Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor, Op. 43 (1934)
Nikolai Lugansky, soloist
Stanislav Kochanovsky conducting Orchestre de Paris, 2019

[0:00] Introduction: Allegro vivace
[0:12] Var. 1 (Précédente)
[0:31] Tema: L'istesso tempo
[0:50] Var. 2: L'istesso tempo
[1:09] Var. 3: L'istesso tempo
[1:34] Var. 4: Più vivo
[2:04] Var. 5: Tempo précédente
[2:33] Var. 6: L'istesso tempo
[3:34] Var. 7: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato
[4:47] Var. 8: Tempo I
[5:22] Var. 9: L'istesso tempo
[5:53] Var. 10: Poco marcato

[6:45] Var. 11: Moderato
[8:04] Var. 12: Tempo di minuetto
[9:28] Var. 13: Allegro
[9:59] Var. 14: L'istesso tempo
[10:45] Var. 15: Più vivo scherzando
[11:50] Var. 16: Allegretto
[13:24] Var. 17: (Allegretto)
[15:14] Var. 18: Andante cantabile

[18:08] Tempo vivace
[18:14] Var. 19: L'istesso tempo
[18:40] Var. 20: Un poco più vivo
[19:18] Var. 21: Un poco più vivo
[19:44] Var. 22: Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)
[21:28] Var. 23: L'istesso tempo
[22:21] Var. 24: A tempo un poco meno mosso


“You only feel the one yearning at best,
Oh, never seek to know the other!
Two souls, alas, exist in my breast,
One separated from another:
One, with its crude love of life, just
Clings to the world, tenaciously, grips tight,
The other soars powerfully above the dust,
Into the far ancestral height.
Oh, let the spirits of the air,
Between the heavens and Earth, weaving,
Descend through the golden atmosphere,
And lead me on to new and varied being!
Yes, if a magic cloak were mine, that
Would carry me off to foreign lands,
Not for the costliest garment in my hands,
For the mantle of a king, would I resign it!"

Goethe, Faust - Part I, Outside of the City Gate, translated by A. S. Kline