Rachmaninoff: Moments Musicaux Op.16 and Transcriptions

This well filled album contain the complete transcriptions for piano that Rachmaninoff made of compositions of various composers. Also on this album is the complete Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 by Rachmaninoff. Being a celebrated pianist and a genius composer, Rachmaninoff didn’t literally transcribe, but added his own unique pianistic and compositional features to them, creating as much his own masterwork as is the original. Ranging from Bach (3 movements from the Violin Partita in E), through transcriptions of his own and Tchaikovsky’s songs, Mendelssohn’s Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream of hair-raising difficulty, he ends with fashionable transcriptions of Kreisler’s Liebesleid and Liebesfreud, a pianistic tour de force and favourite encore.

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As a substantial bonus Alexander Ghindin plays the complete Moments Musicaux Op. 16. Ghindin, one of Russia’s foremost young pianists, has the true Rachmaninoff feeling, a mix of melancholy and grandeur, playing with stunning virtuosity and panache.



Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Artist: Alexander Ghindin (piano)



Tracklist:



Moments Musicaux Op. 16:

00:00:00 No. 1 in B flat minor, andantino

00:07:52 No. 2 in E flat minor, allegretto

00:11:21 No. 3 in B minor, andante cantabile

00:18:43 No. 4 in E minor, presto

00:21:57 No. 5 in D flat major, andante sostenuto

00:26:28 No. 6 in C major, maestoso



Transcriptions:



Johann Sebastian Bach: From Partita in E major for violin solo:

00:31:22 Prelude

00:35:21 Gavotte

00:38:40 Gigue

00:40:34 Franz Schubert: Wohin?

00:43:07 Georges Bizet: Menuet, from L’Arlésienne Suite

00:46:08 Felix Mendelssohn: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

00:50:37 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Lilacs (song)

00:53:10 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Daisies (song)

00:55:54 Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: Lullaby

01:00:57 Modest Mussorgsky: Hopak

01:03:03 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble Bee

01:04:12 Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid

01:08:42 Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud

01:15:22 Polka de V.R



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