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Rachmaninoff: Symphonies & Orchestral Music / Lan Shui, Singapore Symphony
BIS

Rachmaninoff: Symphonies & Orchestral Music / Lan Shui, Singapore Symphony

$44.99

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Composer
RACHMANINOFF, SERGEI
Artist
Shui
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 05, 2021
Catalog #
BIS-2512
UPC
7318599925127

About

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 albums) 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 bohemien) 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.

REVIEWS:

It would be difficult to imagine a more compelling or indeed idiomatic account of the First Symphony than Shui’s...this is a first-rate set, with sound to match.

-- HiFi (UK)

Tracklist 26 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo - Moderato - Allegro vivace - L'istesso tempo - Allegro molto 14:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo - Moderato - Allegro vivace - L'istesso tempo - Allegro molto
    Duration
    14:35
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  3. 2 II. Allegro animato - Meno mosso - Tempo I 08:36
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro animato - Meno mosso - Tempo I
    Duration
    08:36
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  4. 3 III. Larghetto - Più mosso - Largo un poco - Con moto - Tempo I 09:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Larghetto - Più mosso - Largo un poco - Con moto - Tempo I
    Duration
    09:41
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  5. 4 IV. Allegro con fuoco - Marciale - Con animo - Allegro mosso - Allegro con fuoco - Presto - Largo 12:15
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro con fuoco - Marciale - Con animo - Allegro mosso - Allegro con fuoco - Presto - Largo
    Duration
    12:15
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  6. 5 Symphony in D Minor, "Youth" 14:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    Symphony in D Minor, "Youth"
    Duration
    14:16
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  7. 6 Prince Rostislav 14:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    Prince Rostislav
    Duration
    14:30
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  8. Disc 2
  9. 1 I. Largo - Allegro moderato 22:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Largo - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    22:04
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  10. 2 II. Allegro molto 09:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro molto
    Duration
    09:47
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  11. 3 III. Adagio 14:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    14:41
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  12. 4 IV. Allegro vivace 14:13
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    14:13
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  13. 5 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor (version for orchestra) 05:53
    Track
    5
    Title
    14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor (version for orchestra)
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  14. Disc 3
  15. 1 I. Lento - Allegro moderato 17:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Lento - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    17:56
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  16. 2 II. Adagio ma non troppo 12:19
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio ma non troppo
    Duration
    12:19
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  17. 3 III. Allegro 13:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    13:59
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  18. 4 I. Non allegro 11:51
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Non allegro
    Duration
    11:51
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  19. 5 II. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) 10:34
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)
    Duration
    10:34
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  20. 6 III. Lento assai - Allegro vivace - Lento assai - Come prima - Allegro vivace 14:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Lento assai - Allegro vivace - Lento assai - Come prima - Allegro vivace
    Duration
    14:09
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  21. Disc 4
  22. 1 Utyos (The Rock), Op. 7 14:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    Utyos (The Rock), Op. 7
    Duration
    14:21
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  23. 2 Introduction 02:24
    Track
    2
    Title
    Introduction
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  24. 3 Men's Dance 04:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    Men's Dance
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  25. 4 Intermezzo 02:51
    Track
    4
    Title
    Intermezzo
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  26. 5 Women's Dance 04:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    Women's Dance
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  27. 6 Capriccio on Gypsy Themes, Op. 12, "Caprice bohémien" 18:27
    Track
    6
    Title
    Capriccio on Gypsy Themes, Op. 12, "Caprice bohémien"
    Duration
    18:27
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  28. 7 Scherzo in D Minor 04:43
    Track
    7
    Title
    Scherzo in D Minor
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  29. 8 Skupoy ritsar' (The Miserly Knight), Op. 24: Prelude 06:28
    Track
    8
    Title
    Skupoy ritsar' (The Miserly Knight), Op. 24: Prelude
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui
  30. 9 Ostrov myortvikh (The Isle of the Dead), Op. 29 20:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ostrov myortvikh (The Isle of the Dead), Op. 29
    Duration
    20:02
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Ensemble
    Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Lan Shui