in Piano International (Nov, 2017)
Any new recording of Rachmaninov’s evergreen and omnipresent Second Concerto has to contend with 280 or so competitors listed on Presto Classical’s website. Most – even fine versions – are lost in the weft; even with the Naxos label this is one of 13 recordings in a variety of formats, including undeniably valuable historical issues.
Giltburg is a sensitive musician who constructs interesting programmes, as his previous issues of Rachmaninov and Shostakovich have shown. Staying within the Naxos stable for a moment, this new account of the concerto is the front-runner amongst their modern recordings, the sound richer than its predecessors and the performance more compelling. The main coupling of the …
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