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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Paganini Rhapsody.(Sound Recording Review)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Paganini Rhapsody. Lang Lang, piano; Valery Gergiev, Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre. DG B000390202.
Yet another live recording. Ho-hum. I'm not sure why DG, EMI, and others are so keen lately on recording everything before a live audience, but it isn't helping the sonics of the recordings any. Well, at least we're spared the applause.
Young pianist Lang Lang shows a mature approach to Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, appropriately focusing his attention on the work's long sigh of a second movement rather than on the portentous introduction or the overtly romanticized finale. But his virtuoso technique is even more amply displayed in the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, where his fingers dazzle and the keyboard lights up. I'm not sure these performances are any ...
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