Rapsodie for Piano and Orchestra on a Theme of Paganini

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Featuring the composer himself at the keyboard, this authoritative recording captures the glittering virtuosity of his late-career masterpiece. The variations seamlessly blend devilish technical demands with sweeping, hyper-romantic lyricism, most notably in the famously inverted eighteenth variation. It remains a definitive historical reference for the execution of late Russian romanticism.