Benno Moiseiwitsch plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 (1/4)

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Part 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
1. Moderato
Recording late 30s, conductor Goehr

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  • I think this is a much better performance than the remake he did in 1955; thanks for sharing it.

  • awesome buildup at the beginning! the anticipation!

  • Marvelous!

    I heard him play this "live" in the late 50s. It was superb.

    And Beechum was conducting! What a magnificent evening.

  • wonderfool he is plaiyng from all hees hart you can iven cry in some slow places

  • Phillippe had posted it on one of his older accounts. Unfortunately well you know...

  • First rate!!!! The piano part is so wonderfully molded to the orchestral part, the phrases shaped and sculpted as only the greatest of artists could do. Rachmaninov himself is supposed to have always searched for the "peak" of a composition, feeling any performance failing to do so came up short--Moiseiwitsch was one of the few along with the composer who could achieve this. I'm still searching for Moiseiwitsch's Schumann "Carnaval"...one of the greatest ever recorded.

  • ...about 1963 I read on the record jacket, recording by Hofmann, that their teacher, Lechetiszky..spelling....state­d that all of these spectacular pianists put together that he taught would not equal one Josef Levinne. I think I still have that record cover. And that same cover stated that Levinne had more interest in hobbies like astronomy than in piano playing.

  • you all should listen to alexis wiessenberg's version.........

    this still is one of my favorites recordings!!!!

  • I enjoyed this a lot

  • billyguns2-As are Richter and Michelangeli on mine. If I could add just one more,it would probably be Dinu Lipatti. Shame that life robbed us of the opportunity to hear him at what might have been even greater- in full maturity.

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