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This is a single issue of The Etude that features a cover of Sergei Rachmaninoff as well as an interview secured expressly for The Etude. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2 December 1900. The complete work was premiered, again with the composer as soloist, on 27 October 1901, with his cousin Alexander Siloti conducting.This piece is one of Rachmaninoff's most enduringly popular pieces, and established his fame as a concerto composer.At its 1897 premiere, Rachmaninoff's first symphony, though now considered a significant achievement, was derided by critics. Compounded by problems in his personal life, Rachmaninoff fell into a depression that lasted for several years. His second piano concerto confirmed his recovery from clinical depression and writer's block. The concerto was dedicated to Nikolai Dahl, a physician who had done much to restore Rachmaninoff's self-confidence. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Compositions by Sergei Prokofiev, List of Compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff, List of Compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Carmen Variations, List of Compositions by Scott Joplin, Polka de W.r., List of Solo Piano Compositions by Béla Bartók, List of Solo Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell, List of Solo Piano Compositions by Francis Poulenc, List of Solo Piano Compositions by György Ligeti, List of Solo Piano Compositions by Leo Ornstein. Excerpt:Vladimir Horowitz (1903 - 1989) Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) Variations on a Theme from Carmen are a set of variations composed and performed by the Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz , they are based on a gypsy dance from Georges Bizet 's opera Carmen . Background Of Horowitz's many transcriptions, the Carmen Variations were the only one to remain in his repertoire throughout his career. He played them from his earliest concerts in the 1920s, where he often wowed his audience with the "show stopping" encore , through to his golden jubilee season in 1978, over fifty years later. The main theme of the piece originates from the energetic gypsy dance from Act II of Bizet's opera Carmen , a theme that has been used by many for various other variations and transcriptions, including Moszkowski 's Chanson Bohème de l'Opéra Carmen . Although Horowitz had no desire to see the piece published, he performed it in many concerts and showed it to a couple of friends and acquaintances. He even made a piano roll of the piece, but always kept the score to himself. Horowitz's audiences loved the Carmen Variations and he was often compelled to perform them everywhere. Eventually Horowitz became tired of this as his audiences forgot the rest of the programme after the encore. Analysis The first few bars of the Carmen Variations (1968 Version) The piece ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Moscow Conservatory Alumni, Moscow Conservatory Faculty, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, David Oistrakh, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tikhon Khrennikov, Zachary Paliashvili, Alfred Schnittke, Andrei Gavrilov, Vadim Borisovsky, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Emil Gilels, Yuri Bashmet, Aram Khachaturian, Alexander Raskatov, Edison Denisov, Dmitry Malikov, Youri Egorov, Gregor Piatigorsky, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitry Smirnov, Boris Berezovsky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Freddy Cadena, Viktoria Mullova, Boris Belkin, Oleg Caetani, Oleg Marshev, Tanya Anisimova, Ivo Pogorelić, Radu Lupu, Gidon Kremer, Paul Juon, Sergei Lemeshev, Vladimir Martynov, Marina Goglidze-Mdivani, Levon Ambartsumian, Valery Sigalevitch, Fyodor Druzhinin, Mikhail Pletnev, Denis Matsuev, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Mikhail Bukinik, Alexander Toradze, Aleksandr Sokolov, Arcadi Volodos, Vladimir Chernov, Josef Lhévinne, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Rudolf Barshai, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Duo Crommelynck, Ilya Kaler, Konstantin Soukhovetski, Lev Oborin, Vladimir Krainev, Rustem Hayroudinoff, Mikhail Voskresensky, Anahit Nersesyan, Vladimir Feltsman, Sergei Babayan, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Modest Altschuler, Nikolai Lugansky, Vasily Lobanov, Artemi Ayvazyan, Eliso Virsaladze, Maxim Shostakovich, Camille Everardi, Bella Davidovich, Duncan Gifford, Alexander Vinogradov, Vladimir Spivakov, Regina Shamvili, Vladimir Tsybin, Anatoly Sheludyakov, Mischa Maisky, Vladimir Viardo, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Andrei Eshpai, Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina, Mikhail Jurowski, Aleksey Volodin, Dimitri Bashkirov, Stefan Popov, Dejan Bravničar, Konstantin Igumnov, Igor Oistrakh, Leonid Karev, Natalia Shakhovskaya, Solomon Khromchenko, Anton Salnikov, Aziz El-Shawan, Chingiz Sadykhov, Dmitri Kitayenko, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky, Roman Moiseyev, Alexander Goedicke, Nikolai Demidenko, Nikolai Sidelnikov...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24503 ... Read more

