Product DescriptionRachmaninov's symphonies and piano concertos - with their expansive, surging melodies, their rich colours and their haunting air of melancholy - seem to capture the very essence of the Russian soul. The composer became an exile from his homeland, but for these recordings - made when Leningrad had once again become St Petersburg - conductor Mariss Jansons returned to the orchestra with which he had first learned his craft.
CD Listing
CD 1: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Piano Concerto No. 2
CD 2: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Piano Concerto No. 4
CD 3: Symphony No. 1, The Isle of the Dead, Scherzo in D Minor & Vocalise
CD 4: Symphony No. 2 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
CD 5: Symphony No. 3 & Symphonic Dances