Unmissable Rachmaninov from Boris Giltburg

Unmissable Rachmaninov from Boris Giltburg

This is a significant release from Naxos: Rachmaninoc's Piano Sonatas No. 1 & 2, plus an arrangement of the orchestral tone-poem The Isle of the Dead.The First Sonata, D-Minor, Op. 28, dates from 1907/08. Its heft might be a contributing facto in its neglect: as Giltburg says in his excellent booklet notes:I grew up in unquestioning ignorance of Rachmaninov’s First Piano Sonata. Like Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto (there are three!) and Dvořák’s P…