Description
| [1] Prelude C-sharp minor (Morceaux de Fantaisie, op.3/2) (4/1928) 3:41 |
| [2] Prelude, op.32/6 in F minor: Allegro appassionato (3/1940) 1:19 |
| [3] Beethoven: Variations on Original Theme in C minor, |
| WoO 80 (excerpts) (4/1924 to 5/1925) 7:53 |
| [4] Chopin: Ballade no.3 in A-flat major, op.47 (13/4/1925) 7:21 |
| [5] Chopin: Waltz no.7 in C-sharp minor, op.64 no.2 (5/4/1927) 3:37 |
| [6] Chopin: Waltz no.8 in A-flat major, op.64 no.3 (5/4/1927) 2:46 |
| [7] Mendelssohn’s ’Scherzo’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream op.61) |
| Arr. for piano Rachmaninov, 1933 (23/12/1935) 3:59 |
| [8] Rimsky-Korsakov’s ’Flight of the Bumblebee’ (‘The Tale of |
| the Tsar Sultan’) arr. for piano Rachmaninov, 1929 (4/1929) 1:10 |
| [9] Tchaikovsky: Troïka (The Seasons, op.37a X1)(11/4/1928) 3:54 |
| [10] Carl Tausig: Valse-Caprice no. 2 (Nouvelle soirées de Vienne) |
| for piano: ‚Man lebt nur einmal’ (after Strauss Jr, op.167) (4/1927) 6:57 |
| [11] Kreisler’s ’Liebeslied’ for piano, TN iii/5 (25/10/1921) |
| (arr. Rachmaninov 1921 from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen No.1) 4:19 |
| Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.118 [31:11] |
| (with Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski (rec. 1929) |
| [12] 1. Moderato 9:46 [13] 2. Adagio sostenuto 10:37 |
| [14] 3. Allegro scherzando 10:47 |
“His playing presents a delicious paradox… individualistic almost to the point of recreation, while so utterly natural, so profoundly honest, you could hardly imagine the music otherwise. [Beethoven Variations[: tautness of playing, absolute rhythmic security, burbling pianissimos, knife-edged sforzandos, artful rubato and unremitting sense of purpose … delicate observations occur by the bar … [trans-criptions]: (Mendelssohn; Rimsky-Korsakov; Tchaikovsky):
