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| | Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini |
 | | Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in Russia in 1873 (Elder, 1993). | | | Rachmaninoff was a concert pianist as well as a composer. | | | Rachmaninoff wrote the Rhapsody late in his life, in the summers from 1932-1934 at his Swiss villa, Senar (Abraham, MacDonald, Norris, McAllister, and Schwarz, 1986). |
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http://www.mid-mo.net/slgreene/rhap.htm
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| | SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| | Rachmaninoff made his first recordings for Edison Records on their "Diamond Disc" records, as at the time the Edison company had the best audio fidelity in recording the piano. | | | Rachmaninoff also made a number of piano rolls. | | | Initially disbelieving that a roll of punched paper could provide an accurate record, he was invited to listen to a master roll of his first recording in 1919 for the Ampico company. |
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http://www.singaporemoms.com/parenting/Sergei_Rachmaninoff
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| | Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky |
| | Rachmaninoff makes the piano "sing" with the passion of an operatic hero, though at the same time he also has it perform the most dazzling musical acrobatics with fiendish arpeggios (broken chords) and other types of virtuoso passagework. | | | The Cleveland Orchestra and Jean-Yves Thibaudet recorded all of Rachmaninoff's piano concertos under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy for Decca/London Records in 1993. | | | The "three hares" were the three sides of Rachmaninoff's musical career: composing, piano-playing, and conducting. |
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http://www.clevelandorch.com/images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/081603.html
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| | INKPOT -- Rachmaninoff - Transcriptions and Original Pieces - Vladimir Ashkenazy - DECCA |
| | Rachmaninoff was a masterly transcriber, adept at keeping the basic flavor of the music while spicing it up with his own harmonic and contrapuntal touches. | | | They are bon-bons for the audience – light, up-beat and a lot of fun to hear – a side of Rachmaninoff not heard as often in his own compositions – but not for the faint-of-heart, pianistically speaking. | | | The only other Rachmaninoff transcription disc that comes close to this one – and it is no relation in the works that are played – is Earl Wild’s recording of his own transcriptions of Rachmaninoff songs (once on Dell’Arte – could an Ivory reissue be pending?). |
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http://inkpot.com/classical/deccashtrans.html
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| | Most remarkable, and not evident to one unfamiliar with the chants of the church, Rachmaninoff preserves the obligatory repetitions of the text-phrases and makes them part of the musical plan, building gradually to great musical climaxes contrasted with the softest pianissimos. | | | At times the music preserves the quality of the simple chant; at times it is almost symphonic, using the voices in ever varying combinations and in the most dramatic use of full eight-part harmony. | | | Pre-Revolutionary Moscow was a center of musical culture, both in composition and in performance, and the young Rachmaninoff was immersed in this great musical heritage. |
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http://home.nycap.rr.com/octavosingers/vespers.htm
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| | Respighi TOCCATA FOR PIANO, Rachmaninoff RHAPSOY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI, Casella PARTITA FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA | | | Nevertheless, Rachmaninoff lived to see his music routinely sneered at and panned by the alleged representatives of musical "taste," the critics. | | | To hear Rachmaninoff's music is to understand the soul of the composer himself. |
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http://www.eroica.com/phoenix/jdt124-sr.html
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov |
| | Rachmaninoff wrote some first-class, highly lyrical music which many CD collectors have yet to discover, i.e.: the Piano Trios (performed by the Borodin Trio on Chandos CHAN 8341), the Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. | | | The second (CDS 3450) includes four Rachmaninoff compositions, all admirably performed by the San Diego Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yoav Talmi: Cinq Etudes Tableaux (Five Picture Studies), The Isle of the Dead, Vocalise for Orchestra and Capriccio Bohémien. | | | I shall always love Rachmaninoff, but I doubt that I shall ever relate to his music quite as much as I did back then. |
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http://www.fredflaxman.com/CompactDiscoveriesArticles/Rachmaninov.html
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| | The Rachmaninoff Revival -- Objectivist Center -- Reason, Individualism, Achievement, and Freedom |
| | Rachmaninoff, the critics said, was a throwback, a security blanket for those who lacked the sophistication to handle newer and more "difficult" music. | | | It seems the music of Rachmaninoff struck both institutions as important because, despite decades of relentless sneering and savaging by the self-anointed musical elite, Rachmaninoff continues to escalate in both popularity and respect among performers and concertgoers, who ultimately have the final say on what will be heard. | | | Meanwhile, the ideas expressed in the words of Rand, the music of Rachmaninoff, and the visions of Hollywood flow directly into the culture that is not only that of modern America but of all those in the world who love their lives and their freedoms. |
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http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/ebarnhill_rachmaninoff-revival.asp
