Format : Sheet music
SKU: AP.36-M140991
ISBN 9798888523940. UPC: 676737676070. English.
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) composed these 22 Variations on a Theme of Chopin between 1902 and 1903. The theme used is Frédéric Chopin's well-known Prelude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 20.
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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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SKU: HL.48023264
ISBN 9780851628387. 8.25x11.5x0.25 inches.
Arranged by Corneliu Dumbraveanu for chamber orchestra.
