Classical Music Discoveries

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

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