Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableaux No.9 in D Major (Lugansky)

One of Rachmaninoff’s most dramatic and harmonically lush etudes: a real delight to listen to. Rachmaninoff’s harmonic skill is not acknowledged nearly as often as it should be. The performance superb: the colouring at 02:36, for example, is a real stand-out moment, as is the buildup from 02:47