Piano Concertos 1 & 4 (2001)

Produced in close collaboration with The Rachmaninoff Society and its founding president Vladimir Ashkenazy, this recording couples the original versions of Sergei Rachmaninov’s First and Fourth Piano Concertos. The acclaimed young Russian pianist Alexander Ghindin is accompanied by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy. This album features the first-ever recording of the Fourth Concerto’s 1926 version, which has now been published by Boosey & Hawkes. The story of how this version has been revived starts, when the manuscript was handed to Alexander Rachmaninov, the composer’s grandson, by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Vladimir Ashkenazy subsequently informed Ondine and proposed a recording of the work, which eventually took place in Helsinki in March 2001. (Muziekbank)