Ivan Shemchuk (piano) - Rachmaninoff - Piano Transcriptions / DUX Recording Audio CD 2019 / DUX 1670

UPC 5902547016702

The transcripts of Sergey Rachmaninoff enjoyed great respect among pianists during the composers lifetime. In addition to piano concertos, preludes, etudes and Variations on a Theme of Correlli, Rachmaninoffs arrangements were gradually becoming the composers showcase. On the one hand, each work of this kind enables the display of purely virtuoso skills, while on the other, due to the often dense texture, it prompts us to seek a way of presenting harmonic and polyphonic consonances. This album by Ivan Shemchuk includes a collection of these piano arrangements, enriched with the popular cycle of 6 Morceaux for 4 hands, op. 11. 

Tracklist:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

1-3 Preludio, Gavotte en Rondeau and Gigue

     from Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006   9:11

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

4   Minuet from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1   3:09

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

5   Love's Sorrow   4:36

6   Love's Joy   8:01

Felix Mendelsspohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

7   Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream suite   5:35

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

8   Gopak from opera The fair at Sorochyntsi   2:01

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

9   Fight of the Bumblebee from opera

     The Tale of Tsar Saltan    1:15

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

10  Where to? from The Beautiful Maid Of The Mill, Op- 25, D. 795   3:05

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

11  Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1   4:53

Sergei Rachmaninoff

12  Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3   2:40

13  Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5   2:52

14-19  6 Pieces for piano 4 hands, Op. 11   28:51

• Piano - Ivan Shemchuk, Alina Andriuti