Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff

by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 September 2009
  • Label: Sony Classical
  • Country: Russia
  • Length: 1:11:15
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Zenph Studios rebuilt Rachmaninoff's playing from his own 78 rpm recordings, made between 1921 and 1942, and re-performed them on a 1909 Steinway D in Raleigh, North Carolina. The album presents 13 works twice over, in standard stereo and in a binaural version, and was issued for the centenary of the composer's American recital debut.

Genres

Descriptors: virtuosic, technical, piano, historical, archival

Tracklist

  1. Vivace (12:02)
  2. Andante (5:17)
  3. Allegro Vivace (7:17)
  4. Allegro Vivace (9:44)
  5. Largo (6:04)
  6. Allegro Vivace (8:43)
  7. Introduction: Allegro Vivace (0:08)
  8. Variation I: (Precedente) (0:21)
  9. Tema: L'istesso Tempo (0:20)
  10. Variation II: L'istesso Tempo (0:19)
  11. Variation III: L'istesso Tempo (0:25)
  12. Variation IV: Pi霉 Vivo (0:31)
  13. Variation V: Tempo Precedente (0:28)
  14. Variation VI: L'istesso Tempo (0:53)
  15. Variation VII: Meno Mosso, A Tempo Moderato (1:00)
  16. Variation VIII: Tempo I (0:33)
  17. Variation IX: L'istesso Tempo (0:31)
  18. Variation X: Poco Marcato (0:51)
  19. Variation XI: Moderato (1:12)
  20. Variation XII: Tempo Di Minuetto (1:19)
  21. Variation XIII: Allegro (0:30)
  22. Variation XIV: L'istesso Tempo (0:43)
  23. Variation XV: Pi霉 Vivo Scherzando (1:06)
  24. Variation XVI: Allegretto (1:21)
  25. Variation XVII: (Allegretto) (1:44)
  26. Variation XVIII: Andante Cantabile (2:35)
  27. Variation XIX: L'istesso Tempo (0:37)
  28. Variation XX: Un Poco Pi霉 Vivo (0:37)
  29. Variation XXI: Un Poco Pi霉 Vivo (0:26)
  30. Variation XXII: Un Poco Pi霉 Vivo (Alla Breve) (1:41)
  31. Variation XXIII: L'istesso Tempo (0:47)
  32. Variation XXIV: A Tempo Un Poco Meno Mosso (1:10)

Credits

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff - primary artist, piano, composed by
  • Eugene Ormandy - primary artist, conductor
  • Leopold Stokowski - primary artist, conductor
  • Ward Marston - transferred by
  • John Pfeiffer - reissue producer, producer
  • James Nichols - remastered by [engineer], engineer
  • Elizabeth A. Wright - liner notes
  • Nathaniel S. Johnson - remastered by [supervisor]
  • Andr茅 Gauthier - art direction
  • Christine Chagnon - design
  • Stephen Johnson - liner notes

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