Piano/harpsichord and
orchestra (picc.2.2.cor
ang.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp
- perc(4) - hp - str)
SKU: BR.PB-15160
Urtext. Composed
by Sergej Rachmaninow.
Edited by Norbert
Gertsch. Orchestra;
Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Variations; Solo
concerto; Late-romantic;
Early modern. Sheet
Music. Duration 22'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
15160. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-15160).
ISBN
9790004215654. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Paganini's
Capricci served as
inspiration for many
composers. In addition to
Brahms, Schumann and
Liszt, Rachmaninoff was
also inspired by the
idea. His Rhapsody on a
Theme by Paganini has
since become one of his
best known and most
popular works and was an
immediate success. In
1934, between two intense
concert seasons,
Rachmaninoff took
advantage of the peace
and quiet at his villa on
Lake Lucerne to compose
the Variations.
Paganini's virtuosity and
joy of playing are
juxtaposed with the
Gregorian sequence Dies
irae. A symbol of the
evil spirit to which
Paganini sold his soul?
At least that is how
Rachmaninoff wrote it in
a letter to the
choreographer Fokine. For
the demanding piano part,
the composer and
celebrated pianist
himself had to start
practicing very early:
The composition is very
difficult, and I should
really start practicing
now, but I get lazier
with my finger exercises
year after year.The
editor, Norbert Gertsch,
presents with this
edition for the first
time an Urtext edition of
the work that Joachim
Kaiser described as
Rachmaninoff's most
spiritual, witty, elegant
work for piano..
