Rachmaninov: Preludes & Melodies

In his second solo piano recital album for Signum, this release further demonstrates Alessio Bax’s dazzling skill and flair in performance and interpretation—this time with Rachmaninov’s piano works. The programme is centered around the Preludes op 23, but takes in a broad selection of his other studies, etudes, melodies and transcriptions in performance, Bax describes the programme as being a collection of ‘visions and landscape'.

SIGCD264  77 minutes 4 seconds
‘With this intricate and enterprising recital the wondrously gifted Alessio Bax fulfils, in his own words, a long-cherished dream … these include his own arrangement of the Vocalise where, withou ...
'In this homage to Rachmaninov, the pianist brings rare sensitivity to 23 Preludes, two teenage compositions, two very late ones, and Bax’s own arrangement of the Vocalise. The qualities he admires in ...