This is indeed the best and only true version of this piece. Just about every other one is painful to listen to except Bolet but even then, the vision understanding and virtuosity is just not there! Thanks for posting! I was lucky enough to buy this right when it first came out, Earl already being my favorite pianist from having heard his Rach, Grieg and Tchai!!
oh yeah, I'm missing the CODA, for me not at all meaningless virtuosity, but genious Rachmaninoff composing style: a very conveniant and brillant finish of this masterpiece !
All the variations are there. Unless there are cuts within the variations that I didn't notice, the only cut he made was to not play the presto coda, a cut which was authorised by Rachmaninoff. I think a lot of people would agree the coda is just excessive, meaningless virtuosity and thus the work is better off without it.
Beautiful work. The best moments at 3:42, 12:11, 18:07 and 19:18
...the best rendition of this work, played by a ¨specialist¨.
This is indeed the best and only true version of this piece. Just about every other one is painful to listen to except Bolet but even then, the vision understanding and virtuosity is just not there! Thanks for posting! I was lucky enough to buy this right when it first came out, Earl already being my favorite pianist from having heard his Rach, Grieg and Tchai!!
Thanks for this. Must be the best version out there!
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There are no cuts in this performance. Very misleading!
oh yeah, I'm missing the CODA, for me not at all meaningless virtuosity, but genious Rachmaninoff composing style: a very conveniant and brillant finish of this masterpiece !
Is this contains all the 22 variations?
No there are a few cuts.
All the variations are there. Unless there are cuts within the variations that I didn't notice, the only cut he made was to not play the presto coda, a cut which was authorised by Rachmaninoff. I think a lot of people would agree the coda is just excessive, meaningless virtuosity and thus the work is better off without it.