Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ12001
Composed
by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Book Only. Composed 1981.
4 pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ12001.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ12001).
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,
Zoltán Kocsis.
Vocalise op. 34
