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Background: Apart from the 'Paganini Rhapsody', recorded after a concert performance, these are essentially 'live' recordings of the Rachmaninov Piano Concertos. Over a period of eighteen days eleven concerts were given, with each concerto being played several times. From these Hyperion have pieced together an 'ideal' performance.

These days a new recording of the Rachmaninov concertos has to be very special for it to be worth doing at all and it was not lightly that Hyperion proceeded with this project. Stephen Hough's very conscious return to the fast and lean performance tradition of the composer himself, avoiding the sentimental 'Hollywood' approach that has become so prevalent, coupled with the supreme level of the performances themselves has truly created a Rachmaninov cycle for the new millennium!

CATALOGUE NR: CDA675012
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 23.97 including VAT, or £ 20.40 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 04-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: Sergei Rachmaninov
TITLE: Piano Concertos
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor op.1. Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor op.40. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini op.43. Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor op.18. Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor op.30.
ORCHESTRA: Dallas Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andrew Litton
ARTISTS: Stephen Hough      

- Nov-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Awards-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Have there been more electric recordings of these works since the composers own?' - Gramophone 2005 Award Winner

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