Rachmaninov: Étude-tableaux, Preludes etc

This excellently chosen selection of Rachmaninov’s finest solo piano works is played with superb panache by Demidenko, even if he lacks Richter’s sovereign penetration and virtuosity. With a warm acoustic, a most appealing disc. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:04 pm

COMPOSERS: Rachmaninov
LABELS: Helios
ALBUM TITLE: Rachmaninov
WORKS: Étude-tableaux, Preludes etc
PERFORMER: Nikolai Demidenko (piano) (1994)
CATALOGUE NO: CDH 55239

This excellently chosen selection of Rachmaninov’s finest solo piano works is played with superb panache by Demidenko, even if he lacks Richter’s sovereign penetration and virtuosity. With a warm acoustic, a most appealing disc. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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