Rachmaninov - Etudes-Tableaux
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Label: Muso
Cat No: MU036
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th April 2020
Contents
Artists
Alberto Ferro (piano)About
The Etudes-Tableaux op.33 were composed in 1910 in Rachmaninov’s tranquil country treat; the nine others, op.39, date from 1916/17 and were the last pieces he write in Moscow, shortly before his American exile. At the time Rachmaninov was already the composer of a consequential catalogue for solo piano; the writing for ‘his’ instrument had this attained a very high level of sophistication and subtlety adding to an incomparable understanding of the instrument’s powers of expression. The designation ‘Etude-Tableau’ is Rachmaninov’s own; close the the formal level of Chopin’s Ballades, they allow poetic interpretation even though they are entirely constructed from musical and technical ideas. The Russian master let slip very few indications concerning the precise extra-musical links that might have been at the origin of his works. He did reveal his precise sources of inspiration to Respighi who orchestrated five of his miniatures; however, for the others, Rachmaninov never provided the lsightest context, leaving it to the listener to work on his imagination!
The virtuosity required for these albums is far from being an end in itself, it being rather the means of expression for the feelings to be expressed. These two collections are marked by the dazzling liveliness of this music: at times virile and imperious, at times subtle and discreet, yet always at the service of an astonishingly broad palette of emotions.
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