Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, etc.

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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, etc.

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Philips

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4647322

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Philips 50

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1

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0028946473221

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Rachmaninov:

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17

with Nelson Freire (piano)


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playRachmaninov: Piano Concerto #3 In D Minor, Op. 30 - 1. Allegro Ma Non Tanto

playRachmaninov: Piano Concerto #3 In D Minor, Op. 30 - 2. Intermezzo: Adagio

playRachmaninov: Piano Concerto #3 In D Minor, Op. 30 - 3. Finale: Alla Breve

playRachmaninov: Suite #2 For 2 Pianos, Op. 17 - 1. Introduction

playRachmaninov: Suite #2 For 2 Pianos, Op. 17 - 2. Waltz

playRachmaninov: Suite #2 For 2 Pianos, Op. 17 - 3. Romance

playRachmaninov: Suite #2 For 2 Pianos, Op. 17 - 4. Tarantella

Gramophone Classical Music Guide

2010

“Rarely in her extraordinary career has Argerich sounded more exhaustingly restless and quixotic, her mind and fingers flashing with reflexes merely dreamt of by other less phenomenally endowed pianists. Yet her Rachmaninov is full of surprises, her opening Allegro almost convivial until she meets directions such as più vivo or veloce, where the tigress in her shows her claws and the music is made to seethe and boil. The cadenza (the finer and more transparent of the two) rises to the sort of climax that will make all pianists' hearts beat faster and her first entry in the 'Intermezzo' interrupts the orchestra's musing with the impatience of a hurricane. But throughout these pages it's almost as if she's searching for music that will allow her virtuosity its fullest scope. In the finale she finds it, accelerating out of the second movement with a sky-rocketing propulsion.
Here the music races like wildfire, with a death-defying turn of speed at 7'21" and an explosive energy throughout that must have left audience, conductor and orchestra feeling as if hit by some seismic shock-wave.”

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