Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 / Preludes / Piano Music
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 / Preludes / Piano Music
Jorge Bolet (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Fischer / Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit
[ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 20 March 2014
2014 marks the centenary of the birth of the colossal Cuban-born pianist Jorge Bolet. Signed to Decca later in life he made a series of magnificent Liszt recordings, but also recorded music by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and Rachmaninov. One of Bolet's own teachers, Josef Hofmann, was the dedicatee of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, a work he recorded for Decca, together with the Second, and a series of solo piano works. There were three CDs in all of the music of Rachmaninov and these aristocratic performances are reissued here as a 2CD set. The notes include comments by Bolet on his artistic approach to the Third Concerto.
"a greatly superior recording is one of the attractions of this CD, and at countless points it highlights Bolet's absolute command of this work's myriad pianistic complexities … the finale's central scherzando is executed with great pianistic acuity" Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 1983 (Piano Concerto No. 3)
"The selection of Preludes finds him very much on home ground … The recorded sound has been sensitively achieved - the hushed winding-down in the coda to the Variations is superbly captured" Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 1988
"a splendid first movement climax … the opening and closing sections of the slow movement are ravishingly beautiful, helped by the glowing Montreal acoustics … a sumptuous, spectacular Decca recording" Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 1988
Tracks:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (London Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Fischer)
Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22
Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor
Prelude Op. 32 No. 7 in F major
Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor
Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor
Prelude Op. 23 No. 10 in G flat major
Melodie in E Major, Op. 3 No. 3
Liebesfreud (after Kreisler)
Liebesleid (after Kreisler)
