Dmitry Masleev, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra
AP384 - 1CD - 56' - Jan 31, 2025
Dmitry Masleev presents a diptych woven with the Dies Irae, from Liszt’s Totentanz to Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Blending virtuosity with crystal-clear lyricism, he closes with Marcello’s Adagio, arranged by Bach, like a clearing after the storm.
With Liszt's ‘Totentanz’, which saw him triumph at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, and the ‘Spanish Rhapsody’ (adapted for piano and string orchestra by his mentor Petukhov) on one side, and Rachmaninoff's ‘Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini’ - his composer of choice - on the other, Dmitry Masleev offers a highly personal diptych on this new album, with the Dies irae theme running through it. The pianist serves up these formidable pages with racy, sober, elegant playing, virtuosity giving way to sensuality and crystal-clear lyricism.
The album closes with the Adagio from Marcello's Oboe Concerto, arranged for keyboard by Bach, a kind of vision of heaven after hell
Franz Liszt
1. Totentanz S.126
Franz Liszt · Mikhail Petukhov
2. Spanish Rhapsody S.254 (concert arrangement for piano and string orchestra)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op. 43
3. Introduction. Allegro vivace – Variations I – V
4. Variation VI. L’istesso tempo
5. Variations VII – X
6. Variation XI. Moderato
7. Variations XII – XV
8. Variations XVI – XVII
9. Variation XVIII. Andante cantabile
10. Variations XIX – XXIV
Alessandro Marcello · Johann Sebastian Bach
11. Concerto in D minor BWV 974: II. Adagio (after Oboe Concerto in D Minor, S D935)
