Last evening, I attended a splendid concert in Bucharest:
ORCHESTRA NAŢIONALĂ RADIO
Dirijor: CRISTIAN MANDEAL
Solistă: OXANA CORJOS – pian
M. Ravel:
Ma mère l’OyeR. Strauss:
BurleskeS. Rachmaninov:
Simfonia nr. 2 în mi minor, op. 27(the first two, first listening live)
Goosebumps from start to finish, including the
Burleske which the original dedicatee
Hans von Buelow described as "a complicated piece of nonsense".

And having recently heard live as well the original two-piano versions of
Ma mère l’Oye I can attest to the fact that,
pace Franz Liszt, there is no way the piano (even two of them) can replace a whole orchestra.

The
Rachmaninoff was epic.