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ZOLTÁN KOCSIS | RACHMANINOV: Piano Sonata No. 2 etc
ARTISTS
Zoltán Kocsis, piano
TRACK LISTING
RACHMANINOV: Prelude in A major, Op.32 No.9
Prelude in F sharp minor, Op.23 No.1
Etude-tableau in B minor, Op.39 No.4
Morceau de fantaisie, Op.3 No.3: Mélodie
Prelude in B minor, Op.32 No.10
Prelude in C minor, Op.23 No.7
Prelude in F minor, Op.32 No.6
Etude-tableau in F minor, Op.33 No.1
Etude-tableau in C minor, Op.39 No.7
Prelude in B flat minor, Op.32 No.2
Morceau de fantaisie, Op.3 No.5: Sérénade
Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.36
(original version)
'Throughout, Kocsis's performances are as bold and stimulating as his choice of works, gloriously free-spirited and of an immense pianistic brio and command. Indeed his performance of the Second Sonata is as fulminating and rhapsodic as any on record...Action-packed in an exhausting and enthralling way, his reading never sounds arch or contrived in a way that so often disfigures Horowitz's famous account. Purposeful and sometimes angular, Kocsis possesses a stupendous technique, stepping out in dazzling style in the ultra-Russian Etude-tableau, Op. 33 No. 1 and clarifying the Siberian whirlwind of the F minor Prelude, Op. 32 No. 6 with a breathtaking clarity and focus...and he has been magnificently recorded.' Gramophone
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