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Rachmaninov - "The Bells", Symphonic Dances | Haenssler Profil PH07028

Rachmaninov - "The Bells", Symphonic Dances

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Label: Haenssler Profil

Cat No: PH07028

Barcode: 0881488702859

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th July 2007

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Contents

Artists

Wdr Rundfunkchor Koln
Lege Artis Chamber Choir
Tatiana Pavlovskaya (soprano)
Evgeny Akimov (tenor)
Vladimir Vaneev (baritone)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln

Conductor

Semyon Bychkov

Works

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Symphonic Dances, op.45
The Bells, op.35

Artists

Wdr Rundfunkchor Koln
Lege Artis Chamber Choir
Tatiana Pavlovskaya (soprano)
Evgeny Akimov (tenor)
Vladimir Vaneev (baritone)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln

Conductor

Semyon Bychkov

About

Rachmaninov annotated his scores with extraordinarily precise technical indications and detailed performance instructions. The numerous recordings we have of him as a pianist and conductor show how necessary strict adherence to his stipulations is. 
 
Interpreted accordingly, the saccharine and sentimental qualities ascribed to his music give way to magnificent beauty and honest melancholy.
 
That is the view taken by Semyon Bychkov, who conducts the present recordings: “Rachmaninov was so often seen as the composer of pretty, rather banal melodies, but I believe we are now free enough to regard him more objectively and less ideologically. And if we do, it becomes apparent that this music was written by a man of great intellect, a master of musical form, a master of orchestral treatment, who continued to develop throughout the course of his life.”

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