Corelli Variations / Transcriptions

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RACHMANINOV
Corelli Variations / Transcriptions
Olga Kern (piano)

[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 20 June 2004

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" All the virtuosity and panache you could want."
- The Dallas Morning News

Rising star of the piano Olga Kern is heard here in a dazzling program of Rachmaninov piano transcriptions. Featured works on the disc are the Corelli Variations Op.42 and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2. For the Liszt, Ms Kern plays Rachmaninov's own cadenza, which was transcribed from the composer's own recording. In addition to a cornucopia of transcriptions of music by Bach, Bizet, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert and Tchaikovsky, Ms Kern plays two of Rachmaninov's lovely miniatures, Daisies, Op.38, No.3 and Lilacs, Op.21, No.5. In performances by turns soulful and breathtaking, Ms Kern solidifies her reputation as an insightful and passionate virtuoso.

" A player of enormous brilliance and passion, one who whips audiences into frenzies."
- The Dallas Morning News

" Call it star quality - music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo. Kern's musicality radiates off the stage... it is joyously alive, immediately communicative, sensual."
- The Washington Post

Tracks:

J.S. Bach / Rachmaninov
Suite from the Partita in E major for violin

Georges Bizet / Rachmaninov
Minuet from L'Arlésienne

Fritz Kreisler / Rachmaninov
Liebesleid
Liebesfreud

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (cadenza by Rachmaninov)

Felix Mendelssohn / Rachmaninov
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Modest Mussorgsky / Rachmaninov
Hopak from Sorochinskaya yarmarka

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Lilacs Op. 21, No. 5
Daisies Op. 38, No. 3
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Rachmaninov
Flight of the Bumblebee

Franz Schubert / Rachmaninov
Wohin?

Piotr Tchaikovsky / Rachmaninov
Lullaby Op. 16, No. 1