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Rachmaninov: 4 Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody - Ashkenazy, Previn | Contrapunctus - May 30, 2023

Esoteric is going to release these recordings on June 17th. Given the already brilliant transfers out there, I'm definitely not interested.

Rachmaninov: 4 Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody - Ashkenazy, Previn | DYB - May 30, 2023

Contrapunctus, I agree. For me the Decca Japan issue is really spectacular. Esoteric's choices continue to confound me. So many of their recent issues have been released very ...

The Mercury Masters - Janis, Dorati, Menges, Kondrashin, Rozhdestvensky, Skrowaczewski

Mercury Living Presence  4853607

Stereo

Classical - Orchestral

Works by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, de Falla, Guion, Chopin, Pinto, Mussorgsky, Mozart, Copland

Byron Janis (piano)
Minnesota Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati, Herbert Menges, Kyrill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductors)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Resolutions (1)

• 2.0 LPCM 24bit/96kHz

Works (29)

• Frederic Chopin: Études, Op. 10: No. 5 in G flat major
• Frederic Chopin: Études, Op. 25: No. 3 in F major
• Frederic Chopin: Sonata for Piano No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35
• Frederic Chopin: Waltz No. 3, Op. 34: No. 2 in A minor 'Valse brillante'
• Aaron Copland: Sonata for Piano (1941)
• Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos - Ballet (1919)
• David Guion: The Harmonica-Player
• Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage: Year 2 Italie, S. 161: No. 5 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
• Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124
• Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in A major, S. 125
• Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S. 244: No. 6 in D flat major
• Franz Liszt: Valses oubliées, S. 215: No. 1
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Songs Without Words for Piano Book 5 No. 2, MWV U 181 Op. 62
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano No. 5 in G major, K. 283/189h
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition for Piano (1874)
• Octavio Pinto: Three Scenes from Childhood
• Serge Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
• Serge Prokofiev: Toccata for Piano in D minor, Op. 11
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie for Piano, Op. 3 No. 2 Prelude in C sharp minor
• Sergei Rachmaninov: Preludes for Piano, Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major
• Robert Schumann: Arabeske for Piano in C major, Op. 18
• Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
• Robert Schumann: Novelletten for Piano, Op. 21
• Robert Schumann: Romances for Piano, Op. 28 No. 2 in F sharp major
• Robert Schumann: Sonata for Piano No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in B flat minor, TH 55 Op. 23

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