14.4.10

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Études-Tableaux


1994; 17 tracks


Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in 1873, Novgorod (Semyonovo), Russia. He was a late Romantic and early Modernist composer who, though he is technically "Russian," lived in America for most of his life and is now considered an "American" conmposer. I don't really care about people who make this assumption. He is and was and always will be a true, Russian composer to me. His music is gorgeous. The Études-Tableaux are some of my favorite solo piano music of Rachmaninoff's, though he has composed a few Minute-Musicals and Preludes and other things. Rachmaninoff died in 1943 in San Francisco, California.

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"Études-tableaux" literally means "studies of landscape." Lugansky is a master of creating dark, cerebral landsacapes and yet maintaining Rachmaninoff's signature gentle melodies. The Études-Tableaux are some of my favorite solo piano music of Rachmaninoff's, though he has composed a few Minute-Musicals and Preludes and other things. Enjoy this wonderful 1994 recording.

4 comments:

  1. Stunning, as always, Alliepally.

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  2. But it's all in Rapidshare! Doesn't that enrage you? :)

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  3. Not at all, cutey. I'm going to listen to Rachmaninoff all morning now.

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