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	Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rachmaninov's first symphony was premiered in 1897, but was a complete flop with the critics.
		Rachmaninov made his first recordings for Edison Records on their "Diamond Disc" records, as at the time the Edison company had the best audio fidelity in recording the piano.
		Rachmaninov was angered, left Edison, and thereafter recorded only for the Victor Talking Machine Company (and later its successor, RCA Victor), which was pleased to abide by Rachmaninoff's restrictions and proudly advertised him as one of the great artists who recorded for the Victor Company.
	usapedia.com /s/sergei-rachmaninov.html (705 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rachmaninov’s mother appealed to his cousin, the Liszt pupil and famous conductor-pedagogue Alexander Ziloti, to audition the young musician; Ziloti’s recommendation was the notoriously harsh regime of his own former teacher, Nikolay Zverev, at Moscow Conservatoire.
		Rachmaninov’s dissatisfaction with what he had achieved in his First Concerto was as nothing compared to the trauma that ensued from the 1897 premiere of his First Symphony, distorted as it was under the baton of a reportedly less than entirely sober Glazunov.
		Rachmaninov had composed some forty major works before leaving Russia for ever after the November 1917 Revolution; but he managed a mere half dozen in the twenty-six years from then until his death (and not one of these was completed during his first nine years abroad).
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67501-N.asp (5466 words)

	piano concerto no. 3 (rachmaninov) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 (colloquially known as The Rach 3) is famous for its technical and musical demands of the performer.
		Evgeny Kissin once said that Rachmaninov's talents were not "virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity"; instead, they were an incredible combination of passion and musicality.
		It was first performed on November 28, 1909 by the New York Symphony Society with Walter Damrosch conducting and Rachmaninov appearing as the guest artist on piano.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Piano_Concerto_No._3_(Rachmaninov).html (326 words)

	Rachmaninov - Shrinking the Score
		More mysterious still is the case of Sergei Rachmaninov who suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of 23 after the failure of his first symphony in St Petersburg on 15 March 1897.
		Rachmaninov was smitten by listlessness, unable to compose for the next three years.
		Rachmaninov was never more than a salon insurrectionist; he did not have much radical baggage to shed when he started to write family favourites.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/030416-NL-Rachmaninov.html (1044 words)

	Mikhail Pletnev
		Rachmaninov is one of my favorite composers and the Symphony no. 1 as well as The Isle of the Dead are among my favorite compositions.
		The symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead was composed in 1909 and inspired by Böcklin's painting of a solitary oarsman steering a body to its resting-place on an island in the middle of a lake.
		Rachmaninov's four Etudes-Tableaux are not as touching as they could be, but a testimony of Pletnev's cool organizing intelligence.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo12/pletnev.htm (2486 words)

	:: INKPOT: RACHMANINOV The Second Piano Concerto: An Inktroduction - INKPOT
		Rachmaninov's compositional skills came under severe criticism, and the strain of events plunged him into a deep and prolonged depression that included a near-total writer's block.
		These sessions, with Rachmaninov seated in a deep, comfortable armchair in the doctor's study, were concentrated on helping him sleep soundly and peacefully every night, brightening this daytime mood, improving his appetite and reawakening his desire to compose.
		Rachmaninov handles the relationship between piano and orchestra with great delicacy, allowing the piano to insert six notes of melody between the first two phrases of the clarinet, then reversing these roles by allowing the orchestra to comment between phrases of piano cantilena.
	inkpot.com /classical/rachpfc2.html (3302 words)

	INKPOT#106: RACHMANINOV plays Rachmaninov. Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy, Stokowski (Naxos) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A "Rachmaninov Cycle" mounted by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the end of 1939 finally persuaded RCA to take advantage of the situation by recording the composer as soloist with the Philadelphia in the First and Third Concertos, as well as conductor in his Third Symphony.
		Rachmaninov plays the Second Concerto with a clear sense of forward momentum, giving the music a compelling pulse even as it is allowed to unfold naturally.
		Throughout the work, Rachmaninov's combination of power, virtuosity, sensitivity and magical variety of touch are incredible to hear, as though the popular affirmation of the piece had revitalized his recreative powers as well as bolstered his confidence as a composer.
	inkpot.com /classical/rachplaysrachn.html (2289 words)

	The Rachmaninov Lover's Home Page
		In a while, Rachmaninov was able to transfer to the senior division of the Moscow Conservatory, taking more of his classes outside the Zverev household.
		Rachmaninov's characteristic melancholy, his dignified evocation of folk tune (or is it cathedral hymn?) in the simplest orchestral garb -- piano octaves, solo winds in the orchestra -- is immediately effective.
		The Faustian motto with which the sonata opens consists of two elements: the first starkly arches the interval of a fifth in quiet questioning; the second, marked forte, peremptorily dismisses the preceding phrase and emphatically asserts a perfect cadence.
	www.radix.net /~chinatom/rach.html (1567 words)

	Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances - A Good-Music-Guide Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his day Rachmaninov was most famous as a pianist, possible the most formidable pianist of his era.
		Rachmaninov was nearing the end of his life, in exile from his homeland.
		Rachmaninov wrote a two piano version of Symphonic Dances at the same time that he was orchestrating it.
	www.good-music-guide.com /reviews/061_rachmaninov_symphonic_dances.htm (758 words)

	soundgenerator.com \| Rachmaninov new discovery to go under the hammer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The newly-discovered manuscript of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony Op.27 is previously unrecorded and unknown to scholars, and is estimated to fetch £300,000 - £500,000.
		With the publication of the full score in August 1908, the manuscript would have ceased to be of such importance for Rachmaninov and he may well have given it away, as he did with the autograph score of the Third Piano Concerto a few years later.
		It is highly likely that Rachmaninov revised the orchestration in the light of the premiere in St Petersburg on January 26th, 1908 and the sequel in Moscow a few days later on Febraury 2nd - both performances which he conducted.
	www.soundgenerator.com /news/index.cfm?articleid=4374 (883 words)

	Piano Society - Rachmaninov Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rachmaninov withdrew the work, which was never again played in his lifetime.
		A few months later Rachmaninov began his 2nd piano concerto, which was a great success at its first production and has remained immensely and rightly popular.
		Rachmaninov was one of the greatest of pianists, as is proved by his recordings not only of his own concertos but of other composers’ music, including sonatas with the violinist Kreisler.
	www.pianosociety.com /index.php?id=118 (722 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Rachmaninov began to study piano with his mother at the age of four.
		While the Symphonic Dances of 1940 enjoy some popularity, as well as the symphonic poem "The Rock" and the dark-hued "Isle of the Dead", with its recurrent motif from the Latin Requiem Mass, the second of his three numbered symphonies is still more familiar.
		Rachmaninov's first real success came in 1892 with the Prelude in C sharp minor.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/rachmaninov.html (209 words)

	Biography of Sergei Rachmaninov - PianoParadise
		From 1921 Rachmaninov made his first recordings for Edison Records on their "Diamond Disc" records, as at the time the Edison company had the best audio fidelity in recording the piano.
		Rachmaninov was angered, left Edison, and thereafter recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company (and later its successor, RCA Victor), which was pleased to abide by Rachmaninov's restrictions and proudly advertised him as one of the great artists who recorded for the Victor Company.
		Rachmaninov also made numerous recordings on piano rolls, and was reported to have regarded these as the most accurate reflection of his playing.
	www.pianoparadise.com /rachmaninov.html (860 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov : The 24 Preludes
		Sergey Vassilievich Rachmaninov (the name might be spelled "Rachmaninoff" or "Rakhmaninov" was one of the great pianists of all time and the last great Russian Romantic composer.
		In 1888 Rachmaninov graduated to the senior department of the conservatory, studying harmony with Lyadov.
		Rachmaninov's rich-sounding Romantic style was a popular continuation of the tradition of Borodin and Tchaikovsky.
	ooz.tripod.com /cd/htm/9B09D70B2881E.htm (2138 words)

	RACHMANINOV Plays and conducts VISTA VERA [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thankfully Rachmaninov on disc is not really a study in frustration.
		The leonine aristocracy of Rachmaninov’s playing, the perception that this is playing unfettered by limitation either digital or technical, is present throughout these discs.
		Throughout his Chopin recordings one feels Rachmaninov’s articulation and rhythm as indissoluble components of his true greatness in the repertoire.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/July04/Rachmaninov_Vista_Vera.htm (1644 words)

	Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873 - 1943) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After study at the St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories, Sergey Rachmaninov embarked on a career in Russia as a composer, pianist and conductor.
		The second of Rachmaninov's four piano concertos holds an unchallenged position among romantic works in this form, its popularity closely rivalled by the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra.
		Rachmaninov's Prelude in C sharp minor won early popularity that largely outweighed its merits.
	www.naxos.com /composer/rachmani.htm (194 words)

	Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
		For Sergei Rachmaninov it was to provide the seed of his final, and most perfect, work for piano and orchestra.
		The choice was inspired; Rachmaninov, the greatest virtuoso of his own age, must have identified with Paganini, the most brilliant performer of his era – both men driven to the point of exhaustion by the demands of their own artistry, and both exiles.
		The Rhapsody was inspired by Paganini’s personality and playing, but Rachmaninov took his identification with the great violinist a step further, and while legend has it that Paganini was bound by a pact with the Devil, Rachmaninov’s rhapsody is stalked by his own personal spectre, the Dies Irae plainchant.
	www.classicalnotes.co.uk /notes/rachmaninov1.html (808 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Rachmaninov legal battle to go on
		The family of Rachmaninov say there is no evidence of the composer having sold the manuscript during his lifetime.
		He said it was possible that Rachmaninov had left the manuscript in Russia or Germany, and it was possible that it had been owned by a person who received it for safekeeping and intended to return it to the composer one day.
		This was based on evidence that Rachmaninov had written to his sister-in-law saying that the manuscript of the First Symphony was left in his desk in Russia and its safety had been entrusted to a housekeeper.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4308511.stm (330 words)

	Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil: Vespers
		Rachmaninov was not particularly religious and not intimately familiar with the liturgy and traditional musical settings of the church; thus, his compositional approach to the All-Night Vigil was fresh, innovative and unique.
		Like most composers of the New Russian Choral School, Rachmaninov employed a procedure known as "choral orchestration," calling on the singers to make use of a wide range of techniques: varieties of choral color, divisi passages, carefully placed articulations, and a vivid palette of controlled dynamic nuances.
		But for all of the compositional innovation and technical prowess evident in Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil, what leaves a lasting impression on the listener and performer is the intense expression with which Rachmaninov imbues the texts of the Vigil.
	www.seattlepromusica.org /Rachmaninovs_Vespers.htm (616 words)

	Rachmaninov Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Being the noted pianist that Rachmaninov was, the piano accompaniment clearly...
		1 and 2, Sergey Rachmaninov, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Krystian Zimerman.
		Rachmaninov handles the relationship between piano and orchestra with great...
	www.thepianoresource.com /5/rachmaninov-piano.html (386 words)

	Sergey Rachmaninov
		Rachmaninov's early musical life was quite brilliant; he won the great gold medal of the Moscow Conservatoire (only the third recipient in the Conservatoire's history), and was greatly encouraged by Tchaikovsky, in whose memory Rachmaninov composed his large-scale Trio élégiaque opus 9.
		By the age of 23, Rachmaninov had written his First Symphony but the first performance in 1897, conducted by Glazunov, was a disaster.
		However, by then the work had been given, on December 2nd in Moscow, performed by Rachmaninov and his friend Anatoly Brandukov, to whom the Sonata is dedicated.
	www.guildmusic.com /composer/rachmani.htm (244 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Sergei Rachmaninov
		Rachmaninov, Sergei (Vasilyevich) (b Semyonovo, Starorussky, 1873; d Beverly Hills, Calif., 1943).
		At this time he lost faith in his power of comp., but was helped by hypnosis treatment from Dr Nikolay Dahl, also an amateur musician, who had many talks on mus.
		Rachmaninov was one of the greatest of pianists, as is proved by his recordings not only of his own concs.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/rachmaninov.html (999 words)

	Andrys' Freddy Kempf Rachmaninov CD page
		The Rachmaninov studies were a case in point.
		He is equally impressive in the second set of Etudes-tableaux, jewels which it would be folly to describe as miniatures for they are so big in their challenges to the pianist and in their expressive scope.
		Rachmaninov composed two sets of fiendishly difficult Etudes Tableaux, the second of which, Op.39 from 1920, Kempf plays here.
	www.andrys.com /freddyk2.html (2843 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Rachmaninov Hough :: Classical Music
		This Rachmaninov cycle is nonetheless a most welcome addition to the CD catalogue (and also available on SACD too).
		Hough remarks in the booklet that some of the first records he ever got were Rachmaninov’s own recordings of all these works (now available on various reissues, not least Naxos Historical), and how amazed he was that other performances he heard were so different; slower and far less flexible than the composer’s own.
		The Fourth was not a success when first heard, one of Rachmaninov’s very few works from his period in exile, and was later cut, prior to Rachmaninov recording it in Philadelphia.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=2176 (1000 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov
		Rachmaninov was undoubtedly one of this century’s greatest pianists, his performances legendary.
		Rachmaninov felt that his American audiences had a short attention span (he was not wrong) and advised against playing anything longer than 17 minutes in duration.
		It was also in the seventies that the late British pianist John Ogden revived Rachmaninov’s two large Piano Sonatas Op.28 and Op.36, and it has been in Britain, not in America, his adopted home, that a reevaluation of Rachmaninov the composer has taken place.
	www.fuguemasters.com /rachmani.html (2028 words)

	Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos
		From these we have pieced together an ‘ideal’ performance — free of coughs, noises and the few musical mishaps which occurred, but still capturing the excitement of what was, by common consent, a sensational series of concerts.
		These days a new recording of the Rachmaninov concertos has to be very special for it to be worth doing at all and it was not lightly that Hyperion proceeded with this project.
		The recordings capture the excitement of the live concerts, including applause at the end of the concertos but there's very little audience noise and the sound is thrilling and immediate.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67501.asp (979 words)

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