Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Sonata No. 1

- Composer: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 -- 28 March 1943) - Performer: John Ogdon - Year of recording: 1968 Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 28 in D minor, written in 1907-1908. 00:00 - I. Allegro Moderato 11:56 - II. Lento 20:51 - III. Allegro molto As the nineteenth century melted into the twentieth, Rachmaninov hit his stride as a composer with overtly derivative works from the 1890s yielding to the distilled and highly personal utterance of the Preludes, Op. 23, hand-in-hand with large ambiti