Sergei Rachmaninoff: Complete Piano Works
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Release Date: 29 January 2016
Label: Odradek Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 7
Barcode: 0850869006015
Release Date: 29 January 2016
Label: Odradek Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 7
Barcode: 0850869006015
Description
Described as a "poet amongst pianists", Portuguese artist Artur Pizarro presents the complete solo piano works of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Previously released in three acclaimed volumes, this box comprising seven CDs is issued at a very special price.
A former winner of the Leeds Piano Competition, Pizarro offers his listeners a lifetime of love for, and experience with, this music which speaks, as he says, "of the endless variety of the human condition".
Tracing Rachmaninoff's development as a composer from the early Nocturnes and his encounters with Tchaikovsky as a teenage student of Nikolai Zverev in the 1880s, to the so-called 'Corelli Variations' of the 1930s, this landmark release shines a new light on every aspect of this remarkable oeuvre.
From the famed thunder claps of the C# minor Prelude, via the monumental passion of the two sonatas to the tender lyricism of many of the lesser-known miniatures, Pizarro imbues every page of this music with the fire and feeling for melodic contour for which his playing has become so admired.
Tracklisting
Nuno Côrte-Real, Ensemble Darcos & Coro Ricercare
Artur Pizarro, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Julia Jones
Ingibjorg Azima
Jenaer Philharmonie, Simon Gaudenz
Carion Wind Quintet
Johannes Fleischmann
Tony Addison Sextet
Vasco Pimentel Trio
Artur Pizarro, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Julia Jones
Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro
Artur Pizarro
Artur Pizarro
Artur Pizarro
Artur Pizarro