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Los Angeles, the city in which Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) spent the last few months of his life, played host to an exceptional festival of music last February. As part of this year’s Rachmaninoff 150 celebrations, Yuja Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel over two consecutive weekends to perform all four of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Deutsche Grammophon were there to capture their sold-out and critically acclaimed performances live at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody is now set for release on 2 CDs, 3 LPs, and digitally on 1 September 2023. The Allegro vivace finale of Piano Concerto No. 1 comes out as an e-single and e-video on 23 June; the filmed cycle of five performances will be premiered on STAGE+ on 24 June and will also be available on the LA Phil’s online concert series SOUND/STAGE later in September.
Track Listing: 1 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor op. 18 – 1. Moderato 2 2. Adagio sostenuto 3 3. Allegro scherzando 4 Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor op. 1 – 1. Vivace – Moderato 5 2. Andante 6 3. Allegro vivace 7 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor op. 40 – 1. Allegro vivace 8 2. Largo 9 3. Allegro vivace 10 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op. 43 – Introduction – Variation I 11 Tema 12 Variation II 13 Variation III 14 Variation IV 15 Variation V 16 Variation VI 17 Variation VII 18 Variation VIII 19 Variation IX 20 Variation X 21 Variation XI 22 Variation XII 23 Variation XIII 24 Variation XiV 25 Variation XV 26 Variation XVI 27 Variation XVII 28 Variation XVIII 29 Variation XiX 30 Variation XX 31 Variation XXI 32 Variation XXII 33 Variation XXIII 34 Variation XXIV 35 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor op. 30 – 1. Allegro ma non tanto 36 2. Intermezzo. Adagio 37 3. Finale. Alla breve
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