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

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BIS
Release Date
February 5, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RACHMANINOFF, SERGEI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Singapore Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Shui
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 05, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599925127
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2512
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo - Moderato - Allegro vivace - L'istesso tempo - Allegro molto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    2. II. Allegro animato - Meno mosso - Tempo I

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    3. III. Larghetto - Più mosso - Largo un poco - Con moto - Tempo I

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    4. IV. Allegro con fuoco - Marciale - Con animo - Allegro mosso - Allegro con fuoco - Presto - Largo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    5. Symphony in D Minor, "Youth"

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    6. Prince Rostislav

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    7. I. Largo - Allegro moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    8. II. Allegro molto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    9. III. Adagio

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    10. IV. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    11. 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    12. I. Lento - Allegro moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    13. II. Adagio ma non troppo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    14. III. Allegro

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    15. I. Non allegro

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    16. II. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    17. III. Lento assai - Allegro vivace - Lento assai - Come prima - Allegro vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    18. Utyos (The Rock), Op. 7

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    19. Introduction

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    20. Men's Dance

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    21. Intermezzo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    22. Women's Dance

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    23. Capriccio on Gypsy Themes, Op. 12, "Caprice bohémien"

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    24. Scherzo in D Minor

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    25. Skupoy ritsar' (The Miserly Knight), Op. 24: Prelude

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui

    26. Ostrov myortvikh (The Isle of the Dead), Op. 29

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Lan Shui


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)