
Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C#-minor (“the Bells in Moscow”) is the music Mao Asada had to struggle in her figure skating for a year until the Olympics in Vancouver, and there is a CD in which the composer Rachmaninoff himself played the piano. This is literally the genuine “Bells”. Zenph re-performance is a restoration process I quoted (Glenn Gould and Art Tatum) already, and this latest release is marvelously exciting: one can vividly hear Rachmaninoff at his lithe piano as if in front of us. The sound is excellent as well. The album also contains some violin pieces of Kreisler and Bach, which are all beautiful. It was very interesting to find Rachmaninoff was not actually hardrock but graceful.
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