Sergei Rachmaninoff

CD album cover 'Sergei Rachmaninoff' (GEN 88112) with Pietro Massa, Orchestra Bruno Maderna, Daniele  Giorgi

GEN 88112 EAN: 4260036251128

28.3.2008 Special offer
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Two cornerstones of the oeuvre of Sergei Rachmaninov, two masterworks of their genre are presented here by pianist Pietro Massa, the Orchestra Bruno Maderna and conductor Daniele Giorgi on this new GENUIN-CD. The combination of the Third Piano Concerto and the much too rarely played “Symphonic Dances” could not be more fortunate. The greatest conceivable contrasts are revealed to the listener within eighty minutes – breathtaking virtuosity and poetic magic, heaven-storming enthusiasm and ghostly stillness. With the Piano Concerto – principal work of Rachmaninov’s “Russian phase” and the Dances – his final work in any form – the interpreters of the CD offer “Rachmaninov compact” in the most brilliant way possible. One can hardly imagine the two works performed more soulfully, sensitively and beautifully.

Massa and the orchestra have managed to add a subtly soothing element … to the overloaded virtuosity. The solo part and orchestra do indeed interweave to form a homogeneous whole in which the two depend on each other in equal measure. (Piano News 4/2008)

Pietro Massa Piano
Orchestra Bruno Maderna
Daniele Giorgi

Two cornerstones of the oeuvre of Sergei Rachmaninov, two masterworks of their genre are presented here by pianist Pietro Massa, the Orchestra Bruno Maderna and conductor Daniele Giorgi on this new GENUIN-CD. The combination of the Third Piano Concerto and the much too rarely played “Symphonic Dances” could not be more fortunate. The greatest conceivable contrasts are revealed to the listener within eighty minutes – breathtaking virtuosity and poetic magic, heaven-storming enthusiasm and ghostly stillness. With the Piano Concerto – principal work of Rachmaninov’s “Russian phase” and the Dances – his final work in any form – the interpreters of the CD offer “Rachmaninov compact” in the most brilliant way possible. One can hardly imagine the two works performed more soulfully, sensitively and beautifully.

Massa and the orchestra have managed to add a subtly soothing element … to the overloaded virtuosity. The solo part and orchestra do indeed interweave to form a homogeneous whole in which the two depend on each other in equal measure. (Piano News 4/2008)

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Tracklist

  1. Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
    Allegro ma non tanto
  2. Intermezzo: Adagio
  3. Finale: Alla breve
  4. Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
    Non allegro
  5. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)
  6. Lento assai—Allegro vivace

Two cornerstones of the oeuvre of Sergei Rachmaninov, two masterworks of their genre are presented here by pianist Pietro Massa, the Orchestra Bruno Maderna and conductor Daniele Giorgi on this new GENUIN-CD. The combination of the Third Piano Concerto and the much too rarely played “Symphonic Dances” could not be more fortunate. The greatest conceivable contrasts are revealed to the listener within eighty minutes – breathtaking virtuosity and poetic magic, heaven-storming enthusiasm and ghostly stillness. With the Piano Concerto – principal work of Rachmaninov’s “Russian phase” and the Dances – his final work in any form – the interpreters of the CD offer “Rachmaninov compact” in the most brilliant way possible. One can hardly imagine the two works performed more soulfully, sensitively and beautifully.

Massa and the orchestra have managed to add a subtly soothing element … to the overloaded virtuosity. The solo part and orchestra do indeed interweave to form a homogeneous whole in which the two depend on each other in equal measure. (Piano News 4/2008)