It would take a full-length academic article to lay out all the differences between the versions, but in essence the first movement here emerges as even more protean, dreamy and improvisatory than we are used to, while the Lento is little changed and the finale is even more saturated and restless. Geniušas helps Rachmaninov’s instrument to sing its heart out, and even if, as he says, the treble register is not as lustrous as one might want, it is capable of unleashing considerable orchestral-scale grandeur. ... Anyone with more than just a passing interest in Rachmaninov will need to have this excellently recorded disc on their real or virtual shelves.  David Fanning