GREAT PIANO CONCERTOS (6CD)

[CD1] SERGEY RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO No. 3 in D minor Op. 30 1. Allegro ma non tanto 16:51 2. Intermezzo 11:12 3. Finale-alla breve 14:53 MAURICE RAVEL PIANO CONCERTO in G major 4. Allegramente 8:19 5. Adagio assai 9:17 6. Presto 3:49 Total: 64:39 Rachmaninoff Nikolai Lugansky, piano State Academy Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Ivan Shpiller Ravel Hélène Grimaud, piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jésus Lopez-Cobos Rachmaninoff

[CD2] PYOTR ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23 1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso 20:12 2. Andantino semplice 6:30 3. Allegro con fuoco 7:09 ANTONIN DVORÁK 4. PIANO CONCERTO in G minor Op. 33 5. Allegro agitato 17:58 6. Andante sostenuto 8:10 Total: 70:38 Finale, allegro con fuoco Tchaikovsky Evgeny Kissin, piano St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Dvorák Rudolf Firkusny, piano St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Süsskind

[CD3] FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 1. Allegro maestoso 17:54 2. Larghetto 8:09 3. Vivace 9:03 PIANO CONCERTO No. 2 in F minor Op. 21 4. Maestoso 12:51 5. Larghetto 7:33 6. Allegro vivace 7:35 Total: 63:05 Evgeny Kissin, piano Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko

[CD4] LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO No. 3 in C minor Op. 37 1. Allegro con brio 15:58 2. Largo 3. Rondo, allegro PIANO CONCERTO No. 5 in E flat major Op. 73 "Emperor" 4. Allegro 19:32 5. Adagio un poco mosso 8:34 6. Rondo, allegro 10:37 Total: 72:39 Emil Gilels, piano State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, Kurt Masur

[CD5] SERGEY RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 1. Moderato 10:10 2. Adagio sostenuto 11:06 3. Allegro scherzando 11:30 ROBERT SCHUMANN PIANO CONCERTO in A minor Op. 54 4. Allegro affetuoso 15:02 5. Intermezzo 5:16 6. Allegro vivace 10:28 Total: 63:36 Klára Würtz, piano National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine, Vladimir Sirenko (1-3) Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Arie van Beek (4-6) Rachmaninoff

[CD6] FRANZ LISZT PIANO CONCERTO No. 1 in E flat major 1. Allegro 5:01 2. Quasi adagio 4:30 3. Allegretto vivace 2:22 4. Allegro animato 1:40 5. Allegro marziale animato 4:02 PIANO CONCERTO No. 2 in A major 6. Adagio sostenuto assai 5:08 7. Allegro agitato assai 1:54 8. Allegro moderato 4:55 9. Allegro deciso-sempre allegro 2:46 10. Marziale, un poco meno allegro 3:52 11. Allegro animato 1:42 12. TOTENTANZ, Paraphrase on “Dies Irae” 14:37 Total: 52:47 Nelson Freire, piano Dresdner Philharmonie, Michel Plasson