RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances, Mikhail PLETNEV Rachmaniana / Mikhail Pletnev – conductor

Sergei RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

1 I. Non allegro
2 II. Andante con moto. Tempo di valse
3 III. Lento assai – Allegro vivace

Mikhail PLETNEV: Rachmaniana

4 Dance
5 Nocturne
6 Serenade
7 Landscape
8 Allegretto
9 Melody
10 Farewell
11 Hungarian Dance

Rachmaninoff International Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev – conductor

Label: EuroArts
Catalogue number: 8024211149
Barcode 880242111425
Format: CD, Album
Sound format PCM Stereo
Release May 22, 2026
Total running time 67 mins

Alongside Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, this release presents the world premiere recording of Rachmaniana by Mikhail Pletnev.

The suite reflects Pletnev’s own artistic voice—shaped by passion, lyricism, melancholy, and a joie de vivre both exuberant and rooted in pain. In Rachmaniana, he draws on and transforms existing material, reworking earlier pieces and reimagining characteristic gestures in a new orchestral context, so that familiar elements appear in a subtly altered, personal form.

Together, Symphonic Dances and Rachmaniana form a dialogue across time: one as Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final, self-reflective masterpiece, the other as a respectful yet imaginative homage. Rather than emphasizing modernist rupture, Pletnev’s work embraces a timeless idea of beauty—music that speaks directly from heart to heart, rooted in nostalgia, poetry, and melancholy.