Rachmaninoff Etudes - a recording?

[ramseytheii]

Does anyone have a suggestion for a complete recording of the Rachmaninoff etudes, op.33 and op.39.  I am thinking Vladimir Ashkenazy, but I don't know many others who have recorded the complete (I am not a Ruth Laredo fan).

Walter Ramsey

[BoliverAllmon]

you can get the ashkenazy ones off the web at

classical.manual.ru

[shasta]

I have Ian Hobson's 33 and 39.  Although I love Ashkenazy, Hobson does a fantastic job.

It is this CD:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000T7H/qid%3D1121880976/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-9353137-1937568

[vaiva]

I have complete Etudes-tableaux op.33 and op.39, performed by Nikolai Lugansky. He's great, new star in the music world. But i don't know there to get this CD in the internet.
If you really really very very want, i can send you some examples. just tell me...

vaiva

[Skeptopotamus]

I have Idil Biret and Evgeny Kissin, but I'm sorry to say neither are too great -.-

[ramseytheii]

I have Idil Biret and Evgeny Kissin, but I'm sorry to say neither are too great -.-

Intersting. I didn't know that Kissin recorded all of them.  Tell me why you don't like his?
I have heard the Idil Biret (selections) also and was displeased, as I am with her other Rachmaninoff recordings.  I generally like her, but for some reason not in this particular repertoire.

Walter Ramsey

[ramseytheii]

you can get the ashkenazy ones off the web at

classical.manual.ru

Kept getting a "page not found" box trying to access this link.  Also tried with a www... but that didn't work either.

Walter Ramsey

[Motrax]

I have Helene Grimaud for Op. 33, and François Joel Thiollier for Op 33 and Op 39. Unfortunately, I don't like either pianist too much. Ashkenazy's preludes are actually quite good (I'm not a great fan of him, usually), and I imagine his etudes would be similarly of high quality.

Kissin didn't record all of them, but what he recorded is not particularly worthy of note. To me his etudes seem lightly brushed, if that makes any sense. He doesn't seem to make any strong statement with any of them.

[Skeptopotamus]

oh sorry you guys kissin only recorded one of the opuses.  nvm *feels dumb*

[steinwayguy]

Well, as much Richter as you can find. As for Ashkenazy....

I have only seen a couple sets and I bought Nicholas Angelich's off of Amazon about a year and a half ago and it is quite high quality.

[quasimodo]

Hélène Grimaud's DENON recording is quite interesting (personally I find it great). She recorded it at 14 and she approaches them with that childhood's touch which gives those pieces a special dimension. Her Op.33 N.1 is my favourite.

Lugansky and Askhenazy are great.

[BoliverAllmon]

here is the exact link.


https://classic.manual.ru/Rachmaninov/Etudes_Ashk.html

[pseudopianist]

Idil Biret have a complete recording of these etudes but I wouldn't recomend them but I do like her 39/6

Freddy Kempfs recordings op 39 is one of the best recordings I have heard.

[cherub_rocker1979]

The best recording overall is by Nikolai Lugansky.

[musicsdarkangel]

if Dmitri Alexeyev recorded them, get his; his preludes are incredible.

[cherub_rocker1979]

if Dmitri Alexeyev recorded them, get his; his preludes are incredible.

He did not record them and he doesn't need to because we have Lugansky's recording.

[cherub_rocker1979]

These are all the recordings of the Etudes-Tableaux that are currently in print:

https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?name_id1=9829&name_role1=1&comp_id=2371&genre=122&bcorder=195&album_sort=3

[minor9th]

Vladimir Ovchinnikov's set on EMI is wonderful...I think it was out of print for a while but it now up for re-issue.