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Chapters: Leonard Bernstein, Raymond Smullyan, Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Tudor, Vladimir Horowitz, Stephen Kovacevich, Ferde Grofé, Claudio Arrau, David Burge, Bradley Joseph, Per Enflo, Percy Grainger, Leo Ornstein, Paul Jacobs, George Szell, Arthur Rubinstein, Henry Doktorski, Wolfgang Rübsam, André Previn, James Levine, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Jeffrey Kahane, Richard Kastle, Oscar Levant, Michael Tilson Thomas, Murray Perahia, Charlie Albright, Norman Dello Joio, Ervin Nyíregyházi, Joseph Alfidi, Paul Doguereau, Terry Burrus, Leon Fleisher, Richard Fuller, Martin Berkofsky, Morton Gould, Eugene List, Leopold Godowsky, Capitola Dickerson, Rudolf Firkušný, Mordecai Shehori, Benjamin Johnson Lang, Sarah Cahill, John L. Crain, David Deveau, Van Cliburn, Walter Bricht, Don Shirley, Leonard Gillman, Ferrante & Teicher, Dmitri Novgorodsky, Blanche Robinson, Sean Kennard, Harrison Slater, Amy Beach, Hephzibah Menuhin, Theodore Lettvin, Leonard Hokanson, Roger Wright, Jon Nakamatsu, Stewart L. Gordon, Phillip Ramey, Yaltah Menuhin, Rose and Ottilie Sutro, Orion Weiss, Hugh Sung, Jay Gottlieb, Min Kwon, Lincoln Mayorga, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, William Kapell, Awadagin Pratt, David Oei, Simone Dinnerstein, André Watts, Ray Lev, Karl Haas, Denver Oldham, Frederic Rzewski, Rudolf Serkin, Robert Black, Charles Rosen, Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Abbey Simon, Shelley Midura, Beth Levin, Gabriela Lena Frank, Edward Auer, Christopher O'Riley, Gold and Fizdale, Margaret Bonds, Ozan Marsh, Eric Himy, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Mark Wessel, Earl Wild, Walter Murphy, Benjamin Kim, Natan Brand, James Tocco, Egon Petri, Art Murphy, Marylene Dosse, Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Serkin, Byron Janis, Emanuel Ax, Abram Chasins, Louis Gruenberg, Eunice Norton, Jack Winerock, Richard and John Contiguglia, Mark Zeltser, Robert Goldsand, Raymond Lewenthal, Rosina Lhévinne, Angelin Chang, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Gary Graffman, Wladimir Jan Kochanski, Alexander Toradze, Andor Földes, Benno Rabinof and Sylvia Rabi... ... Read more

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Chapters: Pianist, Duke Ellington, Henry Mancini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jimmy Yancey, Manfred Clynes, Francis Rimbert, List of Compositions by Sigismond Thalberg, Jose Valdes, Wilhelm Schröter, Winifred Atwell, Rick Steves, Artur Pizarro, Andreas Grassl, Charlie Albright, Surendran Reddy, Alina Bercu, Adolfo Fumagalli, Constantin Sandu, Kevin Toney, Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, Fernando Otero, John L. Crain, Siglind Bruhn, Marvin Ash, Simon Tedeschi, Mehmet Okonsar, Shura Cherkassky, Joseph Banowetz, Mark Russell, Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz, Jean-Michel Soupraya, Bertram Fraser-Reid, Neecia Majolly, Papo Lucca, Dušan Trbojević, Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, Shauna Burns, Clive Lythgoe, Fito Páez, Graziella Concas, Katzenjammer, Robert Swirsky, Abigail Sin, Tommy Muellner, Eric Himy, Philippa Schuyler, Peter Nero, Käte Van Tricht, Di Wu, Lannie Battistini, Tim Freedman, Daejin Kim, Miles Black, Ernie Freeman, Clifford Borg, Vincent Lopez, Victor Merzhanov, Vladimir Valjarević, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Alessandra Celletti, Don Friedman, Jozef Kapustka, Del Wood, Stephane Ginsburgh, Steve "Big Man" Clayton, Riccardo Zegna, Jamie Brooks, Abraham Kefeli, Marko Savić, William Eddins, Sergio Ortega, Ruslan Sirota, Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, Eloy Monrouzeau, Jakob Gimpel, Donald Vega, Felix Fox, Dan Gregory, Claude Marc Bourget, Natalia Karp, Winifred Christie, Laurence Morton, Elza Kolodin, Bernward Koch, Vladimir Stoupel, Albert Périlhou, Vasily Lobanov, Leyla Pınar, Peter Elyakim Taussig, Eleanor Wong, Victor Simonson, Marco Tezza, William Dance, Frederic Chiu, Inna Heifetz, Louis Chauvin, Yuri Rozum, Geoff Stradling, Alexandre Rey Colaço, Zez Confrey, José Carlos Amaral Vieira, Denoe Leedy, Wolfram Lorenzen, Sergio George, Giampaolo Stuani, Kathryn Toyama, Luis Perdomo, Dimitri Bashkirov, Esteban Sánchez, Ethan Iverson, Ethella Chupryk, Daniel Blumenthal, Francis Reneau, Paul Trueblood, Raed George, Kenneth Hamilt...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=41536 ... Read more

