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.
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)
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 01:04:12 Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid 01:08:42 Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud