Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40: I. Allegro vivace (Alla breve)

Destination Rachmaninov – Departure is the first of two albums comprising Trifonov’s cycle of the great Russian composer’s piano concertos recorded with the Philadelphia Orchestra. “I realised when we first worked together how much respect the Philadelphia players have for Rachmaninov’s music and how much knowledge of his idiom,” Trifonov recalls. “It was a terrific idea to record with such a great orchestra and a real honour to share the journey with them.” Rachmaninov would have thought the same. Having settled in the US as an exile from Soviet Russia, he wrote to a friend in Moscow: “The best orchestras in America are in Philadelphia (with which I make records) and New York. He who hasn’t heard these can’t know what an orchestra is.”

Soloist: 

Daniil Trifonov (Piano)