Rachmaninoff 13 Preludes, ( Hayroudinoff, Ashkenazy, Various)
Rachmaninoff s preludes are spectacular, but in the preludes he outdoes himself: these are even more bewilderingly exploratory in harmony, even more in love with staggering contrasts, even more colourfully contrapuntal. No. 1 A dense, brooding firecracker that s built almost entirely around rising themes. No. 2 A cunning combination of siciliano rhythm with neoRomantic harmony: two successive waves of accelaration don t quite manage to shake off the essentially resigned tone of this work.
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