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Track(s) taken from SIGCD324

Fugue

composer
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
1891
arranger
Jeremy Filsell (b?)

Jeremy Filsell (organ)
Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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Recording details: August 2012
Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Produced by Mark Willey
Engineered by Joe Hannigan
Release date: January 2015
Total duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds
 

Reviews

'The dynamic range is excellent, there is real presence, a sense of acoustic space and the innumerable instrumental timbres on offer are vividly recreated … the sound is very, very good … this is an issue that allows one to see a great composer in a new light, and as such is well-worth investigating' (Audiophile)» More
The gigue-style Fugue (1891) is a student work dating from Rachmaninov’s years under Arensky at the Moscow Conservatoire. Not perhaps an obvious form in which to work for Rachmaninov, his contrapuntal studies under Anton Arensky and SergeiTaneyev nonetheless translated into the complex linear textures adopted in early works. This concise but brilliant fugue, exercising as ever the technical aplomb of its player, seems a natural fit for the organ.

from notes by Jeremy Filsell © 2014

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