Artur Pizarro, Sergei Rachmaninoff - Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2xCD) (Mint (M))

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Described as a “poet amongst pianists”, Portuguese artist Artur Pizarro presents a new recording of the complete solo piano works of Sergei Rachmaninoff. A former winner of the Leeds Piano Competition, 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”. Tracing Rachmaninoff’s development as a composer from the early Nocturnes and his encounters with Tchaikovsky as a teenage student of Nikolai Zverev in the 1880s, to the so-called ‘Corelli Variations’ of the 1930s, this landmark release shines a new light on every aspect of this remarkable oeuvre. From the famed thunder claps of the C# minor Prelude, via the monumental passion of the two sonatas to the tender lyricism of many of the lesser-known miniatures, Pizarro imbues every page of this music with the fire and feeling for melodic contour for which his playing has become so admired.

. CD 1:
1-13. 13 Preludes, Op. 32
14-36. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22
. CD 2:
1-5. Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3
6-15. 10 Preludes, Op. 23

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