Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 2; Balakirev: Islamey
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Composer: Mily BalakirevComposer: Anatol Lyadov
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Composer: Sergey Taneyev
Performer: Olga Kern
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Allegro agitato
- Non allegro
- L'istesso tempo - Allegro molto
- 1. ?l?gie
- 2. Pr?lude
- 3. M?lodie (second version, 1940)
- 4. Polichinelle
- 5. S?r?nade (second version, 1940)
- Prelude
- Fugue
- No. 1. Prelude in D flat major
Free Music Notes for Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 2; Balakirev: Islamey
Free Music Review: A Superlative Musician
Hit: 5 Stars
The pantheon of brilliant women keybord artists is large: preserved for us are extraordinary performances by Dame Myra Hess, Ruth Slencynska, Wanda Landowska, Gina Bachauer, Alicia de Larrocha, Lili Kraus, Martha Argerich, Helene Grimaud, and now the fiery Russian Olga Kern. For a treat, find (or Netflix) the 2001 Van Cliburn DVD, "Playing on the Edge," and see her show a tattered copy of Rachmaninoff music that has been in her family for decades. Her Mom, she says with a smile,"could not live without music." Olga wins a gold medal with a passionate performance of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3. Since then New Yorkers and others around the world have warmed to her. Her CD "Rachmaninov/Balakirev" features Sergei's iconic Sonata No. 2. She is fearless at the piano, capable of high drama but also the utmost delicacy. Her playing of Rachmaninoff's haunting "Elegie" in E Flat Minor (finger food--six flats!) is alone worth the price of the CD, which includes works by Taneyev, Liadov and Balakirev. Conjecture: if Glenn Gould could rightly be considered the "son" of Bach, surely Olga is the "daughter" of Rachmaninoff. And we who love music are the beneficiaries of their towering genius.
Beverly Crandall
Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 2; Balakirev: Islamey Poster
This is a fascinating, unusual collection of Russian piano music. Kern, a gold medal winner at the 2001 Cliburn Competition, mixes familiar music with novelties in an intelligently programmed recital. We get Rachmaninov's over-familiar Prelude in C Sharp Minor in the context of the otherwise unfamiliar Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, of which it is the second piece. Balakirev's notorious fingerbuster Islamey is preceded by his rarely-heard In the Garden. Most unusually, Kern includes the Prelude and Fugue in G Sharp Minor by Sergei Taneyev, pupil of Tchaikovsky and teacher of Rachmaninov, considered one of Russia's most important composers by Russians and mostly unknown elsewhere. Kern's playing is colorful, fluent, and convincing throughout most of the recital, and she makes Rachmaninov's Second Piano Sonata less bombastic and more attractive than usual. She rather falls apart in Islamey, though, introducing strange pauses at the ends of phrases and generally showing the strain of the murderous writing. Up to that point, the disc has more than an hour of excellent playing, and thus it's still very much worth hearing. --Leslie GerberClassical Music CDs
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