Opus 32 Nr. 5-Sergei Rachmaninov?s second book of Préludes op. 32 was written in the summer of 1910 at his family?s idyllic country house in Ivanovka. This sleepy rural area inspired the composer to this wonderful Impressionistic G-majorPrélude. It is not very difficult and is thus also suitable for advanced amateur pianists. Thanks to the cooperation of the Glinka Archive in Moscow all the autograph sources were consulted for this Henle Urtext edition of thePréludes. As in all of our Rachmaninov editions the fingerings are by Marc-André Hamelin.

The third volume in the popular Piano Compositions series. This book contains Rachmaninov's five Morceaux De Fantasie Op.3 composed in 1892 and the seven Morceaux De Salon Op.10 composed in 1893/4.

Prélude g minor op. 23 no. 5-As indestructible as Rachmaninoff?s C-sharp-minor Prélude (HN 1211) may be it is not his only Prélude to have begun a ?solo career? of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section the famous piecein G minor certainly takes its place among them. Pianists who aren?t yet ready to tackle the complete cycle of 24 Préludes (available as HN 1200) can still enjoy Rachmaninoff ?at his best? with this work.Inconjunction with Moscow?s Glinka Archives we were able to consult the autograph sources for our Urtext edition of the Préludes which means that this single edition thus also benefits from the Urtext?s excellent editorial andgraphic quality. As with all of our Rachmaninoff editions the fingerings were once again provided by Marc-André Hamelin.

The Complete Piano Player: Rachmaninoff contains 17 pieces by the renowned composer newly arranged for easy Piano.Many of Sergei Rachmaninoff?s compositions prominently featured the Piano theinstrument upon which he excelled as a performer both in his native Russia and later as an émigré in Europe and the US. The seventeen pieces collected here reflect his fondness for song-like melodies and sumptuous harmoniccolouration as well as evoking an exile?s memories of Russian church bells and Orthodox chants. This collection uses fingering and chords familiar from the renowned The Complete Piano Player teaching books. In doing so itputs the music of one of Russia?s finest composers and pianists at your fingertips.

Original key for high voice-Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs Op. 34 in 1912 but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise which soonoutshone the other songs in terms of popularity and renown. Since its first performance in 1916 this expressive melancholy piece has circulated in countless arrangements by others.Rachmaninoff himself made anarrangement for Orchestra and Voice as well as one for orchestra alone. Our Urtext edition contains the original version for High Voice and Piano and is based on the autograph sources in the Glinka Museum in Moscow. A particularhighlight is the separate vocal part that not only serves singers well but also all those instrumentalists who wish to play this wonderful piece using the original solo part.