Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Complete Preludes / Algarra

$21.99
Label
IBS Classical
Release Date
March 11, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff
    • PERFORMER
      Alejandro Algarra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 11, 2022
    • UPC
      8436597700252
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      IBS-242021
    • LABEL
      IBS Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical

This recording should be seen in that manner: as a beginning, a solo recording debut by Alejandro Algarra in which he confronts two colossi of the instrument. It is quite a recording milestone to tackle these two essentials. A real challenge both for him as a performer and for IBS Classical as a record label. So please do not be deceived by the apparent simplicity and unpretentiousness of the term prelude. Quite the opposite, in fact. Nor should a prelude be understood in this case as a prolegomenon to a major piece (“Preludes to what?”, as André Gide wondered in his famous Notes sur Chopin), but as individual works which, taken as a whole, represent a major technical and interpretative challenge; undoubtedly one of the all-time highs of piano literature.