Described as a ‘poet amongst pianists’, Portuguese artist Artur Pizarro presents the complete solo piano works of Sergei Rachmaninov. Previously released in three acclaimed volumes, this box comprising seven CDs is issued at a very special price.

A former winner of the Leeds Piano Competition, Pizarro offers his listeners a lifetime of love for, and experience with, this music which speaks, as he says, ‘of the endless variety of the human condition’.

Tracing Rachmaninov’s development as a composer from the early Nocturnes and his encounters with Tchaikovsky as a teenage student of Nikolai Zverev in the 1880s, to the so-called ‘Corelli Variations’ of the 1930s, this landmark release shines a new light on every aspect of this remarkable oeuvre.

From the famed thunderclaps of the C sharp minor Prelude, via the monumental passion of the two sonatas to the tender lyricism of many of the lesser-known miniatures, Pizarro imbues every page of this music with the fire and feeling for melodic contour for which his playing has become so admired.

• Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006: suite (Gigue, Gavotte & Preludio)
• Behr: Lachtauben
• Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: II. Minuet
• Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
• Rachmaninov: Canon in E minor
• Rachmaninov: Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3
• Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33
• Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39
• Rachmaninov: Four Pieces (?1888)
• Rachmaninov: Fragments
• Rachmaninov: Fuga in D minor (1891)
• Rachmaninov: Fughetta in F (1899)
• Rachmaninov: Improvisations (4)
• Rachmaninov: Liebesfreud (after Kreisler)
• Rachmaninov: Liebesleid (after Kreisler)
• Rachmaninov: Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5
• Rachmaninov: Moments Musicaux, Op. 16
• Rachmaninov: Morceau de fantaisie 'Delmo' in G minor (1899)
• Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3
• Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Salon, Op. 10
• Rachmaninov: Oriental Sketch (1917)
• Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
• Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36
• Rachmaninov: Prelude in D minor Op. post. (1917)
• Rachmaninov: Prelude in F major (1891)
• Rachmaninov: Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 1-10
• Rachmaninov: Preludes Op. 32 Nos. 1-13
• Rachmaninov: Song without words
• Rachmaninov: Sorochintsy Fair: Hopak (after Mussorgsky)
• Rachmaninov: Suite for Orchestra in D minor (1891) (version for piano)
• Rachmaninov: Three Nocturnes
• Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22
• Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42
• Rimsky Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee
• Smith, J S: The Star-Spangled Banner
• Tchaikovsky: Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1