favorite Rachmaninoff

[steinway88]

What is your favorite Racmaninoff concerto or piano solo and the pianist playing it?

[Goldberg]

Rubinstein's playing of the Second Concerto, or Ashkenazy's rendition of the First.

[eddie92099]

Argerich's Rach 3 ,
Ed

[Rach3]

Argerich plays the third concerto!!!!!  

[Rach3]

I observe a conspicious omission of his two-pianist music...

[liszmaninopin]

I enjoy Horowitz's Third, and Rubinstein's Second.

[steinway88]

I heard Horowitz play the third concerto, but never heard him play the second.:-/. What cd does he play it on

[krenske]

Horowitz didn't play (publically) or record #2.
I vote for William Kapell's #2 and 3 __ THE BEST.. and would have to agree with Rach himself that Corelli Variations are his best piece:)

[liszmaninopin]

I have never heard the Corelli variations.  Where can one get the sheet music for them, as well as perhaps a good CD?

[eddie92099]

I would recommend Shura Cherkassky's live recording from London in the 1980s if you can get hold of it - I don't think it is commercially available though. Other than that, Ashkenazy is very impressive too,
Ed

[liszmaninopin]

Are there any sites with pdf files of these corelli variations?

[thracozaag]

What is your favorite Racmaninoff concerto or piano solo and the pianist playing it?

 Favorite Piano work: 2nd movement of the 1st sonata, Ogden RCA recording.

 1st Concerto: Rachmaninoff/Ormandy, Janis/Kondrashin, Ashkenazy/Previn
 2nd Concerto: Kapell/Bernstein, Kapell/Steinberg
 3rd Concert: Kapell/MacMillan, Kapell/Heinze, Horowitz/Barbirolli, Horowitz/Rodzinsksi, Gilels/Cluytens Katsaris/??

 And I'm eagerly awaiting the Cherkassky.

[Noah]

Katsaris/??

Are you referring to the live recording at the 1972 Queen Elisabeth Competition ?

[thracozaag]

Are you referring to the live recording at the 1972 Queen Elisabeth Competition ?

 This is a recording from the 80's with Leipzig Gewandhaus.

[eddie92099]

And I'm eagerly awaiting the Cherkassky.

Still?!
Ed

[dj]

i would say rachmaninoff's own recording of the third concerto....along with rubinstein's recording of rhapsody on a theme of paganini and horowits's recording of the second piano sonata

[thracozaag]

Still?!
Ed

 I hope to get it sometime this week (along with your promised Argerich Totentanz )

[eddie92099]

I hope to get it sometime this week (along with your promised Argerich Totentanz )

Apparently there exists somewhere a recording of her playing Rach One,
Ed

[krenske]

I have never heard the Corelli variations.  Where can one get the sheet music for them, as well as perhaps a good CD?

well...
my corelli variations are a separate publication.. by boosey and hawkes from memory.
as far as a recording goes, Pletnev's is a little idiosyncratic [but good]... and rach didn't record it [as far as i know].. you might just have to work from the score...

[zhiliang]

My list would goes like this:

Rachmaninoff's 1st Piano Concerto - Janis/Kondrashin

Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto - Rubinstein/Reiner, Van Cliburn/Kondrashin, Janis/Dorati,
Rachmaninoff/Stokowski, Ashkenazy/Previn

Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto - Horowitz/Reiner, Agerich/Chaily, Janis/Munch, Wild/Horenstein, Volodos/Levine

Rachmaninoff's 4th Piano Concerto - Michelangeli/Gracis

Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - Rubinstein/Reiner, Ashkenazy/Previn, Katchen/Solti, Kapell/Reiner,

Pachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No. 2 - Horowitz, Ogdon

[eddie92099]

Pachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No. 2 - Horowitz, Ogdon

Did he invent PacMan?
Ed

[thracozaag]

Kapell/Reiner,

 There's an even better recording (IMO) with Ormandy from 1944, unfortunately it's not commercially available.

[lisztrachmaninovfan]

 Favorite Piano work: 2nd movement of the 1st sonata, Ogden RCA recording.

  1st Concerto: Rachmaninoff/Ormandy, Janis/Kondrashin, Ashkenazy/Previn
  2nd Concerto: Kapell/Bernstein, Kapell/Steinberg
  3rd Concert: Kapell/MacMillan, Kapell/Heinze, Horowitz/Barbirolli, Horowitz/Rodzinsksi, Gilels/Cluytens Katsaris/??

  And I'm eagerly awaiting the Cherkassky.

What about Rachmaninoff's 4th? You can't forget that, even though it's always overlooked by many people. 

[chopinaninoff]

Lugansky ALL.THE.WAY. on all Rachmaninoff concertos

[redbaron]

Prelude in G minor Op 23, No 5 - Emil Gilels
Etude-Tableuax in D minor Op 33, No 4 - Nikolai Lugansky
Concerto No 3 - Martha Argerich
Paganini Rhapsody - Mikhail Pletnev

[korlock]

One that I think is overlooked is his humble Prelude 23 10. It is one of the pieces you have to listen to multiple times in order to fully respect it. It is such a beautiful and sad piece. Although it sounds simple its not exactly easy.

[pianistcellist]

I love the sonatas.

Haven't found a recording of the first I like very much, but I like both Horowitz and Grimaud in the 2nd quite a bit.

[rv]

Sviatoslav Richter for every Rachmaninoff prelude that he played.

[nanabush]

Ashkenazy for the E major prelude (Op 32 #3).  Something about that is just amazing.

Lugansky on all of the Etudes Tableaux.  The Eb minor Op 33, and C minor Op 39 are just mindbending!  The amount of sonority he can get from the uppermost notes while having such a powerful bass... I always have to go back 30 seconds or so in each to keep hearing certain parts over and over.

[orangesodaking]

John Ogdon playing the D Minor Sonata. Wow.

[iratior]

Well, once upon a time there was a record called "The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosi", and it had the sound of a piano roll, cut by Rachmaninoff himself, and having several numbers, including my favorite, Etude-Tableau opus 39 no. 6 (A - minor).

[arvhaax93]

Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto Ashkenazy/Andre Previn