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Anna Fedorova - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2022)

Anna Fedorova - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 206 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:45
Classical | Label: Channel Classics Records

With over 35 million views, Anna Fedorova's live performance of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto is the most viewed classical concerto video on YouTube. We are proud to release the long-awaited studio recording of this beloved concerto, together with Rachmaninoff's 4th Piano Concerto.
Leonard Bernstein - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos (1993)

Leonard Bernstein - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos (1993)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:00:37 | 303 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: 47618

Shostakovich's two Piano Concertos lack the seriousness of this four concertos for violin or cello. The first is actually a "double" concerto, having an important part for solo trumpet. It's an early but expertly written work sharing the same musical climate as the First Symphony. The Second Concerto was created for the composer's son Maxim, now a well-known conductor. It's a light- hearted, tongue-in-cheek piece with a Romantic slow movement.
Sequeira Costa, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Seaman - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2015)

Sequeira Costa, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Seaman - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 241 MB | 01:00:22
Genre: Classical | Label: Claudio

Sequiera Costa is a legend among pianists. In 1951 he was honoured with the Grand Prix de Paris at the Marguerite Long International Competition. Since receiving that momentous honour, he has played an important role in music history in our time. Dmitri Shostakovich invited him to join a distinguished body of jurors, which included Sviatoslav Richter, Dimitri Kabalevsky, Aram Khachaturian and Emil Gilels, for the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. As the youngest member of this prestigious jury, he was only a few years older than Van Cliburn, the winner of the competition.
Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra,  André Previn - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 (1996)

Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 (1996)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:14:23 | 588 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 4448392

Despite the recording dates, the sound and balance are superb, and there's nothing to cloud your sense of Ashkenazy's greatness in all these works. From him every page declares Rachmaninov's nationality, his indelibly Russian nature. What nobility of feeling and what dark regions of the imagination he relishes and explores in page after page of the Third Concerto. Significantly his opening is a very moderate Allegro ma non tanto, later allowing him an expansiveness and imaginative scope hard to find in other more 'driven' or hectic performances. His rubato is as natural as it's distinctive, and his way of easing from one idea to another shows him at his most intimately and romantically responsive.
Anna Fedorova - Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Anna Fedorova - Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 64:45 minutes | 998 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Mit über 35 Millionen Aufrufen ist Anna Fedorovas Live-Aufführung von Rachmaninoffs zweitem Klavierkonzert das meistgesehene klassische Konzertvideo auf YouTube.
Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 (2023)

Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (2023)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 669 Mb | Total time: 73:52+74:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 4759 | Recorded: 2023

To celebrate the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Yuja Wang joined the L.A. Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel to perform all four of the composer's piano concertos and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini over two consecutive weekends. This ambitious project took place at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the city where Rachmaninoff spent the last months of his life.
Howard Shelley, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 41: Kalkbrenner: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 (2006)

Howard Shelley, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 41: Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 57:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67535 | Recorded: 2005

More superlative performances of early 19th-century concerto repertoire from Howard Shelley and his Tasmanian Orchestra. Following on the heels of Moscheles and Herz, this time it’s Kalkbrenner, another of those virtuosi hugely acclaimed in their time and now forgotten. Kalkbrenner’s music bridges the gap between the classical and romantic styles and such was his fame that his presence in Paris resulted in that city becoming the pianistic centre of the romantic movement in the 1830s with Chopin, Liszt and Thalberg all basing themselves there; indeed Chopin originally planned to study with the older composer, only declining when Kalkbrenner told him he must not play in public for three years while under his tutelage.
Vadym Kholodenko & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra & Miguel Harth-Bedoya - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos No. 1, 3 & 4 (2019)

Vadym Kholodenko & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra & Miguel Harth-Bedoya - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos No. 1, 3 & 4 (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 262 MB | Digital Booklet | 01:10:27
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

After a first album as part of the harmonia nova collection, which resulted in a well-deserved Victoire de la Musique Classique (category new instrumental soloist), Bruno Philippe continues his path on the harmonia mundi label. This programme devoted to Rachmaninoff and the unfairly neglected Myaskovsky is a genuine technical and artistic challenge, which the young cellist has taken up in total harmony with his long-term musical partner Jérôme Ducros. How can one not be swept away by the swirling passions of these works, among the most romantic in Russian musical literature?
Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin - Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies (2023)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin - Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:20:45 | 844 / 456 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Rachmaninov’s symphonic career had a rocky start with the premiere of his First Symphony, now recognised as one of the great Russian symphonic works of the late 19th century. Both the powerful First Symphony and the gloriously melodic Second, with its lushly harmonic Adagio second movement, are haunted by the Dies irae chant melody. Rachmaninov considered his Third Symphony to be one of his finest works, alongside the exquisitely orchestrated and virtuosic Symphonic Dances. The enduring attraction of these symphonies is enhanced by the ‘impressive, highly desirable interpretations’ (Gramophone) in this acclaimed edition conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
Bernd Glemser, Antoni Wit - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1998)

Bernd Glemser, Antoni Wit - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:18:44 | 291 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.550809

This Naxos CD was released in 1998 and features 1995 recordings of Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 with the considerable bonus of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43. As is often the case with Naxos orchestral recordings of this vintage, the sound is a little distant but opens up to reveal more than adequate engineering at higher volume levels.