Extractions: Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 by the composer himself, Sergei Rachmaninov (Naxos Historical) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 with Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 with Idil Biret (Naxos) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 featuring Earl Wild (Chandos) with Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa (BIS) The Ampico Rolls 1919-29 An Inktroduction with Recordings Recommendations The "Elegiac" Piano Trios with the Borodin Trio (Chandos) Music for Two Pianos : Suite No.2 op.17, Russian Rhapsody , and Symphonic Dances . With pianists Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko. Also features music by Medtner Orchestral Works:
Prokofiev.org - Toccata In D Minor Op.11 sergei Prokofiev pianist Composer(s) sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Miaskovsky,Alexander Scriabin, sergei rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov Artist(s) sergei http://www.prokofiev.org/catalog/workessential.cfm?WorkID=158
Iclassics.com - Classical Music And More Van Cliburn A Portrait of the Legendary pianist Price $29.99 Frédéric ChopinFranz Liszt sergei Prokofiev sergei rachmaninov Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/album.jsp?selectionId=9982
BBC - Music Profiles - Sergey Rachmaninov Piano Concertos 2 3 rachmaninov (piano), Philadelphia sergei Rachmaninoff A Lifetimein Music by Rachmaninoff Composer, pianist, Conductor by Barrie Martyn http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutmusic/profiles/rachmaninov.shtml
Extractions: The late Russian Romantic composer and piano virtuoso who spent many years in the USA. Rachmaninov developed a musical style all of his own, composing symphonies, works for piano and orchestra, sonatas, choral works and solo keyboard music which includes some of musics most memorable and best-loved themes.
Extractions: (Decca) Transcription - arranging a piece of existing music for a different instrument - has a long and illustrious history. In an age before recorded music, transcriptions enabled music lovers to more easily access orchestral and operatic repertoire and virtuosos to display their wit and ferocious keyboard talent. Bach metamorphosed simple hymn tunes into complex chorale preludes for organ; Liszt realised Schubert songs, among a multitude of other composers works, as florid fantasies. Flight of the Bumblebee (which can sting the fingers of the most dextrous pianist).
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VAE\A̹y - NVbN sergei Liapunov Composer and pianist - by Ryan Layne Whitney; sergei sergei RachmaninoffInformation Page - by Martin Ridgers; sergei rachmaninov - A Lifetime http://www.slavweb.com/jp/Russia/music/class-j.html
Sergei Rachmaninov sergei rachmaninov was not only one of the greatest rachmaninov again abandoned composition,however, when he and a career as an international concert pianist. http://hem.passagen.se/alkerstj/worldofclassicalmusic/early20th/sergei_rachmanin
Extractions: Originally wealthy, Rachmaninov's family was reduced to straitened circumstances by his father's extravagance, the resulting strain eventually leading to his parents' separation. In 1885, after an initial period of study at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, Rachmaninov was sent to study the piano with the strict teacher Nikolai Zverev, whose regimen required that the boy's piano practice begin every morning at six o'clock. Living at Zverev's also gave the young Rachmaninov the opportunity to meet such impressive musicians as Anton Rubinstein, Anton Arensky and, most crucially, Tchaikovsky, at Sunday afternoon gatherings. In 1888 Rachmaninov started taking composition lessons with Taneyev and Arensky, and the increasing importance to him of composing led to a breach with the piano-oriented Zverev. Before his graduation he wrote such successful works as the warmly emotional First Piano Concerto , the Trio elegiaque No. 1
Pianists, The Piano A pianist web site from the Netherlands. Forums, pianist audio samples, masterpianists, piano compositions. Pollini, Maurizio . R . rachmaninov, sergei. http://www.zeroland.co.nz/classical_pianists.html
- Great Books - sergei rachmaninov (18731943 rachmaninov began to study piano with his mother atthe age of successful, but exhausting career as a concert pianist enabled him http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_970.asp
Extractions: Rachmaninov began to study piano with his mother at the age of four. He continued his studies at the St. Petersburg and Moscow conservatories under Zvereff and Arenski. He is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all times, but is also remembered for his compositions and as a conductor. He fled from Russia, after the Communist Revolution in 1917, and he eventually based himself in the United States where he later became a citizen. His highly successful, but exhausting career as a concert pianist enabled him to support his family but left little time for composition. His music remains an indispensable part of Romantic repertory. The second of Rachmaninov's four piano concertos holds an unchallenged position among Romantic works in this form. Its popularity is closely rivalled by the "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ", for piano and orchestra. While the Symphonic Dances of 1940 enjoy some popularity, as well as the symphonic poem "The Rock" and the dark-hued "Isle of the Dead", with its recurrent motif from the Latin Requiem Mass, the second of his three numbered symphonies is still more familiar. Rachmaninov's first real success came in 1892 with the Prelude in C sharp minor. Other piano works include the Etudes-tableaux of 1911 and 1916-17, two sonatas, sets of Preludes and Moments musicaux, transcriptions, including the two Kreisler pieces Liebesleid and Liebesfreud, and the impressive Variations on a Theme of
CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES MP3/WMA: Sergei Glavatskih Born in Ekaterinburg in 1970, sergei Glavatskih began at the AllUnion Young pianist'sCompetition the was a prizewinner at the rachmaninov International Piano http://www.prs.net/artists/glavatskih.html
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) sergei Vassilievich rachmaninov (Rachmaninof, Rachmaninow, Rakhmaninoff He was agreat virtuoso pianist, a great conductor, and a great composer. http://members.tripod.com/~Wolfgang5/Rachmaninov.html
ThinkQuest Library Of Entries sergei rachmaninov. (1873 1943). Russian virtuoso pianist and composerin the Russian romantic style of piano and orchestral works. http://library.thinkquest.org/10400/html/composers/rachmanv.html
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Extractions: Order Composer Opus Music Key Recorded Performer Rachmaninov, Sergei Op. 3 Morceaux de Fantasie No 1 Elégie E flat minor Oleg Marshev, Piano Rachmaninov, Sergei Op. 3 Morceaux de Fantasie No 2 Prelude C sharp minor Rachmaninov, Sergei Op. 3 Morceaux de Fantasie No 3 Mé1odie E Major Rachmaninov, Sergei op. 3 Morceaux de Fantasie No 4 Polichinelle Rachmaninov, Sergei Op. 3 Morceaux de Fantasie No 5 Sérénade B flat minor Rachmaninov, Sergei Op. 36 Piano Sonata No 2 B flat minor Rachmaninov, Sergei Op. 42 Variations on a theme of Corelli Toccata, Jun 2001 Webmaster
Rachmaninov music so that when the four year old sergei decided he Theatre, Moscow and in thesame year rachmaninov gave his first public recital as a pianist, but the http://www.murraymclachlan.com/rachmaninov.html
Extractions: SERGEI VASSILYEVITCH RACHMANINOV Sergei Rachmaninov was undoubtedly one of the greatest performers ever and nobody who heard him playing Beethoven'sAppassionata, Chopin's B flat minor sonata or the Liszt transcriptions of Bach readily forgot him. Rachmaninov's father was an aristrocatric landowner who resigned his commission in the Cavalry's Guards of the Imperial Russian Army and retired to his estate in the Novgord district where he became involved in various musical activities. Lyou Boutakovia, Rachmaninov's mother had been born into a wealthy family and was also very interested in music so that when the four year old Sergei decided he wished to play the piano it was his mother who gave him his first piano lessons. Inside two months, Rachmaninov had achieved what a normal child would take two years to accomplish on the piano and was playing quite difficult works to visitors. Soon his mother engaged Anna Ornazkaya, an ex student of the St. John Petersburg Conservatoire as his teacher. Despite his interest in music Rachmaninov's father wanted him to enter the military academy at St Petersburg but his mother was equally insistent that he should go to the Anton Rubinstein Conservatoire in the same city. The matter was resplved when Rachmaninov obtained a scholarship to the conservatoire and as his father had squandered all his money he ws allowed to take it up.
Rachmaninov pianist who was known abroad he was a professor of Moscow conservatoire and by thisall he was also son of Maria Trubnikovova and rachmaninov's cousin. sergei http://www.fw.cz/rachmaninov/sr_bio.html
Extractions: 17.March 1892 was the day of the first performance of the first movement of the first concerto. 19.March 1892 was the day of school leaving exam from the class of composing. Rachmaninov received an envelope in which there was a script of opera that he had to compose. He impatiently opened the envelope. Aleko, libretto by Vl. Iv. Nemirovic-Dancenko on the theme of Pushkin's poem The Gypsies. He had one month to finish this work. On 6. April he brought his work to Arensky who couldn't believe his eyes. 7. May was the day of public performance of studets. Rachmaninov got the Big Gold medal and gold watches from Zverev who almost cryed. Aleko was printed by Gutcheil who paid for it and was first seriously performed on 27.April1893. In autumn at electric exhibition in Moscow Prelude C sharp minor was first played on public.......
Records: Sergei Rachmaninov's Songs | Feb 6, 1998 sergei Rachmaninov is best known for a few Unfortunately for rachmaninov and thelistener, this recording does disc is the performance of pianist Semion Skigin http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxv/2.6.98/ae/songs.html
Extractions: The Planet of Sound. Sergei Rachmani-nov is best known for a few over-recorded war-horses, such as his Piano Concertos 2 and 3 (the latter was featured in the movie Shine ), and his Second Symphony. Yet the Russian master was a prolific composer, writing in nearly every genre. Beyond his best-known works, much of his catalog is forgotten today. This is our great loss, as there are some truly sublime gems in that unknown canon. This disc gives credence to that claim with its selection of 24 short songs which hold up to the most delicate and tender lieder of Mahler, Wolf, and Brahms. The redeeming feature of the disc is the performance of pianist Semion Skigin, who plays with tender understanding throughout. The true worth and promise of this music shows in his playing, and my only hope is that these songs will be recorded by a singer with a more suitable voice and greater artistry. (BMG) [About the Yale Herald] [About Yale Herald Online] [This Week's Issue] [Search the Archives]
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.
300+ Naxos Recommendations rachmaninov, sergei (18731943) Concerto for Piano No. 1937-48) Moiseiwitsch was ideallysuited as a pianist to the music of his compatriot Sergey rachmaninov. http://www.hbdirect.com/feb/nxs300e.cfm
Extractions: Performed by Martin Haselbock, produced by Wolfgang Rubsam, and featuring the curiously rare music of the German master Georg Muffat, this recording earns one of the most unqualified and enthusiastic recommendations ever printed in these pages. Even more happily, the disc is noted to be "Volume One". What a happy series this will be!
