These concertos span Rachmaninov's career, from his farewell to Russia (the piano concerto No 1 of 1891) to his uneasy exile in the new world, where he encountered 1920s jazz and big bands but wrote ...
Pianist Simon Trpceski is joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, in this compelling coupling of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 4. Trpceski captures the mood ...
Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.1 was written while he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory, but underwent considerable revisions up to 1917. His Piano Concerto No.4, meanwhile, was written after ...
There are so many heart-stopping moments in these interpretations, but one of the most poignant is that short, inspired passage in the slow movement of the Fourth Concerto, an artless, chromatically ...
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“There’s an old Russian expression,” said pianist Behzod Abduraimov. “It goes, ‘the new way is the well-forgotten old way.’ ” Abduraimov was talking about his approach to Sergei Rachmaninov’s ...
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