from Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes (CDA67700) 1 Largo [3'44] 35 minutes 37 seconds 10 tracks2 Maestoso [3'42] 3 Tempo di minuetto [3'34] 4 Andante cantabile [5'22] 5 Alla marcia [3'55] 6 Andante [3'08] 7 Allegro [2'39] 8 Allegro vivace [3'41] 9 Presto [2'00] 10 Largo [3'52] ‘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 ... |