RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Concerto in C-sharp minor, op. 30; ARENSKY Fantasia on Russian Folksongs, op. 48 (2 CD set)

Music Minus One Piano Deluxe 2-CD Set-Together in one package Music Minus One brings you two of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest works for piano and orchestra Rimsky-Korsakov's Piano Concerto (1883) and his protege Anton Arensky's Fantasia on Russian Folksongs for Piano and Orchestra (1899). Both of these short concerted works are single-movement fantasias on Russian folk themes filled with the thunderous orchestrationa and big Russian sounds one associates with Imperial Russia. Both of these works present a perfect opportunity for the pianist or advancing student who wants to tackle a big Romantic-era concerted work but may not be ready for the full-scale concerto. With their relatively short lengths and onlymoderately-difficult piano parts they give the thrill of full-scale performance with significantly less investment than would be otherwise possible with longer works. This Music Minus One edition includes a CD containing the complete performance of the concerto in digital stereo a second digital stereo version of the concerto minus the soloist voluminously indexed for ease of practice and performance and a fully annotated score especially prepared for this MMO release printed on high-quality ivory paper with informative liner notes.