Rachmaninoff: Symphonies & Orchestral Music Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Lan Shui

• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13:
• 1 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13: I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo 14:35
• 2 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13: II. Allegro animato 08:36
• 3 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13: III. Larghetto 09:41
• 4 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13: IV. Allegro con fuoco 12:15
• Sergei Rachmaninoff:
• 5 Rachmaninoff: Symphony in D Minor "Youth" 14:16
• 6 Rachmaninoff: Prince Rostislav 14:30
• Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27:
• 7 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: I. Largo - Allegro moderato 22:04
• 8 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: II. Allegro molto 09:47
• 9 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: III. Adagio 14:41
• 10 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27: IV. Allegro vivace 14:13
• Sergei Rachmaninoff:
• 11 Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 (Version for Orchestra) 05:53
• Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44:
• 12 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44: I. Lento - Allegro moderato 17:56
• 13 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44: II. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro vivace 12:19
• 14 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44: III. Allegro 13:59
• Symphonic Dances, Op. 45:
• 15 Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: I. Non allegro 11:51
• 16 Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: II. Andante con moto. Tempo di valse 10:34
• 17 Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: III. Lento assai - Allegro vivace 14:09
• Sergei Rachmaninoff:
• 18 Rachmaninoff: The Rock, Op. 7 (Version for Orchestra) 14:21
• Aleko (Excerpts):
• 19 Rachmaninoff: Aleko (Excerpts): Introduction 02:24
• 20 Rachmaninoff: Aleko (Excerpts): Men's Dance 04:22
• 21 Rachmaninoff: Aleko (Excerpts): Intermezzo 02:51
• 22 Rachmaninoff: Aleko (Excerpts): Women's Dance 04:58
• Sergei Rachmaninoff:
• 23 Rachmaninoff: Capriccio on Gypsy Themes, Op. 12 (Version for Orchestra) 18:27
• 24 Rachmaninoff: Scherzo in D Minor 04:43
• 25 Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Op. 24: Prelude 06:28
• 26 Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 20:02
• Total Runtime 04:59:55

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Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the twentieth century’s outstanding pianists, but the large body of purely orchestral music he composed is no less an expression of his musical character. His great strength was that he managed to preserve intact a vision he had discovered very early in life. This contemporary of Schoenberg, Scriabin, Ravel and Ives was unconcerned with musical fashions and had no wish to be a pioneer. Instead, and over a period of half a century he refined and deepened a language which derived naturally from his late-nineteenth-century Russian background. With this four-disc box set, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui present a comprehensive collection of Rachmaninov’s music for orchestra – from the Scherzo in D minor, his first surviving piece for orchestra, completed just before his fifteenth birthday to the canonical works: the Symphonies and the Symphonic Dances.

The recordings were made between 2008 and 2015, with the three symphonies (previously released on separate discs) described as ‘eine formidable Gesamteinspielung’ on the website Pizzicato. But there is much more to Rachmaninov’s orchestral music besides the symphonies, and this box offers the listener opportunity to explore the young composer’s fascination with Gypsy themes (in the excerpts from the opera Aleko and Capriccio bohémien) as well as his lifelong preoccupation with death, in the form of the four notes of the Dies irae plainchant motif. This is heard again and again in Rachmaninov’s music, up until his very last work, the Symphonic Dances, where, at the very end of the third and final dance, this symbol of death is finally laid to rest.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui, conductor

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