Piano Concerto no. 2 / Three Preludes
Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent & Dame Moura Lympany
Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Three Preludes are classical works by Sergei Rachmaninov, composed in 1900-1901 and in the 1890s respectively. The concerto is a Romantic piano work that combines sweeping melodies, dense orchestration and virtuosic piano writing, while the preludes are shorter piano pieces that use compact forms and expressive harmonic language, and both belong to his early output where he developed melodic and pianistic traits later seen in his compositions.
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- 1.Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: I. Allegro moderato
- 2.Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
- 3.Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: III. Allegro scherzando
- 4.Prelude in D major, op. 23 no. 4
- 5.Prelude in G major, op. 32 no. 5
- 6.Prelude in G-sharp minor, op. 32 no. 12
