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Like, when did the Mount Rushmore just suddenly become Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Rachmaninoff — all the other names that we know?

Even so, the gloom of Rachmaninoff’s final major work was dispensed by pure pianistic spectacle.

Each could be heard playing Rachmaninoff over the weekend in Southern California — and they couldn’t be less alike if they tried.

Instead, there were small pieces, quite a few by little-known composers, along with Bruckner motets, bits of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and Bernstein.

In a program that paired Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with Rachmaninoff’s beloved Second Piano Concerto, Honeck effortlessly coaxed sweep and sweetness, breadth and refinement, from the players.