Rachmaninov Plays Piano Concerto No 2 (1929)

#Concerto#Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, 1. Moderato; Allegro (00:08) 2. Adagio sostenuto (09:55) 3. Allegro Scherzando (20:45) Sergei Rachmaninov, pianist Leopold Stokowski, conductor The Philadelphia Orchestra Recorded on April 10/13, 1929 at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia The present recording was released on September 17th, 1929 as RCA Red Seal Catalogue No. DM 108. It has the historic distinction of being the best selling classical multi-disk album of the 78 rpm period. Although RCA had developed the “noiseless“ recording system by 1929, it was not used for this recording. The technology used to make it is fairly well known. The recording also became the victim of its own success due to the technology required to produce 78 rpm recordings. Whenever a new pressing was made a new Mother’s Master had to be struck from the original matrix sources, which resulted in deterioration. RCA realized thi