Title: Krystian Zimerman plays Rachmaninoff Concertos Nos. 1&2
Product review: Things start out promisingly enough in the performance of the First Concerto.Krystian Zimerman may very well be the foremostpianist of our time.He has technique and musicianship to burn.Matters,however,quickly go downhill in the Second Concerto.The orchestra sounds a lot of the time like it was recorded inthe next room.And the orchestral playing sound uncommitted to boot!What a pity,for this could have been the SecondConcerto recording for the ages for Zimerman plays the solopart most brilliantly and probingly indeed!! This may very wellbe the worst concerto recording that I have ever heard in mymore than 30 years of listening and collecting!! Krystian Zimerman should have insisted on another go at it!!
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