cadenza. Conversely, the composer seems bored in the Third. He laconically dispatches its torrents of notes, opts for the easier ossias in difficult passages, and makes cuts in the first and third movements. And pianists like Arturo Michelangeli and Earl Wild have recorded more incisive, demonic Rach Fourths. No question about the Paganini Rhapsody and Second Concerto, where Rachmaninoff's fierce authority and luscious, molten tone permeate every bar.

Disc 1
Concerto No.1, Op.1
1. Vivace
2. Andante
3. Allegro vivace
Concerto No.4, Op.40
4. Allegro vivace
5. Largo
6. Allegro vivace
Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43
7. Intro: Allegro vivace
8. Var I: (Precedente)
9. Tema: L'istesso tempo
10. Var II: L'istesso tempo
11. Var III: L'istesso tempo
12. Var IV: Piu vivo
13. Var V: Tempo precedente
14. Var VI: L'istesso tempo
15. Var VII: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato
16. Var VIII: Tempo I
17. Var IX: L'istesso tempo
18. Var X: Poco marcato
19. Var XI: Moderato
20. Var XII: Tempo di minuetto
21. Var XIII: Allegro
22. Var XIV: L'istesso tempo
23. Var XV: Piu vivo scherzando
24. Var XVI: Allegretto
25. Var XVII: [Allegretto]
26. Var XVIII: Andante cantabile
27. Var XIX: A tempo vivace
28. Var XX: Un poco piu vivo
29. Var XXI: Un poco piu vivo
30. Var XXII: Un poco piu vivo (Alla breve)
31. Var XXIII: L'istesso tempo
32. Var XXIV: A tempo un poco meno mosso

Disc 2
Concerto No. 2, Op. 18
1. Moderato; Allegro
2. Adagio sostenuto
3. Allegro scherzando
Concerto No. 3, Op. 30
4. Allegro ma non tanto
5. Intermezzo: Adagio
6. Finale: Alla breve