Word: rachmaninoffs
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...said Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American poet, teller of horror tales and inventor of the detective story. A vulnerable sort, tormented by melancholy and eventually by drink, he was infatuated with the mystery and dramatic power of music. Years after his death in 1849, composers-Sousa, Rachmaninoff, Debussy-found themselves equally fascinated by the music of his words...
Deutsche Grammaphon has also jumped on the Berman bandwagon with two all-Russian releases, including Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, Prokofieff's Eighth Piano Sonata and the Six Moments Musicaux of Rachmaninoff...
...Rachmaninoff, Berman shows most clearly his delight with his old style of playing, fluid, elastic shapes. In fact, everything Berman plays seems suffused with a romantic willingness to bend a phrase to an expressive purpose. It would be interesting to hear him take a shot at the baroque or classical composers he's avoided so far. In the small parts o the repertoire he has staked out, however--the Russian and the neo-Romantic--Berman is unsurpassed...
...Habit. She decided to pause. That pause extended into a 15-month intermission while she plunged into a surge of demanding musical activity. She studied classical composers-Bach, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Scornful of record producers with eyes for trends but with unschooled ears, Flack decided to produce her own album. She booked studio time, hired musicians and arrangers, and passed out W-2 forms, even struggling to learn to operate the engineer's console. It took over a year to complete the record, and Flack says that she will never do all that again. She is confident that...
Works of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff; Martha Anna Verbit, Plano, Dunster Library...