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Sonata for Piano No. 2 in B flat minor
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
with Frederick Kempf
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Etudes-tableaux
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
with Frederick Kempf
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Liebesleid
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Wilhelm Kempff
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Here is the 1913 version of Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata No. 2, a work steeped in the same gargantuan romanticism as the Piano Concerto No. 3. The sonata offers colourfully intense and heartfelt music, very Russian, clearly descended from Tchaikovsky, but more akin to Scriabin's dazzling Piano Sonatas. The second set of Etudes-tableaux are nine pieces of grave and rapturous beauty, mainly composed in the winter of 1916-17, and thus the last music Rachmaninov completed before leaving Moscow for America. The Russian Revolution was less than a year old, and the composer's own father had died recently. Little wonder that such passionate music resulted, yet what astonishes is the lyrical warmth and sunlight amid the darkness.
The brilliant young British pianist Freddy Kempf, who played a Mozart piano concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra aged 8, is a great favourite in Moscow. It is easy to see why, for he takes hold of this immensely demanding work with great confidence, has the technical ability to match his emotional commitment, and gets so far inside the music as to really bring it alive in a way which is at once epic and intimate. --Gary S. Dalkin
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