Piano (PIANO SOLO) SKU: HL.51481206
Piano Solo. Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Edited by Norbert Gertsch. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. G. Henle #HN1206. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481206). UPC: 888680012991. 9.0x12.0x0.147 inches.
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 manâ€. The composerÂ’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 themeâ€. Did Rachmaninoff succeed in silencing “la folia†– i.e. the “madnessâ€? Why not seefor yourself!
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