Per Vollestad - Songs with Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Mixtion 2. New York Counterpoint 3. Sequenza Viib 4. Ruth's Piece 5. L'air D'ailleurs - Bicinium 6. Aulodie

The transcripts of Sergey Rachmaninoff enjoyed great respect among pianists during the composer's lifetime. In addition to piano concertos, preludes, etudes and Variations on a Theme of Correlli, Rachmaninoff's arrangements were gradually becoming the composer's showcase. On the one hand, each work of this kind enables the display of purely virtuoso skills, while on the other, due to the often dense texture, it prompts us to seek a way of presenting harmonic and polyphonic consonances. This album by Ivan Shemchuk includes a collection of these piano arrangements, enriched with the popular cycle of 6 Morceaux for 4 hands, op. 11.

Album Tracks 1. Answer Me, My Harp 2. March Evening 3. In the Hazel Hollow 4. Summer Fair 5. The Old Apple Tree 6. Wild Seed 7. Watching and Waiting 8. Northern Light 9. The Horsemen 10. The Key 11. Then They Rowed the Fjords 12. The Fiddle 13. The Zither 14. The Willow Flute 15. Foxgloves 16. Snow 17. Black Crosses 18. Evening in the Inlet 19. Softly the Oars Cut 20. Carrying Grief