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Can anyone recommend a good recording of this piece? Preferrably from a good label (Deutsche Grammophon and the like). And if it happens to have an SACD release, then all the better!
Thanks a bunch!
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I have quite a lot, but my favourite is the Hough recording on Hyperion - purely because I'm a cheapskate student and it has recordings of all the concerti and the Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. And its very good. Quite nippy though in terms of tempo.
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Find Cliburn or Sokolov's. They are my favorite for that piece.
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Do a search for Rach 3 recordings on this forum; you'll find a ton of info and recommendations.
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lol...LL and Mach3 ride the at the top of the pianists corner yet again.
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Volodos on Sony Classical, is quite good, and is available as an sacd
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i just got that volodos one. darn it, tower records didn't have an SACD one.
you get these trembles going down your spine everytime that first movement opens up with its haunting melody.
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... then your mind goes crazy when the second mvt. merges into the third mvt.. So fantastic. That is a great piece.
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Yes, Volodos; it's spectacular, and live! I seem to remember being impressed with Lazar Berman's, but it's been years since hearing it. Gieseking's is interesting - what a mind at work! He makes such long lines, which is indispensable in Rachmaninoff. Not the cleanest, though, but worth a listen.
My personal favorite (never mind the fact that she is one of my former teachers) is the recording that Ann Schein made for Kapp records in the late '50s, with Eugene Goosens leading the Vienna State opera orchestra. She was, I think, 19 or 20 years old! It's a smashing recording, technically astounding and very mature, but you can't find it on CD. (I've actually been fortunate enough, in my years of study with her, to actually accompany her on a second piano, and let me tell you: she owns this piece.)
Another way you could hear her play the piece, though not that particular recording, is to go to the Pitkin County Library in Aspen - where she teaches in the summertime - and find the performance she did with Jorge Mester leading the Aspen Festival Orchestra from, I think, 1986...It's even better than the Kapp recording, and it's live - you can *feel* the audience leaping to their feet at the end - truly visceral!!)
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. I'll bet Hough's is amazing, though I haven't yet heard it.
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Byron Janis and Horowitz are both spectacular.
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FYI, the Volodos is edited from multiple live performances. So technically, it's both live and edited. 
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That library is fantastic. Every recorded performance from the Aspen festival for the past few decades is available there. If anyone ever goes to Aspen, the Pitkin Co. library should definitely be in your plans! (I smuggled a minidisc recorder in and grabbed a few things while I was there. ) Originally posted by pianistcomposer:
Another way you could hear her play the piece, though not that particular recording, is to go to the Pitkin County Library in Aspen - where she teaches in the summertime - and find the performance she did with Jorge Mester leading the Aspen Festival Orchestra from, I think, 1986...It's even better than the Kapp recording, and it's live - you can *feel* the audience leaping to their feet at the end - truly visceral!!)
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. I'll bet Hough's is amazing, though I haven't yet heard it.
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Argerich really "Rachs" this piece on DG.
The other recording I really like is the Horowitz Jubilee one.
I didn't know about the Volodos rendition; I'm sure it's uh-mazing too.
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It seems no one has mentioned Ashkenazy, I'd have to say that he is my personal Favorite.
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Horowitz (1930), Horowitz-Reiner (1951), Volodos. I also like Rachmaninoff's own recording, but it's a little harder to find. I don't have a copy of it; I just happened to be fortunate enough to listen to it once. I'll do some digging if you're interested in that one, but I suspect there might be others in the forum who have a bootleg of it. (The recording was never meant for sale.)
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2 days ago, for 7 dollars, I got a CD recording of Rachmaninoff himself playing his 2nd and 3rd concerti
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If you want to try a few recordings before you buy, here you can download quite a few in mp3 format (Cliburn, Horowitz, Ashkenazy, Volodos and Rachmaninov's own recording) : http://classic.manual.ru/ Russian site... The names appear in English in the bar at the bottom of your browser. Choose Rachmaninov in the long list on the left.
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I have Rach's recording of it, I don't like it, for some reason I'm so used to the splendour of Horowitz's rendition it seems to me Rach does things too differently. Though I must say his cadenza is still probably the best played I ever heard ;-)
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