Rachmaninoff – Piano Compositions Volume 2.

Description

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.

The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff’s compositional output. He made a point of using his own skills as a performer to explore fully the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Even in his earliest works he revealed a sure grasp of idiomatic piano writing and a striking gift for melody.

This volume contains all of Rachmaninov’s works for Piano solo published after his departure from Russia in 1917.

Contents:

1. Bach: Prelude
2. Bach: Suite From the Violin Partita In E
3. Bizet: Minuet (L’arlesienne Suite No.1)
4. Daisies Op.38 No.3
5. Fragments
6. Gavotte [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
7. Gigue [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
8. Kreisler: Liebesfreud
9. Kreisler: Liebesleid
10. Moussorgsky: Hopak (Sorochintsy Fair)
11. Oriental Sketch
12. Piano Piece In D Minor
13. Scherzo (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) [Mendelssohn, Felix]
14. Schubert: Wohin? (Die Schone Mullerin)
15. Tchaikovsky: Lullaby
16. The Flight Of The Bumble Bee [Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay]
17. Variations On A Theme Of Correlli Op.42