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De renommée internationale pianiste Joseph Banowetz présente cette collection inspirée des plus précieux chefs-d'oeuvre d'origine de Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ce volume comprend une préface complète avec des notes de performance détaillées sur la musique, photographies d'époque et la biographie du compositeur. Le CD d'accompagnement comprend une brillante performance par Joseph Banowetz.Joseph Banowetz a obtenu un Premier Prix de la Vienne Akademie für Musik und Kunst darstellende. Banowetz a été un récital de piano soliste et orchestre sur les cinq continents. Il a reçu la Médaille Liszt par la Société hongroise de Liszt en reconnaissance de ses performances exceptionnelles de Liszt et la littérature romantique. / Piano

The Piano Works of Rachmaninoff Volume III: Morceaux de salon Op. 10 and Six moments musicaux Op. 16 Rachmaninoff Sergei (1873 - 1943) At the age of 20 having recently graduated from the Moscow Conservatory Rachmaninoff wrote his Morceaux de Salon Op. 10 in 1893 and 3 years later the six Moments Musicaux. These beautiful works display a simple often Chopinesque style of romanticism while bearing the unmistakable Russian flavor the composer captured in all his work. This is the 1989 Belwin-Mills edition.

Corelli Variations op. 42-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?.Thecomposer?s 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 see for yourself.

The Boosey Masterworks Library is a truly fantastic collection of popular works from the orchestral repertoire presented in clearly notated and meticulously documented scores.This volume presents the full orchestral score of Rachmainov’s first two piano concertos which remain ever popular in the concert pianist’s repertoire the second piano concerto even more so. The first two piano concertos frame a prolonged period of self-examination and doubt in Rachmaninov’s life his earlier works were not received with great acclaim. However his resurgence as a composer on the international concert platform was brought about by his composition of thePiano Concerto No.2 in C Minor Op.18 which since its first performance remains one of the most important and popular works in the repertoire. This full orchestral score is a wonderful resource for study and perusal purposes and is clearly presented making it easy to read and follow.Note that the revised version (written in 1917) of the first piano concerto is that which is presented in this score.

This generous compilation of Rachmaninoffâ??s Piano music reflects the 'best of the best' â?? selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great Keyboard artists as Horowitz Richter Gilels Cliburn and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the first time in a single collection are the Prelude in C-sharp Minor; three exquisite Etudes-Tableaux from Op. 33 and 39; seven best-loved Preludes from Op. 23 and 32; three Moments Musicaux from Op. 16; the Barcarolle and Humoresque from Morceaux de salon Op. 9 and the charming Polichinelle from Op. 3.

This compilation of works by one of the 20th century's most important figures includes Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28 notable for the exquisite melancholy of the slow movement in addition to three character pieces: Melodie Op. 3 No. 3; Polichinelle Op. 3 No. 4; and Nocturne in A minor Op. 10 No. 1. Also included are the very popular Six Moments Musicaux Op. 16 and Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22.Reproduced from early authoritative editions.

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.