Sergei Rachmaninoff: Complete Piano Works Vol. 2

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Pizarro's playing is absolutely exquisite, not only revelling in the expressive beauty of Rachmaninov's invention, but also managing to draw out lots of interesting inner melodic voices in the... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: ODRCD316
Label: Odradek Records
Series: Artur Pizarro Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

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Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 32 Nos. 1-13

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II. Allegretto (B-flat minor)

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III. Allegro vivace (E major)

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IV. Allegro con brio (E minor)

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VI. Allegro appassionato (F minor)

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IX. Allegro moderato (A major)

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XI. Allegretto (B major)

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XIII. Grave – Allegro (D-flat major)

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Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22

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Theme - Largo

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Variation I - Moderato

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Variation II - Allegro

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Variation III

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Variation IV

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Variation VI - Meno mosso

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Variation VII - Allegro

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Variation VIII

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Variation IX

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Variation X - Più vivo

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Variation XI - Lento

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Variation XII - Moderato

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Variation XIII - Largo

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Variation XIV - Moderato

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Variation XV - Allegro scherzando

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Variation XVI - Lento

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Variation XVII - Grave

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Variation XVIII - Più mosso

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Variation XIX - Allegro vivace

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Variation XX - Presto

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Variation XXI - Andante

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Variation XXII - Maestoso

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Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3

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I. Elegie

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II. Prélude

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IV. Polichinelle

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Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 1-10

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IV. Andante cantabile (D major)

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VII. Allegro (C minor)

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VIII. Allegro vivace (A-flat major)

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IX. Presto (E-flat minor)

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X. Largo (G-flat major)

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The celebrated Portuguese artist Artur Pizarro continues his landmark recording of the complete solo piano works of Sergei Rachmaninoff for Odradek Records with the second volume. This 2-CD set includes both sets of Preludes, the Variations on a theme of Chopin and the less familiar Morceaux de Fantaisie.

Described as a “poet amongst pianists”, Artur Pizarro first encountered Rachmaninoff aged 6 when his grandmother gave him an LP of the First and Second Piano Concertos performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy: “I was left speechless by the sounds, harmonies and textures. I knew right away that I would have to play these works someday.” When he was 18, he first performed Rachmaninoff in public when he won the 1987 Vianna da Motta Competition in Lisbon. Rachmaninoff featured again when Pizarro won the 1990 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition which catapulted him to international fame.

The pianist says: “Through these recordings I want to invite you into the personal world of one of the true great Romantics, a composer, conductor and pianist who voices his most personal thoughts, sadnesses and joys through an instrument he understands with a degree of knowledge very few have achieved. I want to let his message and his music speak for itself. One thing I have truly learned during this project is that he is a figure still not completely understood by the world as he truly defies being put in a box...”

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September 2015

Pizarro's playing is absolutely exquisite, not only revelling in the expressive beauty of Rachmaninov's invention, but also managing to draw out lots of interesting inner melodic voices in the more densely scored passages.

July 2015

Refusing to grandstand, Pizarro leaves visceral virtuosity and nerve-storms to others aware only of a dark, melancholy, all-Russian introspection beneath the surface of so much outsize Romantic rhetoric. And if such a determinedly held viewpoint produces mixed results, they are rarely less than thought-provoking.

July 2015

The programming is imaginative...The Chopin Variations receive an astonishingly intelligent reading, exemplifying the way Pizarro treats Rachmaninov with a reverence most akin to Beethoven. The result is a polished, poetic edifice. Fascinating.

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Complete Piano Works Vol. 2

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