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Chapters: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Diaghilev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nathan Milstein, Jascha Heifetz, Valery Gergiev, Anna Netrebko, Anatoly Lyadov, Solomon Volkov, Grigory Sokolov, Vasily Petrenko, Clara Rockmore, Ivan Yershov, Oleg Caetani, Vladimir Martynov, Martyn Brabbins, Arcadi Volodos, Semyon Mayevich Bychkov, Elina Karokhina, Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, Maxim Shostakovich, Alexander Barantschik, Lev Vinocour, John Landor, Aleksey Orlovetsky. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 175. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: , tr. Pëtr Il'ich Chaikovskiy IPA: ); often Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky in English; May 7, 1840 November 6, 1893 ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant, despite his obvious musical precocity. He pursued a musical career against the wishes of his family, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, with whom Tchaikovsky's professional relationship was mixed. Although he enjoyed many popular successes, Tchaikovsky was never emotionally secure, and his life was punctuated by personal crises and periods of depression. Contributory factors ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24503 ... Read more

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Music for piano solo of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, Opus 18, including Chord names. 48 pages ... Read more

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Paperback Music Book, piano solo edition with chord names included. Second Piano Concerto, Opus 18, by Sergei Rachmaninoff, edited by Albert Gamse. 1967, 48 pages, folio size, about 12 inches high. By Copa Music Publishing Company. ... Read more

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Chapters: Piano Concerto No. 4, Six Moments Musicaux, List of Compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff, All-Night Vigil, Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 1, Études-Tableaux, Piano Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphonic Dances, the Bells, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Polka de W.r., Russian Rhapsody, Three Russian Songs, Op. 41, Vocalise, Cello Sonata, the Rock, Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Morceaux de Fantaisie, Prince Rostislav, Scherzo in D Minor, Suite No. 2, Trio Élégiaque No. 1, Isle of the Dead, Trio Élégiaque No. 2, Suite No. 1, Caprice Bohémien, Piano Sonata No. 2, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Morceaux de Salon, Spring Cantata. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 134. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sergei Rachmaninoff completed his Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 in 1926 and the work currently exists in three versions. Following its unsuccessful premiere he made cuts and other amendments before publishing it in 1928. With continued lack of success, he withdrew the work, eventually revising and republishing it in 1941. The original manuscript version was released in 2000 by the Rachmaninoff Estate to be published and recorded. The work is dedicated to Nikolai Medtner, who in turn dedicated his Second Piano Concerto to Rachmaninoff. Compared to its predecessors, the Fourth contains sharper thematic profiles along with a refinement of textures in keyboard and orchestra. These qualities do not lead to greater simplicity but to a different sort of complexity. It was also a continuation of Rachmaninoff's long-range creative growth. The Third and the recomposed First Concertos were less heavily orchestrated than the Second. In keeping with its general character, the Fourth is lighter still yet more oblique. The concerto...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2770760 ... Read more

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Title: English Court of Queen's Bench denies summary judgment to Sotheby's of London in suit brought by descendants of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff to prevent auction of long-lost handwritten manuscript of his Second Symphony.
Publication: International Law Update (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Transnational Law Associates
Volume: 11Issue: 5Page: ITEM05158005

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Chapters: Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, Youth Symphony. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sergei Rachmaninoff (18731943) wrote his Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 at Ivanovka, an estate near Tambov, Russia, between January and October 1895. Despite its poor initial reception the symphony is currently seen as a dynamic representation of the Russian symphonic tradition, with British composer Robert Simpson calling it "a powerful work in its own right, stemming from Borodin and Tchaikovsky, but convinced, individual, finely constructed, and achieving a genuinely tragic and heroic expression that stands far above the pathos of his later music." The premiere, which took place in St. Petersburg on March 28, 1897, was an absolute failure for reasons which included under-rehearsal and the poor performance of the conductor Alexander Glazunov. Rachmaninoff subsequently suffered a psychological collapse, but did not destroy or disavow the score, which was left in Russia when he went into exile in 1917 and subsequently lost. In 1944, after the composer's death, the separate instrumental parts of the symphony were discovered, and from these the full score was reconstructed. The symphony's second performance took place at the Moscow Conservatory on October 17, 1945, conducted by Aleksandr Gauk. Following a general reassessment of Rachmaninoff's music the First Symphony has been performed frequently, and has been recorded several times. Moscow Conservatory, where Rachmaninoff graduated with honors in the spring of 1891.The First Symphony was actually Rachmaninoff's second attempt in the genre. During 189091, his final year at the Moscow Conservatory, he had been assigned by one of his composition teachers, Anton Arensky, to write a symphony...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2539421 ... Read more

