Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Caprice Bohemien

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Perhaps the most impressive feature of this new recording is the quicksilver dynamic fluidity of the orchestra - they are able to move from the boldest of fortissimos to the most tender of pianissimos... — Classic FM Magazine, February 2012 More…

Release Date: 9th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: 6790192
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 62 minutes

Rachmaninoff: Caprice bohémien (Capriccio on Gypsy Themes), for orchestra in E minor / E major, Op. 12

Work length16:14

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

Work length5:54

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

Work length40:40

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

I. Lento - Allegro moderato - Allegro

Track length15:07

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II. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro vivace

Track length11:56

Album only

III. Allegro - Allegro vivace - Allegro (Tempo primo) - Allegretto - Allegro vivace

Track length13:37

Album only

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Award-winning conductor Vasily Petrenko’s exceptional abilities as a renowned, inspiring conductor with major media appeal set him apart from the majority of his contemporaries. He is the youngest ever Principal (now Chief) Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and will add the role of Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic beginning with the 2013/2014 season. His commitment to musical education has led him to act as Principal Conductor or the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and to be a founding member of the board of the UK’s "Building on Excellence: Orchestras for the 21st Century” scheme, which endeavours to increase the participation in classical and cultural events amongst British youth.

Vasily Petrenko conducts the RLPO for Rachmaninov’s third and most expressive symphony, paired with his capriccio on gypsy themes, the Caprice Bohémien.

This will be the first of a run of exciting releases focusing on the Russian music of Petrenko’s heritage.

Since Petrenko took up the baton of the RLPO’s Principal Conductor in 2006 (and then Chief Conductor in 2009), this partnership has flourished; and the orchestra is now described as “premier league”. Vasily has now committed to staying with the orchestra until 2015.

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February 2012

Perhaps the most impressive feature of this new recording is the quicksilver dynamic fluidity of the orchestra - they are able to move from the boldest of fortissimos to the most tender of pianissimos in a heartbeat. There is an overwhelming sense that the musicians are moving as one with the same telepathic unity of a murmuring of starlings. It is mesmerising....This music - and these recordings - will last for a very long time.

January 2012

The RLPO play magnificently...There is surging energy here allied to lucidity of orchestration and rhythmic impetus, together with that infallible sense of instrumental timbre that Rachmaninov possessed. The lyrical elements...are conveyed with heartfelt affection without resorting to any heart-on-sleeve excess.

15th January 2012

The RLPO strings sound leaner, perhaps, than those of Stokowski’s Philadelphia Orchestra, which inspired the composer, but they have never seemed more sumptuous than in the long melodies of the central adagio, and their brilliant articulation of virtuoso allegro passages at Petrenko’s fast tempi brings exhilarating dividends. In this magnificently played account, the stature of the music is never in doubt.

5th January 2012

In the Third Symphony, which finds Rachmaninov wistfully recalling the Russia he left after the October Revolution, Petrenko and the RLPO also identify the zest, the orchestral lucidity and the rhythmic thrust that marked the composer’s later years. An exhilarating performance.

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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Caprice Bohemien

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