Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 Paganini Rhapsody

Lang Lang Gergiev Valery

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 Paganini Rhapsody
Format
Audio
Publisher
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (DG)
Published
14 March 2005
ISBN
0028947752318

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 Paganini Rhapsody

Lang Lang Gergiev Valery

Catalogue # 4775231

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It isnt that long since Lang Lang was in Melbourne playing\nTchaikovskys Piano Concerto #1 and bringing the audience to its\nfeet. Now he turns his attention to another two great Russian piano\nmasterpieces, accompanied by the charismatic conductor Valery\nGergiev and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. Lang Lang has\nbeen playing the Rachmaninov 2nd since he was 14 and his\nunderstanding of this work shows. Whilst Lang Lang is as\nbrilliantly accomplished a pianist as anyone and surmounts this\nworks difficulties with considerable lan, it is in the quieter\npassages where his feeling and, why deny it, his simple enjoyment\nof this music comes across so well. In the Rhapsody, whilst there\nis high voltage playing from both pianist and conductor, you dont\nfeel that the music is subservient to any desire to show off, but\nthat the artists are striving solely to bring forth the musics\nemotions. This they do in spades in a recording that demands to be\nheard.

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Bruce Raggatt is from Readings Hawthorn, Malvern and Port\nMelbourne

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