 Rachmaninov:
Piano Concertos 1-4
Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Rachmaninov: The man himself, with his
own fingers (all four concertos included |
 Rachmaninov/Tchaikovsky
- Piano Concertos
Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music
Rachmaninov: Definitive Second concerto played by Richter
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 Rachmaninov
- Piano Concerto 3 & Suite 2
Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music
Rachmaninov: Definitive Third concerto played by Argerich
(Philips; it used to be owned by Horowitz and Byron Yanis
before, but now Marta is the queen...)
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 Preludes
Etudes Elegie: Piano Works
Bortkiewicz (Artist), Katsaris (Artist)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Bortkiewicz: Beautiful introduction to a
forgotten master of the piano played with a rare combination of
technical virtuosity and emotion by Katsaris
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 Romantic
Piano Concertos, Vol.4
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Bortkiewicz: Piano concerto No.1
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 Stravinsky,
Vol.7 - Chamber Music
Igor Stravinsky (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Stravinsky: The composer himself playing
solo piano and chamber pieces
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 Medtner
- Complete Piano Sonatas
Nikolay Karlovich Medtner (Composer), Marc-André Hamelin
(Performer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music Medtner: The famous
Hamelin full set of sonatas - technically perfect, but lacking
the full emotion (compare with the recordings on Russian Disc
for constrast) |
 Medtner
- Piano Concertos
Nikolay Karlovich Medtner (Composer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music
Medtner: Demidenko playing at full speed No.2 and No.3 (second
Hyperion CD from the Romatntic Pianoc Concertos series with
Alexeev on the piano completes the set) |
 Medtner:
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 [IMPORT]
Nikolay Karlovich Medtner (Composer),
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Medtner: All three piano concertos played
by Scherbakov for the budget label are worth full price |
 Medtner/Rachmaninov:
Music for Two Pianos
Nikolay Karlovich Medtner (Composer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music
Medtner: Piano for two hands played by the technically superb
Russian duo Demidenko-Alexeev |
 Roslavets
- Piano Works
Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets (Composer), Marc-André Hamelin
(Performer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music Roslavets: Hamelin is to
Roslavets what Pollini is to Schoenberg - cold, but perfect; the
piano here sounds absolutely fresh (Hyperion) |
 Schnittke/Stravinsky
- Piano Works
Alfred Schnittke (Composer) Russian Piano Audio CD Music
Stravinsky: Boris Berman plays a set of solo piano pieces (Chandos;
cheaper alternative is Peter Hill on Naxos, playing both solo
and four hands works with Benjamin Frith) |
 Stanchinsky
- Piano Works
Alexey Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (Composer), Daniel Blumenthal
(Performer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Stanchinsky: Scriabinesque piano with a
touch of other graeat contemporaries, rarely appearing on CD.
Unfortunately, Stanchincky died young in tragic circumstances
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 Shostakovich
- Chamber Symphony; Schnittke - Concerto for Piano & Strings
Alfred Schnittke (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Schnittke: Terrific concerto for piano
and strings recorded by Moscow Chamber Orchestra in studio. Both
sound and playing on this CD are by far superior to the other
two available from Chandos |
 Stanchinsky
- Piano Works
Alexey Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (Composer), Nikolai Fefilov
(Performer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Stanchinsky: Another collection
containing different selection of piano works played by Fefilov
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 Alexandrov
- Piano Music
Anatoli Alexandrov (Composer), Hamish Milne (Performer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Alexandrov: Another forgotten from the
pleyad of Russian piano masters, living in the Soviet era; not
so avantguarde as some of his contemporaries |
 Prokofiev
Plays Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Prokofiev: Incredible CD! Only the CDs by
Rachmaninov playing his own works are comparable to this gem
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 Khachaturian:
Piano Concerto; Gayaneh Ballet Suite; Masquerade Suite
Aram Khachaturian (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Khachaturian: Piano concerto played by
his American compatriot Orbelian |
 Prokofiev
- Piano Works
Sergey Prokofiev (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Prokofiev: Concerto No.5 coupled with
Sonata No.8 and Vision Fugitives - all they championed by
Richter
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 Prokofiev/Ravel
- Piano Concertos
Sergey Prokofiev (Composer)
Russian Piano Audio CD Music Prokofiev: Concerto No.3 executed by the
other champion, Martha Argerich; had a chance to
hear her playing the same concert at Royal Festival Hall in
London |
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