Selected Highlights from the Solo Piano Works-Rachmaninoff: The Authentic Collection for Piano is a songbook containing classics from the early 20th-century Piano repertoire by Kabalevsky Prokofieff Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky.Rachmaninoff: The Authentic Collection for Piano is a series of beautifully produced authentic editions with introductions and performance notes. Conatins highlights from the Authentic Editions of Rachmaninoff's finest Piano works including selections from Preludes Etudes-tableaux Moments Musicaux Morceaux de Fantaisie and Morceaux de Salon.Russian paintings from this period arefeatured on the cover in full colour.

2nd Movement-Transcription of the slow movement of Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto op 1. Programme note by Murray McLachlan: Rachmaninov's first concerto in F sharp minor op 1 was composed in 1891 and dedicated to Alexander Siloti. The work was substantially revised in 1917 with textures made much lighter. The revised version is also more concentrated and disciplined with the material eliminating some of the earlier episodic sections entirely from the score. The second movement is an exquisite 74 bar miniature a nostalgic nocturne that is contrapuntally rich. In this soloversion the use of all three pedals and the middle pedal in particular make it possible to project the multifaceted textures the 'colour counter-point' that along with Rachmaninov's chromaticism enhances his considerable melodic gifts. Was Rachmaninov the 'Russian Bach?' Certainly his genius for 'inner voices' 'inner melodies' and counter-melodies make his music an inexhaustible treasure house of possibility for the creatively charged solo pianist. In Rachmaninov's piano writing there is simply no such thing as 'padding' or anonymous accompaniments- every line can be vocally or orchestrally charged making the music glow with richness and inspiration. This transcription was given its world premiere on April 1- Rachmaninov's birthday- in 2017 in New York as part of a recital for the Lezetizky society. Further performances were given on what was an intense US Easter tour in Washington Texas Boston and Vermont. I've also performed the transcription in Canada and the UK.

Equally renowned as composer and pianist Rachmaninov dazzled the world with his piano concerto in C minor. It is immensely popular to this day. Brilliant and powerful with the beautiful lyric theme that became the popular song?Full Moon? and ?Empty Arms ? it is here presented in a lovely recording sans your part the solo piano. This deluxe 2-CD set includes a luxuriant 96-page newly engraved score plus a second slow-tempopractice accompaniment to help you get up to speed. The digital stereo compact disc features a complete performance of the concerto with orchestra and soloist and a second performance minus you the soloist; and the secondcompact disc contains a full-speed version of the complete version as well as a special -12% slow-tempo version of the accompaniment for practice purposes. The concerto is voluminously indexed for your practice and performanceconvenience.

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI / GERSTEIN KIRILL (Arr.). In the Silence of the Secret Night is a piano arrangement of Sergei Rachmaninoff?s setting of Afanasy Fet, taken from the composer?s song cycle Six Romances, Op. 4 (1890-93). The poem describes a fitful lover?s nocturnal yearning. This three-minute piece draws on pianist Kirill Gerstein?s idiomatic grasp of the composer?s music, transcribing the song in a way that recalls Rachmaninoff?s writing from the early 1900s. It makes for an ideal vignette in a recital programme or elegant encore, suitable for advanced players. 'In the transcription of Rachmaninov?s song?[Gerstein?s] musicianship was at once liberated and liberating.' The Observer (Fiona Maddocks) / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Piano

Concerto no. 2 in c minor op. 18 for Piano and Orchestra-Rachmaninoff???s legendary Opus 18 often lovingly referred to as Rach 2 ??? is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901 it proved to be a show-stopper around the globe finally helping cement Rachmaninoff???s international reputation as a composer. To this day the concerto???s enchanting themes and elegiac melodies in the strings are considered the trademark of Rachmaninoff indeed of Russian music in general. For the first Urtext edition of this pivotal work we were able to examine the original autograph score in Moscow???s Glinka Museum. Rachmaninoff???s own sound recordings were also consulted. The newly prepared pianoreduction ensures good playability: it accords exactly with the also newly edited orchestral score and parts. Both of these are available from Breitkopf and H?rtel.

Easy Piano arrangements of 16 favourites by Rachmaninoff. Complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer pianist and conductor.Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and as a composer one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

Internationally renowned concert pianist Joseph Banowetz presents this definitive collection of original masterworks by Sergei Rachmaninoff featuring a comprehensive preface, composer biography, vintage photographs, and detailed performance notes on the solos. A concert performance CD is included with the book. The most famous solo pieces by Rachmaninoff are included: Elgie, Prlude, and Polichinelle from Opus 3, Nocturne, Humoresque, and Romance from Opus 10, Moment Musical from Opus 16; and Rachmaninoff's transcriptions of works by other composers. Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie fr Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.

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.

Schirmer Performance Editions - with a CD of performances-Offering insightful interpretive suggestions pertinent fingering and historical and stylistic commentary the Schirmer Performance Editions series is designed for Piano students and teachers as well as professional pianists.This volume contains 11 pieces by the composer Serge Rachmaninoff including his most famous Piano piece - the Prelude In C-sharp Minor.Accompanied by a CD of recorded performances this book provides the advanced pianist with a newly-engraved and researched edition of the first half of Rachmaninoff's output of Piano preludes complete with historical notes and performancesuggestions.

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.

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.

Alongside HN 1264 (the Etude in e flat minor op. 39 5) Henle are now offering the Etude In C Major in a single edition taken from their much-loved complete edition of the 17 Études-Tableaux. Rachmaninoff greatly valued this work often included it in his concert programmes and also recorded it. A longing melody unfolds over a simple accompaniment. This charming piece that alternates between major and minoris a good technical exercise for the crossing over of the hands but does not contain nearly as many difficulties as Rachmaninoff?s other etudes and is thus also manageable by advanced amateurs. They will be aided in theHenle Urtext edition by the helpful fingerings provided by the virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin.

Sonatas Op. 28 Op. 36-From an earlier Belwin Mills edition this is Volume 5 of a series of the piano works of the great Russian-American composer. Included are Rachmaninoff's Opus 28 and Opus 36 Sonatas. The Opus 28 in D-minor in three movements was completed in 1907 and was introduced in Dresden Germany. The Opus 36 in B-flat minor also in three movements was written and 1913 but was later revised by the composer.