- ReleaseProduct
- Visiting Rachmaninoff: Chopin Variations - Romances
- Artist
- Julia Lezhneva, Alexander Melnikov
- Label
- Harmonia Mundi
- Catalogue Number
- 902751
- Release Date
- July 4, 2025
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CD
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Alexander Melnikov returns to Rachmaninoff with an exploration of the poetic world of the Variations on a Theme by Chopin. He travelled to Lake Lucerne to record this album on the master’s own piano at Villa Senar, Rachmaninoff’s last summer home. To accompany this eminently lyrical music, he joins forces with the luminous soprano of Julia Lezhneva and invites us to discover some of the Russian composer’s most beautiful songs from this period of intense creative ferment.
Digital Tracklist
- 1 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Theme. Largo Alexander Melnikov 1:16
- 2 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. I. Moderato Alexander Melnikov 0:29
- 3 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. II. Allegro Alexander Melnikov 0:14
- 4 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. III. Alexander Melnikov 0:16
- 5 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. IV. Alexander Melnikov 0:49
- 6 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. V. Meno mosso Alexander Melnikov 0:21
- 7 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. VI. Meno mosso Alexander Melnikov 0:46
- 8 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. VII. Allegro Alexander Melnikov 0:15
- 9 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. VIII. Alexander Melnikov 0:18
- 10 Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22: Var. IX. Alexander Melnikov 0:18