Title: A TRAVESTY
Review: Listening to this disc, and then to Rachmaninoff's actual recordings on RCA (many of the same pieces), is revealing. The performer on "A Window in Time" is utterly unlike the real Rachmaninoff. The Stahnke Rachmaninoff plays with almost no expression on a small-sounding piano with limited dynamic range. He is metronomic and boring. The REAL Rachmaninoff performed with color, with rhythmic vitality and alertness; none of it is here. This CD is deadly computerized ennui. If you want the Rachmaninoff piano rolls, try London's "Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff" CD; it's done on a real concert grand. It may not be elegant, but it's alive - more than can be said for this insomnia cure.
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