Iclassics.com - Classical Music And More were busy with the hectic schedule of a concert pianist and a beautiful or bitteror sad or religious. Suggested Listening sergei rachmaninoff Music for Piano http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/feature.jsp?featureId=324
Sergei Rachmaninoff insignificant virtuoso pieces that were just fine for showing off a pianist'stechnical skill sergei rachmaninoff died in 1943 in Beverly Hills, California. http://www.eroica.com/phoenix/jdt124-sr.html
Extractions: Joshua Pierce, piano Sergei Vassileivitch Rachmaninoff was born on April 2, 1873 at Oneg, Novgorod, Russia. He died in Beverly Hills, California, March 28, 1943. All during his life, and for many decades after his passing, Sergei Rachmaninoff was regarded as - at best - an anomoly, a throwback to the 19th century, as his music always expressed itself through an unabashedly Romantic language: At times haunting, morose and forboding; at others, gentle, passionate and con molte dolce. But always, all these conflicting pathos would recede as the finales of his greatest works - such as the Symphony No. 2, the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the valedictory Symphonic Dances - would give way to beautiful resolutions of triumph. If listening to Rachamaninoff seemed to some a futile exercise in depression and an exploration of the depths of sorrow, this was because of the complexity of the composer himself. Almost all of Rachmaninoff's major works were undergirded by the Roman Catholic Dies Irae. But that was only half of the story; for the listener will have found himself transported from the inevitability of death, to rise above the despair and exalt in the life-affirming, powerful finales for which the composer was so well-known. Only in Die Toteninsel (after Arnold Boecklin's painting) is death the final arbiter.
The Life, Music, And Genius Of Sergey Rachmaninoff honored at a dinner hosted by fellow pianist Arthur Rubinstein. sergei RachmaninovA Lifetime in Music Links sergei rachmaninoff rachmaninoffWorld Rachmaninov http://www.debateit.net/genius/rachmaninoff.htm
Extractions: I have never been able to make up my mind as to what was my true calling that of composer, pianist, or conductor . . . I am constantly troubled by the misgiving that, in venturing into too many fields, I may have failed to make the best use of my life. In my own compositions, no conscious effort has been made to be original, or Romantic or Nationalistic, or anything else. I write down on paper the music I hear within me, as naturally as possible...What I try to do, when writing down my music, is to make it say simply and directly that which is in my heart when I am composing. Music is enough for a lifetime; but a lifetime is never enough for music.
Biography Of Sergei Rachmaninoff - Composer sergei rachmaninoff. ~Composer~. Birth April 1, 1873, Novgorod, Russia. Hiscousin, Alexander Siloti, was an accomplished pianist and tutored him. http://7-12educators.about.com/blarachmaninoff.htm
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Library Of Congress Citations d. 328-43, Beverly Hills; Russian-born American pianist, conductor, and SerghehiRachmaninov) Control No. n 50054908 Heading rachmaninoff, sergei, 1873-1943 http://www.malaspina.edu/~mcneil/cit/citlcrachmaninov.htm
Extractions: The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations National Library of Canada LC Online Catalog ... Free Email from Malaspina Book Citations [First 20 Records (of 322)] Author: Bertensson, Sergei, 1885-1962. Title: Sergei Rachmaninoff, a lifetime in music, by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, with the assistance of Sophia Satin. Published: New York, New York University Press, 1956. Description: viii, 464 p. illus., ports., facsims., music. 24 cm. LC Call No.: ML410.R12 B47 Dewey No.: 927.8 Notes: "Works": p. 402-419. "Work on records": p. 420-438. Subjects: Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943 Discography. Other authors: Leyda, Jay, 1910- joint author. Satina, Sophie, 1879- Control No.: 55010065 Author: Piggott, Patrick, 1915- Title: Rachmaninov orchestral music / Patrick Piggott. Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1974. Description: 60 p. : music ; 20 cm. Series: BBC music guides ; 27 LC Call No.: MT130.R2 P5 1974b Dewey No.: 785/.092/4 ISBN: 029595308X : $1.45 Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Orchestra music. Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Concertos, piano, orchestra. Orchestral music Analysis, appreciation. Concertos (Piano) Analysis, appreciation. Control No.: 73013333 /MN/r85
Extractions: The theme as indicated below and the first variation Theme of Variations on a theme of Corelli Belwin Mills edition, 1959 p. 2 Ashkenazy, Vladimir (piano solo) 'Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42' Ashkenazy, Vladimir (piano solo) 'Rachmaninov: Variations on a Corelli theme, Liszt: Mephisto waltzes, Feux, Follets Prokofiev: Sonate No. 7' Ashkenazy, Vladimir (piano solo) 'Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42' John Culshaw wrote about the variations as introduction for this recording: The Corelli Variations is not only his last work for solo piano, but in fact the only work for solo piano composed during his twenty six years of exile in the USA. It was first played by him in New York 1932. The theme is not actually by Corelli. It is an ancient dance melody called La Folia which has been quoted or varied by various composers down the ages, including Bach, Cherubini and Liszt.
