| Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 |  | Creators: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Trpceski
Label: Avie
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Rating:  4 reviews
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 76 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 822252219227
EAN: 0822252219227
ASIN: B0035KTIKU
Release Date: March 1, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - I Moderato | | • | II Adagio sostenuto | | • | III Allegro scherzando | | • | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor - I Allegro ma non tanto | | • | II Intermezzo: Adagio | | • | III Finale: Alla breve |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best of the best August 31, 2010
D. E. Rowley (United Kingdom)
Truely sublime master class by a top class orchestra, conductor, and pianist.
Magical to say the least.
Relaxing March 30, 2010
L. Bailey (Buckinghamshire)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
Need some down time? Relax with the soothing sounds of these wonderfully performed piano concertos. Great at any time of the day.
Careful, noble readings which don't really take off March 25, 2010
Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I am still in two minds about these performances and might yet revise this, my initial response, but I find myself torn between two reactions: first, that this is first class music-making by sensitive musicians who have decided that the only way to approach music which has become a cliché is to re-think matters entirely, and go for a more cerebral, serious interpretation; secondly, that this very decision robs the music of a certain vulgar vitality essential to its nature. Of course, the second alternative is the direct result of the first decision. The Santa Fe listener has neatly anatomised the dilemma in his perceptive lead review on Amazon.com; if I want to hear Horowitz tear a passion to tatters in the Third I know where to go, but there must surely be room for this more considered version.
This disc certainly didn't take me by storm the way Petrenko's other recent Rachmaninov medley on Avie did. My appreciation of those performances and the fact that they almost instantly became my first choice for "The Isle of the Dead" and the "Symphonic Dances" led me to have high hopes of these concertos; that expectation has not been fulfilled but I do not want to dismiss these versions out of hand, as they might well repay careful re-listening. Trpceski is fleet and fluent in the passagework but, compared with the brilliant, breathless attack of, say, Byron Janis and Dorati on the old Mercury recording, the tempi set by him and Petrenko seem a bit tame and careful - although they create a kind of contemplative, melancholy quite other than the more traditional, barnstorming showmanship we have become used to.
Try to listen before you buy; meanwhile for me I think the jury is still out on this one.
 Disappointing 'vin ordinaire' March 9, 2010
S. Mitchell (Glasgow, Scotland)
19 out of 25 found this review helpful
As a lover of these concerti for over half a century, and possessor of 80 versions of the 3rd, I regretfully have to record my disappointment with this new recording. The 2nd holds little that's unpredictable, and to me only caught fire on the last 2 pages. It must be well nigh impossible to beat the immense competition in a work like this, and to overcome perfomer's over-familiarity. But that's what distinction in mainstream repertoire is all about. The 3rd's performance doesn't begin to eclipse Argerich, Janis, Cliburn or Horowitz. Petrenko and the RLPO are impressive, but Simon seems not yet ready to record this cruelly demanding piece. There is also a crucially exposed wrong note in the finale, which ruins repeated listening. Incandescence, guaranteed by only a live performance, and so essential, is missing. Sorry to be so negative, but these days only perfection of technique, aplomb, accompaniment, unity and recording quality will be acceptable in such key repertoire.
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