Peter Orth
24 Préludes Op. 11 - Sonata No. 1 Op. 28
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917268423
- Catalog number CC 72684
- Release date 11 September 2015
About the album
As for these pieces I can tell you, I did not know anything about the Rachmaninoff Sonata at all until my friend Dietmar Falke told me to take a serious look at the score, which I did. To my surprise I found it most thrilling and decided to learn it.
From the beginning of its premier in 1908 it has gotten a bad rap. It was not well received, and Rachmaninoff abandoned it. On top of that, Horowitz’s performance of the Second sonata in the 1960’s so captured the imagination of the public, that the D minor Sonata really never had a chance. I, for one, find it neither ponderous nor too much and whenever I have been playing it, the public goes along with this music quite happily.
I first heard the Scriabin Preludes in a Carnegie Hall concert of Gina Bachauer’s, back in my school days. The next day I bought a score and ever since they have been a constant companion in my repertoire.
We recorded this music at the Wuppertal’s Imanuelskirche in March of 2014. Dietmar Falke was my wonderful piano technician and I brought my own Steinway D from my studio in Bad Meinberg. We set up on a Monday, and had everything in the can by late Thursday afternoon.
Peter Orth
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1124 Preludes Op. 11 Vivace C major
01:03 -
1224 Preludes Op. 11 Allegretto a minor
02:10 -
1324 Preludes Op. 11 Vivo G major
00:55 -
1424 Preludes Op. 11 Lento e minor
02:20 -
1524 Preludes Op. 11 Andante cantabile D major
02:05 -
1624 Preludes Op. 11 Allegro b minor
00:53 -
1724 Preludes Op. 11 Allegro assai A major
01:15 -
1824 Preludes Op. 11 Allegro agitato f# minor
01:45 -
1924 Preludes Op. 11 Andantino E major
01:36 -
11024 Preludes Op. 11 Andante c# minor
01:06 -
11124 Preludes Op. 11 Allegro assai B major
02:08 -
11224 Preludes Op. 11 Andante g# minor
01:27 -
11324 Preludes Op. 11 Lento G flat Major
01:55 -
11424 Preludes Op. 11 Presto e flat minor
01:12 -
11524 Preludes Op. 11 Lento D flat major
02:42 -
11624 Preludes Op. 11 Misterioso b flat minor
01:33 -
11724 Preludes Op. 11 Allegretto A flat major
00:36 -
11824 Preludes Op. 11 Allegro agitato f minor
01:05 -
11924 Preludes Op. 11 Affettuoso E flat major
01:30 -
12024 Preludes Op. 11 Appassionato c minor
01:17 -
12124 Preludes Op. 11 Andante B flat major
01:34 -
12224 Preludes Op. 11 Lento g minor
01:09 -
12324 Preludes Op. 11 Vivo F major
00:51 -
12424 Preludes Op. 11 Presto d minor
01:18 -
125Sonata No.1 D minor Allegro moderato
15:23 -
126Sonata No.1 D minor Lento
09:55 -
127Sonata No.1 D minor Allegro molto
16:01