Academic Directories the pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, offers general information on the organization,its activities, and membership. sergei Vassilievich rachmaninoff http://www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/tree.jsp?c=42627
Sergei Rachmaninoff $11.95wbST0051700 Great Piano Works of sergei rachmaninoff ..$9.95wb0041B-00 rachmaninoffConcerto No. Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, David Syme pianist. http://www.piano-pal.com/rach.htm
Extractions: Enjoy... New Recordings Used CD Events Trivia ... Links Your on-line resource for learning, playing, and enjoying classical music. Which famous pianist said that Rachmaninoff was "a greater pianist than a composer"? Answer: Artur Rubinstein wrote in his memoir that Rachmaninoff "was the most fascinating pianist of them all". Although Rubinstein admired Rachmaninoff as a pianist, Rubinstein commented that Rachmaninoff's music suffered from "a lack of nobility". More Music Quizzes Recording Recommendations for:
Extractions: Enjoy... New Recordings Used CD Events Trivia ... Links Your on-line resource for learning, playing, and enjoying classical music. Which pianist composed "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" for piano and orchestra? Answer: The famous pianist/composer is Sergei Rachmaninoff . The theme is the Caprice no. 24 for solo violin by Niccolo Paganini. More Music Quizzes Recording Recommendations for:
CNIDR Search [adp8607] sergei rachmaninoff, pianist, conductor ; Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski,Eugene Ormandy, conductors ; Fritz Kreisler, violin (Sonata, op. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/bib?adp8607
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Michael Hawley, Pianist: Van Cliburn 2000 Martyn rachmaninoff Composer pianist - Conductor Scolar Press, 1990. A voluminousbiography. Out of print now. sergei rachmaninoff Complete Recordings RCA http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/music/VanCliburn2000/
Extractions: These are the live recordings of my performances in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, held in Fort Worth, Texas (June 2000). This unusual event was a highlight of my year. It's for pianists who are over 35 and out of practice: no professionals allowed. Contestants play purely for the love of it. The pianists who come, about a hundred of them, are from dozens of countries and all walks of life: the chemist from Japan; the Brazilian ambassador; the blackjack dealer from Reno; the autoglass repairman, surgeon, lawyer, numismatist, masseur, assistant manager from Starbuck's, flight attendant... What a dazzling array of human interest. On stage, settling down at the gleaming Steinway concert grand, they glowed like 500-watt bulbs, and the audience was on the edge of their seats, hanging on every note. Music for the pure, unalloyed joy of it. Great stuff. I've always felt that part of the fun in being a true amateur comes from the mistakes, and the excitement in not knowing how well you might do. Professionalism (suggesting perfectionism) kills that spontaneity. Anyway, you might as well learn to love those pesky mistakes. Even Franz Liszt hit a few clams from time to time, but he didn't call them mistakes: he called them uninvited guests, and always tried to make them feel right at home. Or Rubinstein, who used to say: Well, sometimes I
Sergei Rachmaninoff sergei rachmaninoff. sergei rachmaninoff (18731943), born in Oneg,Russia, was an excellent pianist, perhaps an even better composer. http://www.dailyobjectivist.com/Heroes/SergeiRachmaninoff.asp
Extractions: Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), born in Oneg, Russia, was an excellent pianist, perhaps an even better composer. His work is revered for enormous complexity and figurations as well as sweeping use of melody and tone color. After years of private lessons with Nikolai Zverev, Rachmaninoff entered the Moscow Conservatory of Music, studying under Alexander Siloti. While there he won many prizes for both performance and composition. Works from the period include his famous Prelude in C-sharp minor, his one act opera Aleko, and his first symphony in D-minor. He published his first piano concerto when he was only 18 years old. When the premiere of his first symphony failed, Rachmaninoff fell into a severe depression and was unable to compose. After some struggle (helped by one Dr. Nikolai Dahl and by a great visit to London), he was able to write his most popular Piano Concerto, no. 2 in C-minor. In 1909, Rachmaninoff completed what is commonly referred to as the "Nightmare Concerto." Written for his tour of a United States, this Piano Concerto in D-minor is over forty-five minutes in length! Because of its complexity, scope, and overall difficulty, it is often considered his magnum opus.
Extractions: e-mail: peter-alexander@uiowa.edu Release: April 9, 1999 Pianist Ksenia Nosikova will play her first UI faculty recital April 18 IOWA CITY, Iowa Pianist Ksenia Nosikova, who joined the faculty of the UI School of Music last fall, will play her UI solo recital debut at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 18 in Clapp Recital Hall on the UI campus. The recital will be free and open to the public. Although this will be Nosikova's first solo recital at the UI, she has already appeared in several campus performances. She performed with the UI Center for New Music in their East Coast tour and the preceding campus concert last fall, and she has performed chamber recitals with two of her fellow faculty members, bassoonist Benjamin Coelho in November and flutist Tadeu Coelho in March. Nosikova, a native Russian and graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, will play a program of pieces by or arranged by Russian composers. The first half will be devoted to some lesser-known works of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was one of the most dominating pianists and composers of the first half of the 20th century. She will play Rachmaninoff's piano arrangement of three movements from J.S. Bach's Partita in E major for solo violin; three smaller pieces titled "Lilacs," "Daisies," and "Humoresque," and the Variations on a Theme of Corelli, op. 42.
