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Rachmaninov's 24 Preludes

Lucy Parham chooses her favourite recording of Rachmaninov's piano preludes.

Lucy Parham chooses her favourite recording of Rachmaninov's 24 piano preludes.

Rachmaninov's 24 piano preludes in all the 24 major and minor keys are a glorious treasure trove of different pianistic styles from lyrical to barn-storming. He wrote and published them at different times, and didn't regard them as a unified set. Unlike the keyboard preludes of Bach and Chopin they are not organized according to their keys either. But for a feast of piano playing, they are an essential thing for your library. And some of the titans of the keyboard have recorded their interpretations, including the composer himself how recorded a selection of them.

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