Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferencz Liszt, Sergey Rachmaninov
Performer: Dmitry Masleev
Orchestra: Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra
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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP384
Release: 2025
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
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01. Liszt: Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra
02. Petukhov: Spanish Rhapsody for Piano and String Orchestra (After Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody, S.254)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
03. Introduction. Allegro vivace – Variations I – V
04. Variation VI. L’istesso tempo
05. Variations VII – X
06. Variation XI. Moderato
07. Variations XII – XV
08. Variations XVI – XVII
09. Variation XVIII. Andante cantabile
10. Variations XIX – XXIV
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974
11. II. Adagio (After Marcello’s Oboe Concerto)
Dmitry Masleev offers a highly personal diptych with the Dies irae theme running throughout. The pianist serves up these formidable pages with racy, sober, elegant playing, and virtuosity giving way to sensuality and crystal-clear lyricism. One one side we have Liszt’s Totentanz (which saw him triumph at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition) and Rhapsodie espagnole (adapted for piano and string orchestra by his mentor Petukhov) on the other is Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (his composer of choice). The album closes with the Adagio from Marcello’s Oboe Concerto, arranged for keyboard by Bach, a kind of vision of heaven after hell.
