One of the most popular and successful pieces of music written for piano. This album also has the benefit of being one of the best sounding LPs ever made. Side 2 contains a very fine Nights In The Gardens Of Spain.
This LP includes the following music:
Sergei Rachmaninoff:
Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43; conducted by Fritz Reiner and performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Manuel de Falla:
Nights In The Garden of Spain; conducted by Enrique Jorda and performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody was composed during a sojourn in Switzerland during the summer of 1934. The music itself is of such clarity, of such structural simplicity, that analysis would be a distasteful condecension. The macabre humor, the wit, the poetry, the nostalgia, the warm sentiment and the wry cynicism which the composer puts into the work and which the soloist extracts from it are inescapably clear.
Characteristically, Falla labored over Nights in the Gardens of Spain for six years. He began it in 1909 as a set of pieces for piano solo, but it grew to become a series of "symphonic impressions" for orchestra with piano obbligato. This recorded version is doubly authoritative, since both the soloist and the conductor were close to the composer and studied his scores with him.
"These records are definitive." -Michael Fremer, editor, AnalogPlanet.com
Tracklist:
Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43 (23:11)
A1.1 Introduction: Allegro Vivace
A1.2 Variations 1–24
Nights In The Gardens Of Spain (22:04)
B1 En El Generalife 9:20
B2.1 Danza Lejana 12:40
Piano – Arthur Rubinstein
Recording information:
Title: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Nights In The Gardens Of Spain
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Manuel De Falla
Artist: Arthur Rubinstein
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Genre: Classical
Media: 1x 180g LP Vinyl Stereo 33rpm, Limited, Remastered, . Original Master Tape Source, Less than 1000 records per stamper. Living Stereo Series.
Label: Analogue Productions
Cat#: AAPC2430
Released: 1.4.2015 in US
Original release: 1960 by RCA Victor LSC-2430
EAN: 753088243011
Discogs rel.#: 25488046
