William Kapell Edition Vol 3 - Rachmaninoff: Concerto No 2

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Sony Masterworks
Release Date
February 8, 2000
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RACHMANINOV, SERGEI
    • PERFORMER
      William Kapell
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 08, 2000
    • UPC
      090266899227
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      09026689922
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    2. Theme: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    3. Variation 2: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    4. Variation 3: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    5. Variation 4: Più vivo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    6. Variation 5: Tempo precedente

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    7. Variation 6: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    8. Variation 7: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    9. Variation 8: Tempo I

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    10. Variation 9: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    11. Variation 10: Poco marcato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    12. Variation 11: Moderato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    13. Variation 12: Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    14. Variation 13: Allegro

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    15. Variation 14: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    16. Variation 15: Più vivo scherzando

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    17. Variation 16. Allegretto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    18. Variation 17: (Allegretto)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    19. Variation 18: Andante cantabile

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    20. Variation 19: A tempo vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    21. Variation 20: Un poco più vivo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    22. Variation 21: Un poco più vivo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    23. Variation 22: Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    24. Variation 23. L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    25. Variation 24: A tempo un poco meno mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

    26. I. Moderato - Allegro

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

      Conductor: William Steinberg

    27. II. Adagio sostenuto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

      Conductor: William Steinberg

    28. III. Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Performer: William Kapell

      Conductor: William Steinberg

    29. Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2. Prélude in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: William Kapell

    30. No. 24. in D Minor

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: William Kapell

    31. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: William Kapell

    32. No. 5 in D Major

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: William Kapell


This re-release of William Kapell's 1951 recording of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with Fritz Reiner and the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra will hopefully serve as a corrective to the many pianists who take this work at dreadfully slow tempos. The fleet and bright Kapell-Reiner reading makes this work's theme and 24 variations cohere in a way that eludes so many other interpretations--as an extended, precise, and often frenetic dance and thus not, in this way, unlike Ravel's 'Bolero.' Such a reading not only teases out a most appropriate Paganinian mania in the faster variations but also rescues the slower ones, like the eighth (here given a cool, easy swing), from sounding like dirges.
Whether under the direction of Reiner or, as with the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2, under William Steinberg, the woodwind soloists of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra are exemplary, while the strings (especially under Reiner) shimmer. The concerto possesses many moments that require careful advanced staging; otherwise, the work runs the risk of sounding tunefully episodic. With Steinberg keeping the ensemble super-tight throughout all three movements, he and Kapell stage these moments brilliantly.