Pianist Dmitry Masleev, who took first prize in the 2015 Tchaikovsky International Competition, leads the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra (a.k.a. Russian State Symphony Orchestra) from the piano in a program that centers two piano concertantes utilizing the chant melody Dies irae: Liszt’s Totentanz, and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The program also includes Liszt’s Rhapsodie espagnole in a version for piano and orchestra by Mikhail Petukhov, Masleev’s professor at the Moscow Conservatoire. The album closes with the Adagio from Marcello’s Oboe Concerto, arranged for solo keyboard by Bach, a kind of vision of heaven after hell.