Over to Paris this week for a recital by renowned Russian Pianist Denis Matsuev, recorded live in concert at Thèatre des Champs-Elysèes on April 17th of this year by Radio France.

Here is the rundown:

1.Robert Schumann
Scènes d'enfants Op.15 (1838)

2. Robert Schumann
Carnaval Op.9 (1934,1935)

3. Edvard Grieg
Six images poétiques Op.3 (1863)

4. Edvard Grieg
Sonate en mi mineur Op.7 (1865)

5. Franz Liszt
Mephisto valse N°1 S 514 (1856,1861)

6. Alexandre Scriabine
Etude en do dièse mineur op 2

7. Alexandre Scriabine
Etude en ré dièse mineur op 8 n°12

8. Serge Rachmaninov
Prélude en sol dièse mineur op 32 n°12

9. Grigori Ginzburg
Figaro Fantaisie d'après Rossini

10. Duke Ellington / Denis Matsuev
Improvisation sur le thème de Caravan

Concert donné le 17 avril 2012. Production Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

The two Schumann pieces are on the top player and the rest of the concert (with all the encores) are on the bottom player.

Great concert, enthusiastic audience, wonderful repertoire. And all on an Anti-Road Rage Wednesday.

Life is good.

(Rachmaninoff - One of the last of the Big-Time Romantics)

Apologies for not getting this up last night. Technical glitches were running a marathon yesterday and everything seemed to freeze every time I touched it. So . . . .we're a little late on getting the Mid-Week Concert up.

But no worries - it's a good one tonight (today) - The St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Temirkanov and featuring Denis Matsuev, piano. In a concert recorded by Radio France at the Theatre de Champs-Elysees on November 20, 2005 during their European tour.

This post is the all-Rachmaninoff part of the concert, featuring the Piano Concerto Nr. 3 and the last orchestral piece Rachmaninoff wrote, the Symphonic Dances. As has been the case the past few weeks, the announcements are in French, but have been edited down to save time.

Here's the program below:

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées : Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev

Concert donné le 20 novembre 2005 au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Concerto N°3 en Ré mineur Op.30

Danses symphoniques Op.45

Denis Matsuev, Piano

Orchestre Philharmonique de Saint-Pétersbourg

Youri Temirkanov, Direction

The Piano Concerto is in the player above and the Symphonic Dances are in the player below.