Rachmaninoff 150th
Los Angeles, the city in which Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) spent the last few months of his life, played host to an exceptional festival of music last February. As part of this year’s Rachmaninoff 150 celebrations, Yuja Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel over two consecutive weekends to perform all four of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Deutsche Grammophon were there to capture their sold-out and critically acclaimed performances live at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody is now set for release on 2 CDs, 3 LPs and digitally on 1 September 2023. The Allegro vivace finale of Piano Concerto No. 1 comes out as an e single and e video on 23 June; the filmed cycle of five performances will be premiered on STAGE+ on 24 June and will also be available on the LA Phil’s online concert series SOUND/STAGE later in September.
Track Listing:
1 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor op. 18 – 1. Moderato
2 2. Adagio sostenuto
3 3. Allegro scherzando
4 Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor op. 1 – 1. Vivace – Moderato
5 2. Andante
6 3. Allegro vivace
7 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor op. 40 – 1. Allegro vivace
8 2. Largo
9 3. Allegro vivace
10 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op. 43 – Introduction – Variation I
11 Tema
12 Variation II
13 Variation III
14 Variation IV
15 Variation V
16 Variation VI
17 Variation VII
18 Variation VIII
19 Variation IX
20 Variation X
21 Variation XI
22 Variation XII
23 Variation XIII
24 Variation XiV
25 Variation XV
26 Variation XVI
27 Variation XVII
28 Variation XVIII
29 Variation XiX
30 Variation XX
31 Variation XXI
32 Variation XXII
33 Variation XXIII
34 Variation XXIV
35 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor op. 30 – 1. Allegro ma non tanto
36 2. Intermezzo. Adagio
37 3. Finale. Alla breve