Easy Piano arrangements of 16 favourites by Rachmaninoff. Complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.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.

Internationally renowned concert pianist Joseph Banowetz presents this definitive collection of original masterworks by Sergei Rachmaninoff featuring a comprehensive preface, composer biography, vintage photographs, and detailed performance notes on the solos. A concert performance CD is included with the book. The most famous solo pieces by Rachmaninoff are included: Elgie, Prlude, and Polichinelle from Opus 3, Nocturne, Humoresque, and Romance from Opus 10, Moment Musical from Opus 16; and Rachmaninoff's transcriptions of works by other composers. Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie fr Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.

De renommée internationale pianiste Joseph Banowetz présente cette collection inspirée des plus précieux chefs-d'oeuvre d'origine de Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ce volume comprend une préface complète avec des notes de performance détaillées sur la musique, photographies d'époque et la biographie du compositeur. Le CD d'accompagnement comprend une brillante performance par Joseph Banowetz.Joseph Banowetz a obtenu un Premier Prix de la Vienne Akademie für Musik und Kunst darstellende. Banowetz a été un récital de piano soliste et orchestre sur les cinq continents. Il a reçu la Médaille Liszt par la Société hongroise de Liszt en reconnaissance de ses performances exceptionnelles de Liszt et la littérature romantique. / Piano

Concerto no. 2 in c minor op. 18 for Piano and Orchestra-Rachmaninoff???s legendary Opus 18 often lovingly referred to as Rach 2 ??? is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901 it proved to be a show-stopper around the globe finally helping cement Rachmaninoff???s international reputation as a composer. To this day the concerto???s enchanting themes and elegiac melodies in the strings are considered the trademark of Rachmaninoff indeed of Russian music in general. For the first Urtext edition of this pivotal work we were able to examine the original autograph score in Moscow???s Glinka Museum. Rachmaninoff???s own sound recordings were also consulted. The newly prepared pianoreduction ensures good playability: it accords exactly with the also newly edited orchestral score and parts. Both of these are available from Breitkopf and H?rtel.

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.

Corelli Variations op. 42-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?.Thecomposer?s 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 see for yourself.

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.

Sonatas Op. 28 Op. 36-From an earlier Belwin Mills edition this is Volume 5 of a series of the piano works of the great Russian-American composer. Included are Rachmaninoff's Opus 28 and Opus 36 Sonatas. The Opus 28 in D-minor in three movements was completed in 1907 and was introduced in Dresden Germany. The Opus 36 in B-flat minor also in three movements was written and 1913 but was later revised by the composer.

The Joy Of Rachmaninoff is a collection of 17 original and newly-arranged music by the great Russian Romanticist.Pieces Include Preludes Op.23 Op.32 Morceaux de Fantasie Piano Sonata No.2 andmany more.

This authentic edition contains classic Piano works by Rachmaninoff with instructions and performance notes. Russian paintings from the period are featured on the cover.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 simplified to intermediate level by Allain Small.

Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini simplified to intermediate level by Sharon Aaronson.

Opus 32 Nr. 5-Sergei Rachmaninov?s second book of Préludes op. 32 was written in the summer of 1910 at his family?s idyllic country house in Ivanovka. This sleepy rural area inspired the composer to this wonderful Impressionistic G-majorPrélude. It is not very difficult and is thus also suitable for advanced amateur pianists. Thanks to the cooperation of the Glinka Archive in Moscow all the autograph sources were consulted for this Henle Urtext edition of thePréludes. As in all of our Rachmaninov editions the fingerings are by Marc-André Hamelin.