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| | Marilyn Monroe, Rachmaninoff and...Hypnosis? |
| | As the character Candy Kane, she is listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, one of the most sensuous and romantic pieces of music ever written. | | | Although it has been 100 years since Rachmaninoff composed his Second Piano Concerto, its lyrical magic has survived the hackings of the record industry and the melodramatic applications of Hollywood. | | | The Second Piano Concerto is not the only popular piece written by Rachmaninoff. |
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http://www.laughingcherub.com/rachmaninoffandhypnosis.htm
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| | Isaac Laquedem: What Rachmaninoff was really thinking |
| | Rachmaninoff was both a composer and a concert pianist. | | | It is said that after one concert in which Rachmaninoff played the piano part for a premiere of one of his concerti, a friend asked him, "I noticed that during the pauses you were staring off into space. | | | Today's Oregonian reports how the Oregon Symphony found a last-minute replacement pianist to attack Rachmaninoff's Third [not Second, as I had mistyped this morning] Concerto for piano and orchestra, a notoriously difficult work that many concert pianists simply don't attempt. |
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http://isaac.blogs.com/isaac_laquedem/2004/10/what_rachmanino.html
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| | Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff |
| | Rachmaninoff’s father was also a capable piano player, but he never pursued music as a career (Piggott 12). | | | Rachmaninoff began work on his first symphony (symphony in D minor) in 1895. | | | Rachmaninoff’s grandfather was said to have composed a bit as well. |
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http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sina/papers/stravinsky/stravinskyFinal.htm
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff, The Bells |
| | But not so Rachmaninoff: he introduces by various degrees the Dies Irae, centuries old, but appropriated by the composer as his musical signature. | | | Rachmaninoff’s gloomy finale had a distinguished precedent in Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony. | | | His version reflects the cheer, joy, and hope of the original. |
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http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/1999_10_15/rachmaninoff.cfm
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| | Medialunchbox - Music : Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Balakirev / Lang Lang |
| | Medialunchbox - Music : Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Balakirev / Lang Lang | | | It's a huge distance from Haydn to Rachmaninoff, but Lang has complete command of Rachmaninoff's extravagant virtuosity, and he makes this bombastic piece--not one of the composer's best--sound like convincing music. | | | Summary: Not a disc for a classical music... |
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http://www.medialunchbox.com/ItemId/B000059SYO
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| | classical music - andante - vladimir ashkenazy on sergei rachmaninoff |
| | Vladimir Ashkenazy, who is conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in three concerts in Lincoln Center's "Rachmaninoff Revisited" series, has been associated with the composer's music all his life, from his early years as a piano student in Moscow to his intuitive performances as a conductor and pianist today. | | | But Rachmaninoff was not just the composer of the Second Piano Concerto and the C-sharp minor Prelude. | | | You wouldn't really recognize the Rachmaninoff of the Symphonic Dances from the naive Rachmaninoff of the early piano pieces, the opera Aleko and the First Symphony. |
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http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=15463
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff |
| | But sit back and listen closely and you'll notice that while Rachmaninoff has transcended the score and is turning the piece into what it should be, a fantasie, a piece of impromptu nature that should be allowed to fly with one's fancy and one's imaginations. | | | Anyone who knows anything about Rachmaninoff should already know this..Rachmaninoff was VERY well known for having a flaire for improvising in his own pieces, and being that he is the very own composer of these pieces he is very well justified in doing so. | | | Buy this to listen to Rachmaninoff, the master himself. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001VHX?v=glance
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| | Rachmaninoff's Kolokola and the Change of Poetic Meaning in Translation |
| | Because Rachmaninoff's text is not Poe's, Kolokola is not a literal setting of Poe's poem, but, rather, Rachmaninoff's musical interpretation of the poem as translated by Balmont. | | | Kolokola, which Rachmaninoff often called his favorite composition, is based on Edgar Allen Poe's The Bells (pub. | | | Should an English performance present the words refit to Poe's original poem as closely as Rachmaninoff's music allowed, or should the words be a translation of the meaning of Balmont's Russian text? |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~akuster/music/rachmaninoff/kolokola.htm
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| | Rachmaninoff Webring Homepage |
| | Rachmaninoff's music, although written mostly in the 20th century, remains firmly entrenched in the 19th-century musical idiom. | | | His lyricism, devoid of any particular innovation, is especially evident in the large number of songs he composed, even more than in his piano compositions. | | | It was at that time and during musical feuds in Moscow between several divisions in the large family of Russian composers that Rachmaninoff's compositions were clearly classified and his place in Russian music defined. |
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| | Rachmaninoff - Greatest Hits - Opinions and Reviews |
