Castles from the Mist
Vassily Primakov plays Rachmaninov -
recommended by BARBARA SEALOCK'... a triumph in more ways than one.'
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This recording of Rachmaninov Preludes and other works on Bridge Records says as much about Vassily Primakov's high regard for the composer as his own interpretive genius.
It is a triumph in more ways than one.
Recorded on a Bechstein concert grand, it sets a high bar for fine attunement, and confirms the fact that Primakov, a champion of Russian Romanticism, is an artist of virtuosic intelligence whose meteoric career continues to rise.
Traversing the Preludes, the Corelli Variations, and the Elegie in E flat minor, Op 3 No 1, the production is a work of marvelous color, admirable articulation, poetry, and soul-plumbing emotion...
Copyright © 17 September 2011
Barbara Sealock, Chicago USA
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