Product Description:
This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff’s piano music reflects the "best of the best" — selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the first time in a single collection are the Prelude in C-sharp Minor; three exquisite Etudes-Tableaux from Op. 33 and 39; seven best-loved Preludes from Opp. 23 and 32; three Moments Musicaux from Op. 16; the "Barcarolle" and "Humoresque" from Morceaux de salon, Op. 9, and the charming “Polichinelle” from Op. 3.
 

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ISBN 10:  0486431223 
ISBN 13:  9780486431222 
Author/Editor:  Serge Rachmaninoff 
Format:  Music Scores 
Page Count:  96 
Dimensions:  9 x 12 
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Publication date:  January 2004 
 

Rachmaninoff Masterpieces for Solo Piano: 17 Works by Serge Rachmaninoff

This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff’s piano music reflects the "best of the best" — selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the first time in a single collection are the Prelude in C-sharp Minor; three exquisite Etudes-Tableaux from Op. 33 and 39; seven best-loved Preludes from Opp. 23 and 32; three Moments Musicaux from Op. 16; the "Barcarolle" and "Humoresque" from Morceaux de salon, Op. 9, and the charming “Polichinelle” from Op. 3.

 

Table of Contents：

From Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 (1892)
No. 2 Prelude in C-sharp Minor
No. 4 Polichinelle
From Morceaux de salon, Op. 10 (1893-4)
No. 3 Barcarolle
No. 5 Humoresque
From Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 (1896)
No. 3 Andante cantabile in B Minor
No. 4 Presto in E Minor
No. 5 Adagio sostenuto in D-flat Major
From Ten Preludes, Op. 23 (1903)
No. 1 in F-sharp Minor
No. 4 in D Major
No. 5 in G Minor
No. 6 in E-flat Major
From Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32 (1910)
No. 2 in B-flat Minor
No. 10 in B Minor
No. 12 in G-sharp Minor
From Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33 (1911)
No. 2 in C Major
No. 7 in G Minor
From Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39 (1916-17)
No. 5 in E-flat Minor