| | rachmaninoff: piano concerto no 3 vocalise / kissin ozawa | | | rachmaninoff: works for piano and orchestra / simon slatkin | | | rachmaninoff: piano concertos no 2 3 piano works etc |
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| | biblio.html |
| | There is an idea of Rachmaninoff that it had been much difficult for him to write a piece of music like or a little piece for piano than a concerto or a symphony. | | | Rachmaninoff entry includes “CD Reviews: All works, Concertos, Piano music, Symphonies” “CD Listings: All works, Concertos, Piano music, Symphonies” “Sound samples: info: Piano Concerto No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 3, Prelude in C sharp minor. | | | Harmonic and tonal aspects of three symphonies of Rachmaninoff are the musical component examined in this dissertation. |
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| | Rachmaninoff went on to compose many more pieces, including his twenty-three preludes, none of which he ever copyrighted, losing the fame and fortune in royalties. | | | He made many records of his own work, enabling us to step back in time, to remember those jewels with a sense of grand, bold power, which was exactly what Rachmaninoff thrived successfully to create. | | | But the compositions he did create are those of great necessity to the human ear. |
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http://atdp.soe.berkeley.edu/9931/htsai/rachmaninoff.html
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff News |
| | The Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff is one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written. | | | The sale of the manuscript of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony was canceled Tuesday after, Alexandre Rachmaninoff, a grandson of the composer, contested its ownership and stopped the sale with a court... | | | Choreographer Margaret Wingrove unveils a new suite of dances, which are set to the music of... |
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http://www.topix.net/who/sergei-rachmaninoff
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| | Crescat Sententia: April 27, 2004 Archives |
| | But my recording is of Rachmaninoff's own arrangement, piano-violin-cello, and I don’t see a balance problem (unlike my other favorite piano trio, the Fauré, where the strings sometimes get lost altogether). | | | Invariably, a lilting exchange between the violin and the cello will crescendo into a far busier, heavier, more agitated fight with each other and the piano. | | | It’s a good recording, too: the instruments could easily be the voices of people sitting around a samovar, shaking their heads, lamenting. |
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http://www.crescatsententia.org/archives/2004_04_27.html
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| | Powell's Books - Sonata No. 1 and Other Works for Solo Piano by Serge Rachmaninoff |
| | His piano music, brimming with emotional melody and late Russian romanticism, is still widely played, including a number of pieces that are staples of the concert repertoire. | | | Famed as a composer, conductor, and pianist, Serge Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) ranks among the most important figures in 20th-century music. | | | Reproduced from early authoritative editions, this fine new compilation will delight pianists, admirers of Rachmaninoff, and any music lover. |
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0486418855-0
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| | Rachmaninoff |
| | The background music you are hearing is Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. | | | For many years some musicians considered him more a pianist who had struck lucky in a few works, notably the Second Piano Concerto, but Sergei composed more than just that, his symphonies are among the most expressive for orchestra. | | | These are the traits that makes Rachmaninoff unique; a good example is the deeply poetic melody that opens the Third Piano Concerto. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/8109/rach.html
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff Music and Book Shop at Amazon.Com |
| | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 2 / Gutierrez, Maazel | | | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 3 / Horowitz, Ormandy | | | Rachmaninoff: Symphony no 1, Isle of the Dead / Jansons, St. Petersburg PO |
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| | KTEH's Rediscovering Rachmaninoff Release |
| | Nancy Reeves, producer of Rediscovering Rachmaninoff, is a Cabrillo Slavonic Chorus member who felt compelled to record the story of Antolini's discovery, and the choir's journey, on video. | | | It was essential that everyone hear this music, and no one knew exactly why it was so essential. | | | Reeves says people in Russia wept as they listened to the liturgy, unheard for so many years. |
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| | Young Students Learning Library: RACHMANINOFF, SERGEI (1873-1943)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian musician who won fame both as a concert pianist and as a composer. | | | Rachmaninoff's first symphony was so severely criticized that he stopped composing for a time. | | | Rachmaninoff was born on his family's estate near Novgorod, Russia. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28017098&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff |
| | Rachmaninoff's music, particularly his piano compositions, are characterized by their dark and massive chords, whose dramatic effects and strong melodic lines have made them enormously popular. | | | Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilyevich (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition) | | | The return of Rachmaninoff Ravinia tribute puts Russian composer's work back in the spotlight.(Time Out!) (Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)) |
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| | Stereophile: Recording of June 2001: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto 2 |
