Ashkenazy - a long-time champion of Rachmaninov's music - rattles it all off with a technical ease that borders on prestidigitatious. But there's also an innate sympathy with the musical language. The reworking of Tchaikovsky's Lullaby embodies all that's best in the art of transcription - it's both a loving homage and a distinctly personal poetic statement.
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Transcriptions
1-3. Suite from Partita for Violin E-dur (Bach)
4. Whoin? (Schubert)
5. Scherza from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
6. Minuet from L'ArlÈsienne Suite (Bizet)
7. Hopak from Sorochintsky Fair (Mussorgsky)
8. Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky Korsakov)
9. Lullaby op.16 no.1 (Tchaikovsky)
10. Polka de W.R. (after Behr: Scherzpolka)
11. Lilacs Op.21 No.5 (Rachmaninov)
12. Daisies Op.38 No.3 (Rachmaninov)
13. Liebesleid (Kreisler)
14. Liebesfreud (Kreisler)
Original Compositions
15-20. Six Morceaux op.11 (for piano 4 hands)
21. Waltz (for piano 6 hands)
22. Romance (for piano 6 hands)
23. Italian Polka (for piano 4 hands & trumpet)
Transcription
24. The Star Spangled Banner ((Smith)
Vladimir Ashkenazy - piano
Vovka Ashkenazy - piano (15-23)
DÛd˝ Ashkenazy - piano (21-22)
Alastair Mackie - trumpet (23)
Decca 470 291-2 (2002) Made in Germany
In Mint Condition / Top Zustand