The Cleveland Orchestra, Gina Bachauer, Robert Casadesus & George Szell – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 – Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82 & Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a (Remastered 2024) (1959/2024)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, was composed in the summer of 1909. The piece was premiered on November 28 of that year in New York City with the composer as soloist, accompanied by the New York Symphony Society under Walter Damrosch. The work has the reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical piano repertoire.
The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G major. The piece was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a concert pianist who had lost his right arm in the First World War.
Le Tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin) is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the memory of a friend of the composer (or in one case, two brothers) who had died fighting in World War I. Ravel also produced an orchestral version of the work in 1919, although this omitted two of the original movements.
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Gina Bachauer – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 by Gina Bachauer (2023)
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Gina Bachauer was born into an Italian-Austrian family. She performed in public for the first time at the age of 8 and from 1924 studied at the Athens Conservatory in the class of Busoni’s pupil Woldemar Freeman. In 1929 she left the Conservatory with a gold medal. Three years after that she moved to Paris and took lessons with Alfred Cortot and later with Sergei Rachmaninoff.
In the 1930 she accompanied the Paris Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux and the Athens Symphony Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos. During World War 2, she gave hundreds of concerts in Egypt for Allied troop support. After the war she then started her international career in London.
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