Rachmaninov: Symphonies and Orchestral Music

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Release Date: 5th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2512
Label: BIS
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13

Work length45:48

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo

Track length14:43

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II. Allegro animato

Track length8:46

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III. Larghetto

Track length9:47

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IV. Allegro con fuoco

Track length12:32

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Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Movement in D minor 'Youth Symphony'

Work length14:31

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Rachmaninoff: Prince Rostislav

Work length14:46

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Work length1:01:37

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Lan Shui

I. Largo - Allegro moderato

Track length22:23

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II. Allegro molto

Track length9:55

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III. Adagio

Track length14:50

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IV. Allegro vivace

Track length14:29

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Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 - arrangement for orchestra

Work length6:10

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

Work length45:07

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

I. Lento - Allegro moderato

Track length18:10

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II. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro vivace

Track length12:26

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III. Allegro

Track length14:31

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Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Work length36:57

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

I. Non allegro

Track length11:56

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II. Andante con moto. Tempo di valse

Track length10:39

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III. Lento assai - Allegro vivace

Track length14:22

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Rachmaninoff: The Rock - Fantasy for Orchestra, Op. 7

Work length14:38

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Aleko

Work length14:56

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Introduction

Track length2:27

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Men's Dance

Track length4:23

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Intermezzo

Track length2:54

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Women's Dance

Track length5:12

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Rachmaninoff: Caprice Bohémien, Op. 12

Work length18:40

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Rachmaninoff: Scherzo in D minor

Work length4:54

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Op. 24

Work length6:44

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Prelude

Track length6:44

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Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead - Symphonic Poem, Op. 29

Work length20:17

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

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Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the twentieth century’s outstanding pianists, but the large body of purely orchestral music he composed is no less an expression of his musical character. His great strength was that he managed to preserve intact a vision he had discovered very early in life. This contemporary of Schoenberg, Scriabin, Ravel and Ives was unconcerned with musical fashions and had no wish to be a pioneer. Instead, and over a period of half a century he refined and deepened a language which derived naturally from his late-nineteenth-century Russian background. With this four-disc box set, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui present a comprehensive collection of Rachmaninov’s music for orchestra – from the Scherzo in D minor, his first surviving piece for orchestra, completed just before his fifteenth birthday to the canonical works: the Symphonies and the Symphonic Dances. The recordings were made between 2008 and 2015, with the three symphonies (previously released on separate albums) described as ‘eine formidable Gesamteinspielung’ on the website Pizzicato. But there is much more to Rachmaninov’s orchestral music besides the symphonies, and this box offers the listener opportunity to explore the young composer’s fascination with Gypsy themes (in the excerpts from the opera Aleko and Capriccio bohemien) as well as his lifelong preoccupation with death, in the form of the four notes of the Dies irae plainchant motif. This is heard again and again in Rachmaninov’s music, up until his very last work, the Symphonic Dances, where, at the very end of the third and final dance, this symbol of death is finally laid to rest.

Rachmaninov: Symphonies and Orchestral Music

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