Osokins Plays Chopin & Rachmaninoff

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Piano Classics
Release Date
April 30, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff
    • PERFORMER
      Georgijs Osokins
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 30, 2026
    • UPC
      5063758103664
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10366
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    2. I. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    3. II. Scherzo: Molto vivace

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    4. III. Largo

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    5. IV. Finale: Presto, non tanto

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    6. Mazurka No. 36 in A Minor, Op. 59, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    7. Mazurka No. 37 in A-Flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    8. Mazurka No. 38 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 59, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    9. Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    10. Polonaise No. 7 in A-Flat Major, Op. 61, "Polonaise-fantaisie"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    11. Variations in A Major, "Souvenir de Paganini"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    12. Theme: Largo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    13. Variation 1. Moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    14. Variation 2. Allegro

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    15. Variation 3

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    16. Variation 4

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    17. Variation 5. Meno mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    18. Variation 6. Meno mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    19. Variation 7. Allegro

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    20. Variation 8

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    21. Variation 9

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    22. Variation 10. Più vivo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    23. Variation 11. Lento

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    24. Variation 12. Moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    25. Variation 13. Largo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    26. Variation 14. Moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    27. Variation 15. Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    28. Variation 16. Lento

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    29. Variation 17. Grave

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    30. Variation 19. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    31. Variation 20. Presto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    32. Variation 21. Andante

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    33. Variation 22 and Coda. Maestoso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    34. Theme

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    35. 6 Songs, Op. 4: No. 3. V molchan'i nochi taynoy (In the Silence of the Secret Night) (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    36. 12 Songs, Op. 21: No. 7. Zdes' khorosho (How Fair this Spot) (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    37. Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 3. Mélodie in E Major

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    38. Morceaux de salon, Op. 10: No. 3. Barcarolle in G Minor

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    39. Fragments

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    40. 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    41. All-night Vigil, Op. 37, "Vespers": Nyne otpushchayeshi (Now let thy servant depart) (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins

    42. 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 5. Son (A Dream) (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Georgijs Osokins


An illuminating juxtaposition of keyboard giants bookending the Romantic age, by a pianist with a growing international reputation. The Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins made these recordings for Piano Classics between 2016 and 2018, and they attracted an enthusiastic critical response on their first issue. In Gramophone, Jeremy Nicholas welcomed a 'powerful and cleanly articulated reading' of Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Chopin, while the paired transcriptions 'provide further evidence of Osokins's stylistic identification with Rachmaninoff's idiom.' The Chopin album was made shortly after Osokins placed himself among the medal winners at the 2015 Chopin competition in Warsaw, where he divided opinion with interpretations which many found radical. Yet the coherence of his thinking is powerfully evident from the sequence which charts the 'late' thinking and keyboard writing of Chopin, as it ventures into poetic territories hitherto unexplored even by him, from the Third Piano Sonata through to the visionary Polonaise-Fantaisie. These are works that will perennially challenge and reward the most adventurous minds and musicians in any generation, and with this album Osokins placed himself among their number. In the following decade, Osokins has gone on to win first prize at the 2018 Manhattan International Music Competition in New York, and make an acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival, as well as several other recordings. He has also become the youngest-ever recipient of the Latvian Grand Music Award, the highest honour in the Latvian music industry. Such awards are recognition of the artistry which illuminates this album: a piercing musicianship which places itself at the service of the composer.