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

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A detailed account. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: RCO16004
Label: RCO Live
Length: 55 minutes

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

Work length55:48

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 28, 29 and 31 January 2010
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

I. Largo - Allegro moderato (Live)

Track length18:34

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II. Allegro molto (Live)

Track length9:58

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III. Adagio (Live)

Track length13:59

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IV. Allegro vivace (Live)

Track length13:17

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The RCO's performance history of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony is strangely uneven. Already three years after its completion the symphony was performed by Willem Mengelberg in a programme that also boasted the composer as soloist in his own Piano Concerto No. 3. After that the symphony was performed again in 1921 and then there's a gap of 59 years. From 1980 on no less than 10 conductors (including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Kirill Kondrashin and Kurt Sanderling) put it on the RCO's music stands.

Its latest RCO incarnation proved to be an ideal performance.: with Mariss Jansons at the helm, heart and mind of this piece were totally balanced and the opulence of the RCO's sound at the Concertgebouw was perfectly suited to Rachmaninoff's most beloved symphony.

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October 2016

A detailed account.

CD Review 9th July 2016

very beautiful, very pleasant … good recorded sound as well.

August 2016

Jansons has always been more interventionist. While his speeds have slowed a little and the Concertgebouw acoustic imparts a softer grain, much is as it always has been: the rubato personal and touching, the sudden pianissimos positively breathtaking (unless you judge them to be overdone), the textures shimmery and iridescent, flecked with woodwind colour others miss.

17th July 2016

The Concertgebouw strings have rarely sounded lusher, though Jansons never wallows in sentiment, and the wind soloists, notably the yearning clarinet in the adagio, are outstanding...With Tchaikovsky, this is the music in which the young Jansons made his name. He surveys it now with Olympian scope.

10th July 2016

Jansons shapes its sumptuous melodies with restraint and detail, making the climaxes more than usually explosive. There’s great clarity in the playing, especially in the long slow movement with its huge clarinet solo...There’s no indulgence and plenty of excitement in this live recording from 2010.

The Classical Reviewer 17th July 2016

This is a conductor who is fully in tune with Rachmaninov bringing a performance that is unsettled, stormy and full of restrained emotion.

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

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