Show 211: Rachmaninov

by Boris Chaliapin

I discovered Rachmaninov late in life, so I haven't built up a large collection of his works; like any newbie, I have mostly sort of omnibus CD's; none of them actually advertise themselves as "The Last Rachy CD you'll Ever Need!!!", but they sort of are that.

Anyway, that's what this Saturday's show will be.

Remember, the next week it will be Halloween, and I will present something essentially similar to the show from last Halloween, with some updates.

Show 210: Mostly Music for Piano

My apologies, but the broadcast somehow was shorter than it should have been.  Anyway, here is the "podcast".  By the way, I have learned that there is a very specific file type called a podcast, which can be downloaded by a portable music player, but here we only have a bunch of mp3 files.

Part A

Introduction [Hélène Grimaud playing a transcriptions of the Bach organ fugue in A minor BWV 543]
Scarlatti: Piano Sonata, in D Minor, K 9 [Claudio Colombo]
Albinoni: Concerto a 5 in D minor  [I Musici, Heinz Holliger]
Mozart: Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor, K 310 [Walter Klien]


Part B

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, for piano, i - Prélude, ii - Fugue  [Kathryn Stott]

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, for orchestra, iii - Forlane  [Academy of St. Martin In-the-Fields]
Beethoven: Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata- Op 57, i - Allegro; ii - Andante; iii - Allegro [Vladimir Horowitz.  The Allegro is on Part C, below.]

Part C

Scriabin: Twenty Four Preludes Op 11 No 8 In F Sharp Minor [Mikhail Pletnev]Beethoven: Romance for Violin in F Major No 2 Op 50 [Igor Oistrakh]
Debussy: Images for piano, Set I, L 110- No 1- Reflets dans Leau  [Kathryn Stott]
Station Break - Tune


Part D

Waltz No 6 in D Flat [Denes Varjon]
Polonaise No 3 in A [Halina Czerny-Stefanska]
Fantaisie Impromptu Op 66 [Halina Czerny-Stefanska]
Mazurka in D minor No 2 [Denes Varjon]
Grande Valse Brillante [Halina Czerny-Stefanska]
Waltz No  7 in C Sharp minor [Dinu Lipatti]
Nocturne in E Flat No 2 [Denes Varjon]

Archie

Just a test: The whole show