Rachmaninoff,S. / Prjevalskaya,Marianna - Marianna Prjevalskaya Plays Rachmaninoff - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The choral music of Johannes Brahms spans much of his career as a composer. It's influences range from folk music to contrapuntal masterworks of the Renaissance and Baroque. Musicology has in it's infancy in the Romantic period, and Brahms was fascinated with 'old' music, especially the works of Bach. This illuminating selection of a cappella choral music features the supreme talents of the Swedish Radio Choir led by Peter Dijkstra.

Haydn's Andante con variazioni is a masterpiece of fantasy and expression in which the alternation of themes provides ever-changing variety. Domenico Scarlatti's Sonatas revel in color and rhythmic vivacity with the G minor, K.450 luxuriating in a 'Spanish Tango' of great originality. Robert Schumann told his wife to be, Clara, that the Sonata in F sharp minor, so rich in poetry and passion, was 'a cry from my heart to yours'. Marianna Prjevalskaya is a laureate of numerous international piano competitions, including the Paderewski (2007), Seoul (2008), Jose Iturbi (2008), Sendai (2010) and Maria Canals (2011).

Although Rubinstein did not play many works by Rachmaninov, he made four recordings of the Piano Concerto No. 2.