Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter
Number of Discs: 1
Format: DSD64 (iso)
Label: Praga
Release: 2014
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Étude-Tableau, Op. 33
01. No. 9 in D minor
02. No. 5 in C sharp minor
03. No. 6 in E flat minor
Étude-Tableau, Op. 39
04. No. 1 in E flat major
05. No. 2 in C minor
06. No. 3 in A minor
07. No. 4 in F sharp minor
08. No. 7 in B minor
09. No. 9 in C minor
Prelude Op. 23
10. No.1 in D major
11. No.2 in F sharp minor.
12. No.4 in B flat major
13. No.5 in D major
14. No.8 in G minor
15. No.7 in A flat major
Prelude Op. 32
16. No.2 in C minor
17. No.1 in C major
18. No.6 in B flat minor
19. No.7 in F major
20. No.9 in A major
21. No.10 in B minor
22. No.12 in G sharp minor
This romantic programme juxtaposes the best piano solo pieces of Rachmaninov, selected by Richter himself, and charms with his old-fashionioned and romantic Russian approach, with elegance, energy and virtuosity, an irresistible balance between secret humour, power and native melancholy. Before him, only Vladimir Sofronitzky risked such modernity, now….