Sergei Rachmaninov: Rachmaninoff: Complete Preludes: Piano: Instrumental Album

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.

Rachmaninov completed these gorgeous (and less demanding than one would expect) piano duets in April of 1894 at the ripe age of 21. They are magnificent and show the lush command of the piano this Russian Romantic would make his signature. Play either the primo or secondo part and luxuriate!

These 24 preludes and 17 etudes-tableaux include what are possibly Rachmaninoff's finest compositions for solo Piano. Reproduced from authoritative Russian editions Serge Rachmaninoff: Complete Preludes And Etudes-Tableaux includes the popular C-sharp minor prelude Op. 3 No. 2; the G-minor prelude Op. 23 No. 5; and the B-minor prelude Op. 32 No. 10.

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.

From an earlier Belwin Mills edition this is Volume 2 of a series of the piano works of the great Russian-American composer. These compositions were written as 'picture pieces' though Rachmaninoff did not reveal what each piece was to suggest preferring to leave that discovery to the pianist. This book contains the complete Opus 33 and Opus 39 works

24 Préludes-Based on the Prélude in C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2 written in 1892 that quickly became world-famous Rachmaninoff composed a further two collections of Préludes in the years up to 1910. These were also published as acomplete volume in 1911.Based on the corresponding models by Chopin Scriabin and their great forerunner J.S. Bach they comprise a cycle of 24 Préludes in all major and minor keys but unlike the other onesare not organised systematically according to keys. A final highlight of late Romantic Piano music which no pianist can ignore.

Dramatic and lyrical by turns this work displays Rachmaninov's keyboard characteristics: intense Russian flavor rich and bold sonorities compelling rhythmic drive and brilliant virtuosity. Rachmaninov shows here a very fine grasp of the medium of two pianos his haunting sense of melody and his richly harmonic and rhythmic foundation. Altogether it ranks as a very important contribution to two-piano literature. Arranged for 2 Pianos 4 Hands this edition includes two complete copies of the work.