Piano
SKU:
HL.44000922
Composed
by Vasilyevich Sergey
Rachmaninov. 20th
Century. De Haske Fanfare
Band CD. CD. Op. 34, no
14. Editio Musica
Budapest #12001.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(HL.44000922).
ISBN
9790080120019. UPC:
073999825220. Bach (23 x
30,2 cm) inches.
Vasilyevich Sergey
Rachmaninov; Zoltan
Kocsis.
Vocalise,
for soprano (or tenor)
voice with piano
accompaniment, came into
being in 1910 as the
final piece in
Rachmaninov's Op. 34 song
series. Most of the songs
were tailored to suit the
personalities of various
outstanding Russian
singers (including
Chaliapin), and dedicated
to them. An interesting
feature of Vocalise,
which was written for the
soprano Antonina
Nezhdanova, is that, as
its title indicates, the
vocal solo has no text:
the performer can sing it
through on any one vowel
of her choice. This song
became one of the
composer's most popular
pieces, and countless
arrangements have been
made of it (for
orchestra, for various
chamber ensembles, for
violin, for cello, for
almost every kind of
brass instrument, for
clarinet, for guitar, for
harmonica, even for cello
orchestra!). One of the
most successful
transcriptions for solo
piano, first published in
1981, is the work of the
world-famous Hungarian
concert pianist,
conductor and composer,
Zoltan Kocsis.
