 | from Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes (CDA67700) 1 Allegro vivace [1'06] 37 minutes 25 seconds 13 tracks2 Allegretto [2'55] 3 Allegro vivace [2'20] 4 Allegro con brio [5'10] 5 Moderato [2'55] 6 Allegro appassionato [1'22] 7 Moderato [2'08] 8 Vivo [1'38] 9 Allegro moderato [2'56] 10 Lento [5'49] 11 Allegretto [1'59] 12 Allegro [2'19] 13 Grave [4'48] ‘There are few pianists who offer such range and depth of palette: not even Ashkenazy's seminal reading … this has award-winner written all over it’ (Gramophone) ‘Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure’ (BBC Music Magazine) ‘This sensational pianist … brings his technical wizardry and, above all, his penetrating musical intelligence to these much-recorded works of Rachmaninov … in his combination of modesty, in ... |