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Rachmaninoff Plays Chopin
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0090266253326
Label: RCA
Manufacturer: RCA
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: RCA
Release Date: August 16, 1994
Studio: RCA
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Rating: - Rachmaninoff plays Chopin
The Maestro at his best. He perfected his piano playing after leaving Russia and Moscow forever in 1917.
Rating: - AMAZING
Rachmaninoff's performance of the Chopin B flat sonata is Monumental, and the greatest performance that exists.
Lawrence
Rating: - An interesting release
I suspect part of the fascination in Rachmaninov's playing is due to his being part of that increasingly rare and illustrious breed: the pianist-composer. The Funeral March sonata on this disc is perhaps the most famous of all. Noble as it is, I wouldn't proclaim it the account to end all others. The trademarks of this musician's pianism are apparent: clarity, poise, faultless execution. As another reviewer noted, the artist takes liberties with some scores but always in a tasteful manner. The ... Read More
Rating: - Deep and Penetrating
This transfer of Rachmaninoff, while far from perfect, is much more than acceptable. It is much better than what we have from Piano Library which contains 99% of the same thing. Rachmaninoff's understanding of music is deep and penetrating: being a composer himself, he understood the structure of the pieces so well.
Here each piece has it's own life and identity each with a focal point. It is water tight compact and yet very much natural and alive. But it is not natural in Arrau's ... Read More
Rating:  - I really wish DDD existed back then
A good album but the transfer is terrible. It sounds like this CD was recorded with a mono microphone held at the speaker of an old phonograph. The amount of noise is so great that sometimes it is really hard to hear the soft parts over it.
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