Steven Osborne - Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2; Corelli Variations ¿ Medtner: Sonata romantica [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Steven Osborne has become increasingly admired for his performances and recordings of Russian Romantic piano music, playing with a remarkable level of authority and a rare combination of technical ease, tonal lustre and idiomatic identification. Here he presents an impressive selection from two masters who lived and worked contemporaneously. Both were renowned concert pianists, and both wrote superbly for their instrument. Yet their reputations could not be more divergent. Rachmaninov utterly loved; Medtner only now becoming rehabilitated.rMedtneru2019s u2018Sonata Romanticau2019 was composed in 1930 in Paris, and first performed by the composer in Glasgow the following year. It was the twelfth of his fourteen piano sonatas. Not only its title but also the expressive content of its four movements, played without a break, make it virtually a manifesto for Medtneru2019s art. Apart from sonatas, Medtneru2019s favourite genre was the Skazka (u2018Taleu2019). It has been pointed out that the usual English translation of u2018Fairy taleu2019 does not do justice to the power and depth of many of these pieces, some of which almost approach Chopinu2019s Ballades in their expressive scope. The two Skazki of Op 20 recorded here were composed in 1909.rIn a recent performance of Rachmaninovu2019s Piano Sonata No 2, a great Romantic showpiece, Osborne was described by the Washington Post as u2018a master of momentum and color, a wielder of power and a sure navigator through huge landscapes: his Rachmaninov was both coherent and daringly freeu2019.

Allegro Con Espressione

Campanella: Pesante, Minaccioso

Romanza: Andantino Con Moto, Ma Sempre Espressivo

Scherzo: Allegro

Meditazione: Andante Con Moto

Finale: Allegro Non Troppo

Variations On a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42

Allegro Agitato

Non Allegro

Allegro Molto

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 34571179360

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