| | Grimaud wonderfully captures all of these moods, as well as the lingering nostalgia present in all of Rachmaninoff's music. | | | Born in Aix-en-Provence and currently living in Quebec with a pack of pet wolves, Grimaud's performance at age 15 of Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata 2 brought her international attention. | | | Stereophile: Recording of June 2001: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto 2 |
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http://www.stereophile.com/recordingofthemonth/373
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| | Rhodes: Internationally Renowned Music Scholars and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra to Spotlight Rachmaninoff ... |
| | Keynote participants will include Dr. Valentin Antipov who is general editor of the collected works of Rachmaninoff; David Loebel, music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, who will participate in a round-table discussion titled “Conducting Rachmaninoff;” and Dr. Harlow Robinson of Northeastern University who will present a lecture on Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. | | | Scholars and musicians from Canada, England, the Netherlands, Russia, and the U.S. will participate in a conference of presentations and musical performances connected with Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). | | | Free and open to the public, the concert begins at 3:00 p.m. |
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http://www.rhodes.edu/NewsCenter/NewsArchive/RachmaninoffConference2005.cfm
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| | Illness stalls Rachmaninoff fest by a day |
| | Their program includes several preludes as well as the G Minor Sonata for Cello and Piano and selections from Six Duets for Four Hands. | | | The Ravinia Festival's immersion in the music of Rachmaninoff, originally scheduled to kick off Monday, will begin Tuesday instead. | | | July 9 a newly commissioned video by Juliano Sarmento will accompany a performance of Rachmaninoff's "The Isle of the Dead'' by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-rav30.html
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Rachmaninoff - Vocalise / Rachmaninoff, Moffo, Kissin, Galway, Tomita, Swenson, Asawa, Luboff Choir |
| | Rachmaninoff - Vocalise / Rachmaninoff, Moffo, Kissin, Galway, Tomita, Swenson, Asawa, Luboff Choir | | | Amazon.com: Music: Rachmaninoff - Vocalise / Rachmaninoff, Moffo, Kissin, Galway, Tomita, Swenson, Asawa, Luboff Choir | | | Buy this album with Rachmaninoff for Relaxation ~ Janos Starker (Performer), et al today! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SB08?v=glance
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| | Pravda.RU Moscow To Host Presentation Of Rachmaninoff Piano Contest |
| | The Rachmaninoff contest will involve not only competition proper, but also some fringe events, such as a performance in Pasadena of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev. | | | A solo concert of the bright pianist Vesselin Stanev took place yesterday in the Rachmaninoff’s hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. | | | The second and the third prizes, worth $20,000 and $15,000 respectively, also envisage appearance in concert and recording activity. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/culture/2001/11/23/21839.html
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| | The Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio |
| | 50 trio in the use of variations and in the concerto-like, orchestral third movement which features a virtuosic piano part, performed by Rachmaninoff himself at the premiere in January 1894. | | | The young composer also echoed the structure and style of his mentor’s Op. | | | Rachmaninoff was on the brink of international fame at the time, having just premiered his prelude in c-sharp minor (which would soon catapult him to stardom) and made his first public appearances as a pianist. |
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http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/featured_artists/golubkaplan.html
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| | Sheet Music Plus Results |
| | Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini For piano... | | | Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Opus 34, No. 14 - Piano Solo Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, arranged by Robert Schultz. | | | Format: piano duet score (2 copies necessary for performance). |
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| | Rachmaninoff Festival/Conference, College Park, MD, April 1998 |
| | Photographs of Rachmaninoff belonging to the International Piano Archives at Maryland will be on exhibition, along with various documents, including the score of the Third Piano Concerto that Rachmaninoff inscribed to Josef Hofmann. | | | A primary focus of the festival will be discussions and performances of Rachmaninoff's First and Third Piano Concertos. | | | Rodriguez will present performances of the Third Piano Concerto and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra. |
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http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/98-4-rac.html
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| | Greg Sandow -- Rachmaninoff 3d Comparisons |
| | With Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, on the two-CD Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff, which gives you all four piano concerti and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. | | | Among other things, we talked about this recording, and Thibaudet told me -- with disarming honesty -- that he's "reassured" by Rachmaninoff's own version, which (as you'll hear below) is in its own way pretty cerebral. | | | A 1951 recording, with Fritz Reiner conducting the RCA Victor Symphony, on Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (RCA 7754-2-RG). |
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http://www.gregsandow.com/rach3.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music |
