Format : Score
Just as Serge Rachmaninoff ranked among the greatest pianists of the 20th century his compositions for Piano and Orchestra won him an important position among modern composers.The major works that made his reputation include the first three Piano concertos reprinted here in a single volume from authoritative full-score Russian editions.
SKU: HL.51481206
UPC: 888680012991. 9.0x12.0x0.147 inches.
Rachmaninoff wrote his well-known piano cycle in 1931, at a time when his great works for piano solo and the piano concertos had already made him very famous. Yet it is by no means the “work of an old man”. The composers variations on the theme “La folia” (taken from a sonata by Corelli) are like a series of fireworks on the piano. He once drily said to a friend, “All this mad running about is necessary in order to efface the theme”. Did Rachmaninoff succeed in silencing “la folia” – i.e. the “madness”? Why not seefor yourself!
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