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Editorial Review:

Unlike most composer/pianists, Rachmaninoff's instrumental prowess was fully commensurate with his creative gifts. He embraces his youthful First Concertos as if he had encountered an old lover, consumating his passion with stupefying fingerwork in the first movement cadenza. Conversely, the composer seems bored in the Third. He laconically dispatches its torrents of notes, opts for the easier ossias in difficult passages, and makes cuts in the first and third movements. And pianists like Arturo Michelangeli and Earl Wild have recorded more incisive, demonic Rach Fourths. No question about the Paganini Rhapsody and Second Concerto, where Rachmaninoff's fierce authority and luscious, molten tone permeate every bar. RCA's transfers, however, could have been better. --Jed Distler

作为指挥家的拉赫玛尼诺夫在他作为钢琴家时拥有典型素质，他外在稳着沉静，手势不多，同时代承认他对乐队队员和听众都有一股催眠影响力，他服从于严谨的艺术构思。被称为“理想的表演战略家”，钢琴表演史上最杰出的艺术家之一。他在这个狭窄的领域中创造出一个美妙绝伦的世界。本碟获留声机优质CD指南推荐。是乐迷们的必然之选。