Rachmaninoff: Piano Works

Release Date: 29th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: MELCD1002542
Label: Melodiya
Length: 71 minutes

Rachmaninoff: Pieces (2) in A major for piano 6 hands - Waltz & Romance

Work length5:27

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Yevgeny Bunin, Viktor Bunin, Vladimir Bunin

No. 1, Waltz

Track length1:27

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$1.25

No. 2, Romance

Track length4:00

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

Work length26:54

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Alexander Bakhchiev

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo

Work length4:34

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$1.25

Alexander Bakhchiev

Tchaikovsky: Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1

Work length4:19

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$1.25

Alexander Bakhchiev

Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1: II. Minuet

Work length3:15

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$1.25

Alexander Bakhchiev

Rachmaninoff: Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5

Work length2:45

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$1.25

Alexei Nasedkin

Rachmaninoff: Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3

Work length3:06

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$1.25

Alexei Nasedkin

Rachmaninoff: At my window, Op. 26 No.10

Work length2:06

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$1.25

Dmitri Bashkirov

Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42

Work length18:51

Album only

Sergei Kasprov

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Melodiya presents an album of variations and piano transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The variation cycles for solo piano (Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 and Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42), the first of which date back to Rachmaninoff’s heyday and the other to his emigration period, are not among his most popular works. Nevertheless, they allow us to lift the veil over the creative workshop of the great composer and pianist and gain a greater understanding of his inner world. Just as he does in his arrangements of other composers’ music, Rachmaninoff remains true to himself in the variations on others’ themes, transforming Chopin’s and Corelli’s material in the hearth of his own artistic individuality. The genre of transcription is represented with Minuet from Georges Bizet’s L’arlesienne Suite No. 1, Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Lullaby and the composer’s arrangements of the romances Lilacs and Daisies. The featured recordings of Rachmaninoff’s works were made by Alexander Bakhchiev, Dmitri Bashkirov and Alexei Nasedkin, remarkable domestic pianists of the second half of the 20th century, and Sergei Kasprov, a musician of the new generation, representative of Alexei Lyubimov’s school, associate professor of the Moscow Conservatory and prizewinner of international competitions. The album also includes Valse and Romance for a very uncommon line-up – a piano ensemble six hands. The pieces were written in 1890 and 1891 for sisters Natalia, Vera and Lyudmila Skalon with whom the young composer spent summer months in the village of Ivanovka.

Rachmaninoff: Piano Works

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