| | It gives a glimpse into Rachmaninoff's private life, which very little is known about, and shows Rachmaninoff for the true musical genius that he is. | | | Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical > Composers > Rachmaninoff, Sergei | | | Amazon.ca: Books: Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253214211
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| | Ravinia - Rachmaninoff Festival |
| | The concert also features two Rachmaninoff classics: the Caprice bohemian and the pyro-technical "Rach Three" piano concerto. | | | Celebrating their 30th anniversary season at Ravinia, pianist Misha Dichter and his wife and musical partner Cipa Dichter welcome cellist Yves Dharamraj for an evening of Russian music, featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Arensky and Shostakovich. | | | The oil painting Isle of the Dead is re-created on huge video screens in perfect time to Rachmaninoff's music of the same name. |
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http://www.ravinia.org/RaviniaU/rach_main.aspx?&month=9&year=2004
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| | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor |
| | Rachmaninoff played the piano for the legendary writer, who reacted by saying, ``Tell me, is such music needed by anybody?... | | | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor | | | Sergei Rachmaninoff's difficulties began in 1897, when his newly completed First Symphony was viciously denounced by critics-one even suggested that the work might have been produced by ``a Conservatory in Hell.'' The young man was devastated, and for several years had great difficulty applying himself to his work. |
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http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/rachmaninoff/pianoCon2.html
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff Notes |
| | It was Siloti who introduced the music of Rachmaninoff to London audiences by the playing the Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. | | | (Music manuscripts, paper, and record collection of Rachmaninoff) | | | Siloti conducted when Rachmaninoff played; and at these concerts as well as the composer other notable artists who appeared were the cellists, Pablo Casals and Brandoukov, the violinist, Eugene Ysäye, and Fedor Chaliapin. |
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| | But for those of you who complain about how boring classical music is, just remember, you would not have the music you like to listen to if it had not been for Rachmaninoff and his fellow composers. | | | A Young Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff's Gravestone Playing the Piano | | | Piano Concert No. 3 A Painting of Sergei Rachmaninoff in Concert |
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| | Rachmaninoff's Vocalise |
| | It is a classic performance of a truncated version necessitated by limited playing time of a 78 rpm disc when the recording was made with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1929. | | | A fascinating concept —thirteen different performances/arrangements of Rachmaninoff's lovely Vocalise, Op. | | | The voice sings a vowel sound "ah" or "ooh" and is treated as an instrument. |
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http://classicalcdreview.com/vocalise.htm
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| | The Rachmaninoff Web Pages - Links |
| | A Comprehensive Compilation of Lyrics to Rachmaninoff's Songs, in English and Cyrillic | | | Wayne Stahnke's Rachmaninoff Piano Roll Transfers on Telarc | | | Rachmaninoff Headlines the List of Top 12 Pianists of the Century! |
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| | Misha Dacic plays Rachmaninoff with soul, admired by Lawrence Budmen |
| | Rarely have the melancholy and nostalgia of Rachmaninoff's music been brought to life with such emotional fervor and beauty! | | | (His Piano Concerto No 3 has become a standard competition piece.) Concert performances and recordings abound, but all too often Rachmaninoff's music is played in a mechanical, note perfect, superficial manner. | | | Yet his music has become a pillar of the pianistic repertoire. |
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http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2003/12/dacic1.htm
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| | Sergei Rachmaninoff Russian Composer |
| | Rachmaninoff Archives—The Library of Congress's collection of the music manuscripts, papers, and records of Sergei Rachmaninoff | | | During his career Rachmaninoff wrote 145 compositions, including piano concertos and symphonies. | | | KlavierSpiel's profile of two Rachmaninov compositions for piano: The c# minor prelude, op. |
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| | The Sergei Rachmaninoff Web Pages Archives |
| | From 1998 through 2005, we had one of the most visible presences in celebrating the musical genius of Sergei Rachmaninoff on the www. | | | Rachmaninoff Reviews: Reviews of Recordings and Concerts, New and Old | | | I regret that I have had to put one of the greatest composers, pianists and conductors in musical history in mothballs, but time no longer permits me to keep this, the Ormandy website and the Jean Sibelius Web Pages current. |
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http://home.flash.net/~park29/rachmaninoff.htm
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| | Rachmaninoff: Aleko (DE 3269) |
| | Delos' new complete recording of the opera features four star soloists, Constantine Orbelian and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and a unique value-added spoken word companion disc with Michael York and Russian actor Vassily Lanovoy. | | | The wide appeal of this unique performance embraces opera enthusiast and Rachmaninoff collector alike. | | | Opera may not have been of central importance to Sergei Rachmaninoff's long and diverse creative life, but if one looks at the early years of his professional career a very different picture emerges. |
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http://www.delosmus.com/item/de32/de3269.html
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