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"CHOPIN: Sonata #2 in B flat minor Mvt. 1" genre: Romantic
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	The impassioned first movement of this so-called "Funeral March" sonata burst s forth with a kind of effusive if grim determination. From the ominous opening salvo to the majestic conclsion of the movement, this work is an abundance of riches, opulent melodies and insistent, driving rhythms.
	CD: VICTOR MERZHANOV plays CHOPIN, BEETHOVEN and SCRIABIN   Label: VISTA VERA #96008 Credits: Digital engineeer: Boris Sokoloff
"CHOPIN: Prelude No. 24 in D minor" genre: Romantic
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	This is the turbulent conclusion to Chopin's 24 preludes. Its rhetorical character harbors one of Chopin's most ardent and impassioned melodies, an imperious and affective declamation
	CD: VICTOR MERZHANOV   Label: VISTA VERA #95107
"RACHMANINOFF: Concerto 3 in D min, Mvt 1" genre: Piano
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	ALLEGRO, MA NON TANTO. Rachmaninoff gave the premiere of his magisterial third concerto on November 28, 1909 with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra. But it was his collaboration with Gustav Mahler as conductor that impressed him the most. Perhaps taht's not so surprising given the musical kinship and mutual respect of one great composer for another. Public reception was initially cool, at least in the United States; it wasn't until he performed it in Moscow the following year that the Russian public gave it the recognition it deserverd. Rachmaninoff recorded the work in 1939 with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it was his friend Vladimir Horowitz, who he met in America in 1928, who made the concerto his own and whose electrifying performance brought it to the attention of a wider public. Today the work is revered as one of the greatest creations in the piano, and indeed, in the symphonic literature. Victor Merzhanov's extraordinary reading, among the greatest, harvests the work for every detail but without sacrificing an iota of the passion or flexibility it demands.
	CD: VICTOR MERZHANOV plays RACHMANINOFF and SCRIABIN   Label: VISTA VERA 97015 Credits: Conductor: Nicolai Anossov. Recorded in 1956.

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