Telarc International - Sergei Rachmaninoff "A Window In Time" recording, made on a Bosendorfer 290SE Reproducing Piano, shows us more clearly thanever why rachmaninoff was regarded as perhaps the greatest pianist of his http://www.gmlile.addr.com/webrings/rachring/release.html
Extractions: A Breakthrough Recording Scientist and mathematician Wayne Stahnke, by using unprecedented new techniques of transfer and reproduction of Rachmaninoff's historic music roll performances, has eliminated the mechanical aspects of the process, revealing the nuances and fine details of Rachmaninoff's playing with a never-before-heard clarity. Previous recordings of the music roll performances have not approached this level of sound quality and realism. This spectacular new recording, made on a Bosendorfer 290SE Reproducing Piano, shows us more clearly than ever why Rachmaninoff was regarded as perhaps the greatest pianist of his time. With a poineering combination of scientific, electronic and mathematical processes, Stahnke has resurrected the subtleties of Rachmaninoff's performances, embedded in his music rolls, for the modern listener to enjoy. (from the Telarc website) Hear Mr. Stahnke describe the making of this CD from the 10-5-98 edition of the NPR program
Mega Foundation Great Classical Music - Concerti Rachy was a spectacular pianist. Horowitz also made nice recordings of these alsoon RCA with Ormandy rachmaninoff, sergei Piano Concerto 2 in C minor, Op. http://www.megafoundation.org/MegaBooks/FavGrMusic/Concerti.html
Extractions: Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel : Harpsichord Concerto in D major Bach, Johann Sebastian : Brandenburg Concerti C. Hogwood and Academy of Ancient Music, L'Oiseau Lyre Records OR T. Pinnock and The English Concert Deutsche Grammophon (DGG) Archiv. both are excellent original instruments versions of these warhorses. (buy the Pinnock set and get the four orchestral suites for free) Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter (DG-427)
Extractions: Full Review With a first name like Vladimir, youd expect Horowitz to be a monster. And he is. A soul-sucking, spell-casting creature of the night that, with mere hand movements, is able to drain your emotional existence from you like a vampire feasting on his prey. Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff is a collection of this virtuoso pianists performances of the works of the great Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Oregon Symphony News Releases In 1976, Ms. Andjaparidze became the first Soviet pianist to be awarded Ms. Andjaparidzepresented recital series in memory of sergei rachmaninoff at Steinway http://www.orsymphony.org/news/releases99-01/CL2release.html
Extractions: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Carrie Kikel Director of Public Relations OR Karen Pederson Public Relations Writer ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM TO FEATURE PIANIST ETERI ANDJAPARIDZE Portland, Ore. ... Eteri Andjaparidze, a pianist known for a commanding presence and exquisite technique, will join Music Director and Conductor James DePreist and the Oregon Symphony to perform Beethovens Emperor Concerto as part of an all-Beethoven program, Oct. 9 11, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Media support for Classical concerts is provided by The Oregonian. The recipient of her nations highest decoration, the Peoples Artist of Georgia, Andjaparidze was, at age 17, the youngest participant in the 1974 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition and was awarded Fourth Prize. Two years later, she became the first Soviet pianist to be awarded Grand Prix at the Montreal International Piano Competition. In 1991-93, she presented a recital series in memory of Sergei Rachmaninoff at New Yorks Steinway Hall, portions of which were televised on NBC. She made her American orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1992, received standing ovations for her performance then (Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 2) as well as for her 1996 return engagement performance (Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No.1).
A Portrait Of Russian Pianist Nikolai Lugansky this first Vanguard recording he traces rachmaninoff's darkly shimmering sergei Ipatov(this was the name of my teacher him from reaching the top as a pianist. http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Klassik_Heute.htm
Extractions: Edited by Valour Two years ago, in a supremely transparent interpretation of Chopin's Etudes , Nikolai Lugansky offered impressive evidence of his ability to present virtuoso pieces with undemonstrative ease, yet full of poetic meaning. Even before his victory in the 10th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he was already earning his place among the elite of the younger generation of pianists with impressive recordings of Rachmaninoff and successful debuts in Europe, South America and the Far East. And now a new recording of works by Chopin has been issued, his fourth with the French label Erato. However, it is not only Chopin and Rachmaninoff that the young Russian is able to play with sensitive brilliance: he has already approached works by the German Romantics with astonishing sensitivity, as his reading of Robert Schumann's Symphonic Etudes , in particular, demonstrates. The soft delicacy with which he plays the final posthumous variation, in which shimmering harmonies descend from high F with angelic tenderness, bears witness to his understanding of a psychological dimension which Germans and non-Germans both call, for want of a really accurate translation, "
