![]() Kaviani’s playing has drawn praise from legendary pianists of our time including Krystian Zimerman, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Stephen Hough, who has termed him “a fearless and adventurous pianist”.Īnd we now all know there’s certainly no fear when confronted by a complete Rachmaninov symphonic score and a solo piano. This performance was recorded in London’s Kings Place concert hall, one of the UK capital’s leading places of chamber music and jazz. Read more: Best Rachmaninov works: 10 of the composer’s greatest pieces of music ![]() The pianist also notes that Rachmaninov’s love of long, singing melodies in the orchestra and rapid piano figurations over the top, helped the concerto transfer very naturally to solo keyboard. “So from the very earliest years, I was almost having to arrange big symphonic works for solo piano, just out of necessity and to satisfy my curiosity about this amazing music that I had no other access to.”Īnd so, this full concerto arrangement for one piano, is how music has always been for Kaviani. If I wanted to hear what a Rachmaninov or Nikolai Medtner concerto sounded like, I had to print it out and play the solo parts and the orchestral parts all myself. “We had a piano and home and I could print our sheet music from the Internet.
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