Rachmaninoff: Sonata No.1 in D Minor, Op.28 (Wang Xiayin, Barboro) скачать в хорошем качестве

Rachmaninoff: Sonata No.1 in D Minor, Op.28 (Wang Xiayin, Barboro)

Two superb but quite unknown performances of Rachmaninoff’s First Sonata. Wang Xiayin has an incredible gift for hyper-fine dynamic control, note-by-note articulation, and characterization: each movement inhabits its own world, and she is one of the very few pianists who can accurately capture the almost schizophrenic nature of the first movement without losing sight of its structure. Like Lugansky, everything she does feels completely natural, but she also manages to add something almost like a sense of fun to the third movement, which is played with wonderful rhythmic swagger. Barboro’s approach reminds me a bit of Arrau: everything is about expressiveness (compare Wang’s muffled timpani-strikes at 22:15 to Barboro’s shattering peals at 1:00:06) and the slower tempi he chooses lets him reveal lots of hidden detail and generate some of the most satisfying build-ups to climaxes I’ve ever heard. The playing is consistently atmospheric, with melodic lines beautifully outlined (listen to the second movement and 1:02:58 of the third), and a kind of narrative sense that’s often lost in the headlong plunge into all those notes. Wang: Mvt 1 – 00:00 Mvt 2 – 13:12 Mvt 3 – 21:44 Barboro Mvt 1 – 35:14 Mvt 2 – 49:29 Mvt 3 – 59:36