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Track(s) taken from SIGCD164

Romance in A minor, Op posth.

composer
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
?1888/1889

Hideko Udagawa (violin), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
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Recording details: May 2008
St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol, United Kingdom
Produced by Tim Oldham
Engineered by Mike Cox & Dave Rowell
Release date: May 2009
Total duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds
 

Reviews

'A pupil of Nathan Milstein, Hideko Udagawa retains the Master’s nobility throughout a programme of Rachmaninov transcriptions centered on Mikhailovsky’s skilful adaptation of the Cello Sonata' (BBC Music Magazine)
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'Udagawa has a real feel for Rachmaninoff’s delicate expressive nuances … the recording balance is perfect, the violin never clouded by the density of the piano part, and the sound is brilliant and true' (The Strad)
Several ‘romances’ are found among Rachmaninov’s chamber juvenilia. Noted in Bertensson and Leyda (1965), this one, published in New York over half a century ago from a Moscow manuscript, and subsequently in the USSR, takes the guise of a ternary andante cantabile with a con moto/cadenza episode and an elaborated reprise, the whole framed by a lento prelude and postlude, closing on a tierce de picardie. ‘Influenced by Tchaikovsky’ (Hideko Udagawa).

from notes by Ateş Orga © 2009

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