This parallel recording compares the very dry, precise studio sound (here in the acoustics of the Teldex studio, strings at studio orchestra strength and the sound of a New York Steinway from the 1950s), as can be heard in recordings with the composer in the 1940th, with a sound that one might expect in a modern concert hall (here the acoustics of the Berlin PhilharmonyHi, with larger orchestral line-up and a current German Steinway D).
Rachmaninoff published his fourth concerto, following a 1926 version that survives only in manuscript, in 1928 and 1941, each time in a revised version. In each edition, the score was shortened somewhat through various minor and major deletions. However, all revisions also included numerous minor and extensive changes. This project presents all three original versions side by side for the first time.