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Rachmaninov - Etudes-tableaux
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA68188
Barcode: 0034571281889
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 27th July 2018
Even in the thorniest and complex passages, Osborne clearly articulates and accents the key notes, bringing them out as if they were landmarks on a road map, and as soon as he's played the first note, he already has the last one in his sights. It's playing on a superior level. I keep listening over and over again to the Op. 39 no. 1 and Op. 39 no. 5 because I can't believe what I'm hearing. The music speaks for itself and becomes a force of its own that pulls you deeper and deeper into Rachmaninov's mind. 
Steven Osborne’s thrilling new recording leaves no doubt of the 
Each little gem sounds like the composer at the piano, testing a theme for possibilities, giving it alternate measures of lightness and weight, and then setting it aside to tinker with another passing thought. There is neither ego nor assertion in this account. It is exploratory, improvisatory, analytical, self-critical … [Osborne is] my kind of pianist. 
Rachmaninov allowed Ottorino Respighi to orchestrate five of these short piano works, providing him with descriptions so specific (sea and seagulls; scene at a fair; an oriental march), you wonder about the silence concerning the rest. It instils the works with a certain mystery, captured imaginatively and authoritatively by Steven Osborne (on Hyperion). As Rachmaninov said, “a small piece can become as lasting a masterpiece as a large work”. Osborne proves his point. 
