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Rachmaninov - Etudes tableaux, Op 33 and Op 39 | Chandos CHAN10391

Rachmaninov - Etudes tableaux, Op 33 and Op 39

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN10391

Barcode: 0095115139127

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st November 2006

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This new recording by Rustem Hayroudinoff offers a fresh interpretation of Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux, full recordings of which are rare. The music here represents some of Rachmaninov’s greatest piano music, universally loved and admired, and evocative and virtuosic.
Since his London debut in 1994, Rustem Hayroudinoff has performed in the US, Japan, Germany and Eastern Europe and has appeared at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues. The Etudes-Tableaux are recognised as an emotionally indispensable part of the virtuoso repertoire for most pianists.
Rachmaninov exploited the modern piano to produce elaborate tone poems of great emotional range. His first set of Etudes (Op.33) date from the summer of 1911, and the second set (Op.39) from 1917. These atmospheric solo piano pieces were essentially virtuoso showpieces for him to play while touring the world as a soloist, and were the last he composed in Russia before he emigrated. It seems that none were published during his lifetime, and only a few made it into print after his death in 1943. Rachmaninov pushed the boundaries of ‘picture studies’ even further than Chopin or Liszt, creating sets which are virtuosic in the extreme, with a tremendous passionate character and vivid rhythmic life.
Etudes Tableaux marked the virtual end of the nineteenth century virtuoso writings of the great composer pianists, and certainly Rachmaninov seemed to be writing less in the Russian tradition and more in the central and East-European tradition.

Rustem Hayroudinoff performs these difficult works with dazzling technique, and effortless fluidity.

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