Rachmaninov-Warenberg: the "5th" Concerto based on 2nd Symphony op27

[Steffen Fahl]

While in general I am not so enthousiastic on arrangements of original Compositions for different Instrumentation, this attempt to make Rachmaninovs wonderful 2nd Symphony to a pianoconcerto which level up with the 4 orignal Concertos by Rachmaninov seem to me astonishingly convincing and in so far understandable why there are already several recordings by great pianista like Wolfram Schmidt Leonard, Anna Fedorova or Julius-Jeongwon Kim.

So I have tried to record this so called "5th" Rachmaninov Concert with Orchestral Samplelibraries.
Inspired by  Rachmaninovs own Recordings of his Pianoconcertos which seem to me have a very dry studio acoustic in contrast to modern  recordings from large concert halls. I tried to experiment with diferent room acoustics.
In my first attempt I used a smaller "Studioorchestra in the pretty dry Acoustic of the digital reconstruction of the Berlin "Teldex-Studio" with a  sampled New York Steinway D from 1951.
Here is the first Movement: Largo-allegro moderato

[Steffen Fahl]

Here comes
II Adagio-molto allegro
III Allegro Vivace
(aswell in Studio Acoustic)

[Steffen Fahl]

And here is a recording using the Sound of a large Symphonic Orchestra in the digital reconstructed Acoustic of the Berlin Philharmony with a sampled modern Hamburg Steinway D
I Largo allegro moderato

[Steffen Fahl]

And the 2nd and 3rd Movement aswell in the Acoustic of the Berlin Philharmony:
II. Adagio-molto allegro
III. Allegro Vivace
I hope you like it :-)