• Album cover for Van Cliburn: Russian Piano Concertos (CD), conducted by Walter Hendl and Fritz Reiner, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featuring Van Cliburn
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Van Cliburn: Russian Piano Concertos (CD)

Van Cliburn: Russian Piano Concertos (CD)
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Van Cliburn joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two landmark Russian piano concertos on this Pristine Classical release: Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, conducted by Walter Hendl, and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Both performances were recorded in stereo at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Prokofiev in October 1960 and the Rachmaninov in March and April 1962.

Cliburn had become an international sensation after winning the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, a Cold War-era triumph that launched one of the most celebrated recording careers of his generation. His subsequent RCA recordings became major commercial successes and established him as a leading interpreter of Russian Romantic repertoire.

Restored and remastered by Andrew Rose, this collection captures Cliburn with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the height of his early career, pairing the brilliance and rhythmic drive of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with the sweeping lyricism of Rachmaninov’s Second.

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