Rachmaninov - The Piano Sonatas
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Label: Onyx
Cat No: ONYX4181
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th June 2017
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata no.1 in D minor, op.28Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor, op.36
Romances (6), op.16
Artists
Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano)Works
Piano Sonata no.1 in D minor, op.28Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor, op.36
Romances (6), op.16
Artists
Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano)About
Symphony No.2 and the opera Monna Vanna. He wrote to a friend on 8 May 1907: “The Sonata is without any doubt wild and endlessly long... No one will ever play this composition because of its difficulty and length”. The composer revealed later that the first movement related to Goethe's Faust, the second one to Gretchen and the third was the flight to the Brocken and Mephistopheles.
The Second Sonata, op.36, is an astounding feat of compositional ingenuity, created out of a single thematic seed. As with several of his works, Rachmaninov felt dissatisfied with the first version of 1913 and eventually revised it in 1931, significantly shortening it and thinning out the texture.
The transcription of Tchaikovsky's 'Lullaby' for piano, op.16 no.1, which Rachmaninov made in August 1941, is his last work. It is a remarkable coincidence that one of the very first pieces that he wrote as a 13-year-old in 1886 was the arrangement of another composition by Tchaikovsky.
Described by London’s Classic FM Magazine as a “sensationally gifted” musician of “stunning artistry”, Rustem Hayroudinoff graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Lev Naumov. He was one of the first students (if not the first) from the Soviet Union to study at the Royal Academy, where he is now a professor of piano. He has recorded for various labels including Chandos and Decca. This is his debut for Onyx.
“With Hayroudinoff’s playing equal to even that of Richter…” - BBC Music Magazine
“Rachmaninov asks everything of his pianist: a steely rhythmic sense, coruscating virtuosity, spiritual depth and introspection. Tartar-born Rustem Hayroudinoff marshals all these qualities. His classically contained but never underpowered approach is likely to have delighted the composer-pianist and it comes closest to Sviatoslav Richter…” - BBC Radio 3 Building a Library Choice
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