looked for a different recording of Rach's piano concertos to try, didn't know V. Petrenko had a complete set, now playing

start of Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIF5udx5Sw&list=OLAK5uy_nI7yqfronW_ysCktk0JTdqNyiJ2u-xgMo&index=2

start of Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdM8eHZTk1U&list=OLAK5uy_nI7yqfronW_ysCktk0JTdqNyiJ2u-xgMo&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nI7yqfronW_ysCktk0JTdqNyiJ2u-xgMo

If it ends up sucking, which I doubt, I'll go back to the safe ground of Ashkenazy/Previn.

>(5 stars) Profound and communicative...Petrenko instinctively conveys the essential quality of soul that the interpretation of Rachmaninoff requires. -- Daily Telegraph (Classical CD of the Week), (Geoffrey Norris), February 20, 2010

high praise

>(5 stars) Vasily Petrenko's nose for atmosphere even excels that of Neeme Järvi...a master of expressive phrasing. -- BBC Music Magazine (Disc of the Month), (David Nice), March 2010

kek 'nose for atmosphere' huh? we'll see. I do love me some Vasily Petrenko though.