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Like Chopin before him, and even more closely Scriabin, Rachmaninoff yielded to the temptation of writing his 24 Preludes, assembling this emblematic number in three stages. It began with a youthful work the famous Prelude in C-sharp minor. From this root, music deeply anchored in Russian soil, imbued with the Slavic soul to which the composer, later exiled, would remain forever attached, there would spring, a decade later, the Opus 23 set, followed seven years on by Opus 32. These Preludes are like images in an album that Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt invites us to leaf through, sonic paintings whose authentic colours of memory he poetically restores. Far from his native land, which he left for good, Rachmaninoff would never write this way again. Album Tracks 1. Prélude Op. 3 No. 2 en Do dièse mineur (in C sharp minor). Lento 2. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 1. Largo en Fa dièse mineur (in F sharp minor) 3. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 2. Maestoso en Si bémol majeur (in B flat major) 4. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 3. Tempo di minuetto en Ré mineur (in D minor) 5. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 4. Andante cantabile en Ré majeur (in D major) 6. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 5. Alla marcia en Sol mineur (in G minor) 7. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 6. Andante en Mi bémol majeur (in E flat major) 8. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 7. Allegro en Do mineur (in C minor) 9. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 8. Allegro vivace en La bémol majeur (in A flat major) 10. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 9. Presto en Mi bémol mineur (in E flat minor) 11. Dix Préludes Op. 23~No. 10. Largo en Sol bémol majeur (in G flat major) 12. Treize Préludes Op. 32~No. 1. Allegro vivace en Do majeur (in C major) 13. Treize Préludes Op. 32~No. 2. Allegretto en Si bémol mineur (in B flat minor) 14. Treize Préludes Op. 32~No. 3. Allegro vivace en Mi majeur (in E major) 15. Treize Préludes Op. 32~No. 4. Allegro con brio en Mi mineur
