0855317003172

Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3

Artur Pizarro

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: ODRCD317

Release Date:  13 November 2015

Label:  Odradek Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  0855317003172

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

  • Description

    Distinguished Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro concludes his landmark recording of the 'Complete Piano Works' of Sergei Rachmaninoff for Odradek Records with its third volume.

    Among the compositions on this 3-CD set are the early Suite in D minor, only recently re-discovered and given its premiere (it is thought) in 2007, the Piano Sonata No. 1, the Etudes-tableaux, op 33, Rachmaninoff's transcriptions of other composers - from Mendelssohn and Bizet to Rimsky-Korsakov's 'The Flight of the Bumble Bee' - and a host of miniature pieces.

    Artur Pizarro is renowned for his performances of Rachmaninoff. A former winner of the Leeds Piano Competition (he played the Third Concerto when he won the competition in 1990), Pizarro offers his listeners a lifetime of love for, and experience with, this music which speaks, as he says, "of the endless variety of the human condition".

    A 7-CD set comprising all three volumes of Pizarro's Rachmaninoff solo piano recordings will be released in early 2016. Another new Pizarro album is Rachmaninoff's Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor 'Trio élégiaque' with violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff for the Avi Music label. In 2014, Artur Pizarro and the Italian pianist Rinaldo Zhok formed a duo for both the piano duet and two piano repertoire. Their debut disc together - of music by Antonin Dvorak - will also be released by Odradek.

    Personnel: Artur Pizarro (piano)

    On Pizarro's Rachmaninoff Volume 2:

    "

    Pizarro's playing is absolutely exquisite, not only revelling in the expressive beauty of Rachmaninov's invention, but also managing to draw out lots of interesting inner melodic voices" - BBC Music Magazine (***** Instrumental Choice)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Suite in D minor
      • 2. I. Lento - Allegro Moderato
      • 3. II. Lento
      • 4. III. Menuetto
      • 5. IV. Allegro
      • 6. The Star Spangled Banner (John Stafford-Smith)
      • 7. Hopak (The Fair at Sorochyntsi) (Mussorgsky)
      • 8. Daisies
      • 9. Op. 38 No. 3
      • 10. Lilacs
      • 11. Op. 21 No. 5
      • 12. Lullaby (Tchaikovsky)
      • 13. The Flight Of The Bumble Bee (The Tale Of Tsar Saltan) (Rimsky-Korsakov)
      • 14. Suite from Partita in E major
      • 15. BWV 1006 (J.S. Bach)
      • 16. I. Prelude
      • 17. II. Gavotte
      • 18. III. Gigue
      • 19. Wohin? D795 No. 2 (from Die Schone Mullerin) (Schubert)

      Disc 2

      • 1. Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
      • 2. Op. 61 (Mendelssohn)
      • 3. Menuet from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 (Bizet)
      • 4. Polka De V.R.
      • 5. Liebesleid (Kreisler)
      • 6. Liebesfreud (Kreisler)
      • 7. Piano Sonata No. 1
      • 8. Op. 28.
      • 9. I. Allegro Moderato
      • 10. II. Lento
      • 11. III. Allegro Molto

      Disc 3

      • 1. Etudes tableaux
      • 2. Op. 33
      • 3. I. Allegro Non Troppo (F minor)
      • 4. II. Allegro (C major)
      • 5. III. Grave (C minor)
      • 6. IV. Moderato (D minor)
      • 7. V. Non Allegro Presto (E flat minor)
      • 8. VI. Allegro Con Fuoco (E flat major)
      • 9. VII. Moderato (G minor)
      • 10. VIII. Grave (C Sharp minor)
      • 11. 4 Pieces
      • 12. I. Romance
      • 13. II. Prelude
      • 14. III. Melodie
      • 15. IV. Gavotte
      • 16. Fughetta
      • 17. Prelude in F major
      • 18. Fugue in D minor
      • 19. Morceau De Fantaisie Delmo
      • 20. Song Without Words in D minor
      • . 3 Nocturnes