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.
Rachmaninof
f 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
“madness�
Why not seefor
yourself!
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