Hyperion Records | Rachmaninov: Variations

CDA66009
Superseded by CDS44041/8

Recording details: November 1978
Conway Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by John Boyden
Engineered by Caroline Dorey
Release date: December 1988
Total duration: 55 minutes 2 seconds

'Stunning performances' (BBC Record Review)

'An outstanding recording artist. His new record of rare and brilliant Rachmaninov has a magnetism which from first to last is inescapable' (The Guardian)

'An outstanding disc' (Penguin Guide)

Rachmaninov: Variations

Howard Shelley (piano)

1		Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op 22 [27'52] Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2		Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42 [18'30] Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
		Morceaux de fantaisie, Op 3 revised Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
3		No 3: Mélodie in E major [4'30]
		Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op 21 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
4		Transcription: Scherzo [4'10]