Rachmaninoff: life, works, recordings by Max Harrison [print] Table of Contents: Before the beginning / The family breaks up / Zveref and Moscow / Composition starts / The break with Zveref / To Ivanovka / More compositions / Towards graduation / Aleko and the graduation / First moves as 'free artist' / More productions and Tchaikovsky's death / The long road to Symphony No. 1 / A symphony misunderstood / London visit, Moscow cure / The Crimea, Italy, Concerto No. 2 / Composition continues and there is a marriage / Variations, preludes, a child is born / Two operas / An abortive revolution, the operas produced / Sonata, symphony, part of an opera / The isle of the dead and Concerto No. 3 / American and the liturgy / 1910, more preludes, more conducting / Études-tableaux, Marietta Shaginian, more songs / The bells and a last sonata / World War I, all-night vigil, last songs / Final music in Russia, escape from Petrograd / The expatriate artist: first concerts, first recordings / Rachmaninoff fully established / Another two seasons, more recordings / Concerto No. 4, Chansons Russes / Rachmaninoff the pianist / Classic recordings and orchestration by another / Senar and LaFolia / Rapsodie and symphony / Four more seasons, major recordings / Symphonic dances / Last recordings, a final tour / Envoi.Call Number: ML410.R12 H37 2005
ISBN: 0826453449
Publication Date: 2005-07-19