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- Rachmaninoff composed his version of the all-night vigil in 1915, after his Second and Third Piano Concertos and the Second Symphony had brought him international recognition. Rachmaninoff's “All-Night Vigil” consists of 15 movements, nine of which are based on traditional Eastern Orthodox church chants that come from Greece, Kiev, and Russia.
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No. 2, in B ♭ major; No. 3, in D minor; No. 4, in D major; No. 5, in G minor; No. 6, in E ♭ major; No. 7, in C minor; No. 8, in A ♭ major; No. 9, in E ♭ minor; No. 10, in G ♭ major; 1903 Prelude in G minor (Op. 23, No. 5) embodies his Russian spirit. 28: Piano Sonata No. 1: 1908 32: Thirteen Preludes. No. 1, in C major; No. 2, in B ...
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Rachmaninoff was born in Semyonovo, near Novgorod in north-western Russia, into a noble family which had been attested in the service of Russian tsars since the sixteenth century. His father, an army officer and his mother, an heiress, were both amateur pianists, and he had his first piano lessons with his mother at their family estate at Oneg. His parents soon noticed his outstanding talent on the piano. Because of financial difficulties due to his father's gambling, squandering the family f...
Initial setbacks
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 (Op. 13, 1896) premiered on March 27, 1897, but was torn apart by critics (including a particularly vitriolic review by Cesar Cui, who likened it to a depiction of the seven plagues of Egypt, written for a conservatory in hell). Some have suggested that this was largely due to the conducting of Alexander Glazunov, who disliked the piece and under-rehearsed it; Rachmaninoff's wife later suggested that Glazunov may have been drunk. This disastrous reception, couple...
Immigration to the US
Rachmaninoff made his first tour of the United States as a pianist in 1909, an event for which he composed the Piano Concerto No. 3 (Op. 30, 1909). This successful tour made him a popular figure in America, and he emigrated to New York following the Russian Revolution of 1917. After his departure his music was banned in the Soviet Union for several years. His compositional output slowed to some degree, partly because he was required to spend much of his time performing to support his family,...
Rachmaninoff wrote five works for piano and orchestra: 4 concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Of the concertos, which Rachmaninoff considered as "piano symphonies," the Second and Third are the most popular, and are considered to be in the upper echelon of the virtuoso Romantic piano concerto literature. The Third, in particular, has ...
Rachmaninoff's style is fundamentally Russian: his music shows the influence of the idol of his youth, Tchaikovsky. His harmonic language appeared to expand above and beyond that of Tchaikovsky, and his pianistic stylistics made his piano works very difficult to perform, due to a high level of the mastery of many grand and virtuosic techniques. Per...
Rachmaninoff made his first recordings for Edison Records on their "Diamond Disc" records, since they claimed the best audio fidelity in recording the pianoat the time. Rachmaninoff did not consider himself a great pianist and believed his own performances to be variable in quality; he therefore requested to personally approve any recorded performa...
Rachmaninoff's music has been used often in films, especially themes from his second and third piano concertos, and the eighteenth variation of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 1. The soundtrack of the 1945 film Brief Encounterprominently features the second piano concerto, as interpreted by Eileen Joyce. 2. In the 1955 comedy The Seven Year It...
Bertensson, Sergei, and Jay Leyda. Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music. Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0253214218Harrison, Max. Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings. Bloomsbury Academic, 2006. ISBN 978-0826493125Raines, Mary Elizabeth. Marilyn Monroe, Rachmaninoff, and...HYPNOSIS? Academy for Professional Hypnosis Training, 2010. ASIN B0037HOL0IWehrmeyer, Andreas. Rakhmaninov. Haus Publishing, 2005. ISBN 978-1904341505All links retrieved January 26, 2023. 1. Rachmaninoff Society 2. Sergei Rachmaninoffat MusicBrainz 3. Sergei Rachmaninoff IMDb 4. Sergei Rachmaninoff Steinway & Sons
Apr 19, 2024 · The one notable composition of Rachmaninoff’s second period of residence in Moscow was his choral symphony The Bells (1913), based on Konstantin Balmont’s Russian translation of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. This work displays considerable ingenuity in the coupling of choral and orchestral resources to produce striking imitative and textural ...
Rachmaninoff wrote two major a cappella choral works—the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and the All-Night Vigil (also known as the Vespers). Other choral works include a choral symphony, The Bells , the Spring Cantata , the Three Russian Songs and an early Concerto for Choir (a cappella).
Nov 17, 2020 · Rachmaninoff composed his version of the all-night vigil in 1915, after his Second and Third Piano Concertos and the Second Symphony had brought him international recognition. Rachmaninoff's “All-Night Vigil” consists of 15 movements, nine of which are based on traditional Eastern Orthodox church chants that come from Greece, Kiev, and Russia.
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Jun 25, 2022 · Composed between 1906-1907, and premiered in 1908, the symphony was the Russian composer’s second attempt at writing for a full orchestra. Although now Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony is popular in concert halls, it was rather surprising that it was even composed.
In Sergey Rachmaninoff: Major creative activity …Moscow was his choral symphony The Bells (1913), based on Konstantin Balmont’s Russian translation of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. This work displays considerable ingenuity in the coupling of choral and orchestral resources to produce striking imitative and textural effects.