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Chapters: The Miserly Knight, Aleko, Francesca Da Rimini, Monna Vanna, Salammbô. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aleko (1892)The Miserly Knight (1904)Francesca da Rimini (1905)Monna Vanna (1908)Salammbô (unfinished) The Miserly Knight, also The Covetous Knight, (Russian: , Skupój rýtsar) is a Russian opera in one act with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the libretto based on the drama of Alexander Pushkin. The composer decided essentially to set the Pushkin text as written, and had Feodor Chaliapin in mind for the role of the Baron. The first performance was on January 24 (old calendar, 11 January), 1906 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with the composer himself conducting, in a double-bill performance with another Rachmaninoff opera written contemporaneously, Francesca da Rimini. Productions of the opera have been rare. In addition, the characterization of the moneylender, who is identified in the story as being Jewish, has been criticized as anti-Semitic. The opera falls into three scenes. The setting is medieval era England Albert is a young knight who devotes himself to jousting and courtly pleasures, but is now deeply in debt as a result. His father, a very wealthy but equally frugal baron, refuses to support his son's lifestyle. Albert's ability to maneuver in society is now limited, and he tries to obtain a loan from outside his family. A money-lender denies Albert a loan, but instead offers Albert poison, to allow Albert to murder his father. Albert is appalled at such a suggestion. He resolves then to go to the Duke to make his appeal. The Baron descends to his cellars, exultant now because he has accumulated enough gold to fill his sixth and final storage chest, and gloats before them. However, he realizes that if he died soon, his...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2015668 ... Read more

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Chapters: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, David Oistrakh, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tikhon Khrennikov, Zachary Paliashvili, Alfred Schnittke, Andrei Gavrilov, Vadim Borisovsky, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Emil Gilels, Yuri Bashmet, Aram Khachaturian, Alexander Raskatov, Edison Denisov, Dmitry Malikov, Youri Egorov, Gregor Piatigorsky, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitry Smirnov, Boris Berezovsky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Freddy Cadena, Viktoria Mullova, Boris Belkin, Oleg Caetani, Oleg Marshev, Tanya Anisimova, Ivo Pogorelić, Radu Lupu, Gidon Kremer, Paul Juon, Sergei Lemeshev, Vladimir Martynov, Marina Goglidze-Mdivani, Levon Ambartsumian, Valery Sigalevitch, Fyodor Druzhinin, Mikhail Pletnev, Denis Matsuev, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Mikhail Bukinik, Alexander Toradze, Aleksandr Sokolov, Arcadi Volodos, Vladimir Chernov, Josef Lhévinne, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Rudolf Barshai, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Duo Crommelynck, Ilya Kaler, Konstantin Soukhovetski, Lev Oborin, Vladimir Krainev, Rustem Hayroudinoff, Mikhail Voskresensky, Anahit Nersesyan, Vladimir Feltsman, Sergei Babayan, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Modest Altschuler, Nikolai Lugansky, Vasily Lobanov, Artemi Ayvazyan, Eliso Virsaladze, Maxim Shostakovich, Bella Davidovich, Duncan Gifford, Alexander Vinogradov, Vladimir Spivakov, Regina Shamvili, Vladimir Tsybin, Anatoly Sheludyakov, Mischa Maisky, Vladimir Viardo, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Andrei Eshpai, Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina, Mikhail Jurowski, Aleksey Volodin, Dimitri Bashkirov, Stefan Popov, Dejan Bravničar, Konstantin Igumnov, Igor Oistrakh, Leonid Karev, Natalia Shakhovskaya, Solomon Khromchenko, Anton Salnikov, Aziz El-Shawan, Chingiz Sadykhov, Dmitri Kitayenko, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky, Roman Moiseyev, Alexander Goedicke, Nikolai Demidenko, Nikolai Sidelnikov, Alexander Lazarev, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Lev Naumov, Vladimir Fontikov, Aleksey Nasedkin, Lev Vin...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=99340 ... Read more