Rachmaninoff. Life, Works, Recordings

Winner of 2006 ARSC Award for excellence in historical recorded sound research (Best history in recorded classical music)

CONTENIDO:

Introduction

1. Before the Beginning
2. The family Breaks Up
3. Zveref and Moscow
4. Composition Starts
5. The Break with Zveref
6. To Ivanovka
7. More Compositions
8. Towards Graduation
9. Aleko and the Graduation
10. First Moves as "Free Artist"
11. More Productions and TchaikovskyŽs Death
12. The Long Road to Symphony No.1
13. A Symphony Misunderstood
14. London Visit, Moscow Cure
15. The Crimea, Italy, Concerto No.2
16. Composition Continues and There is a Merriage
17. Variations, Preludes, a Child is Born
18. Two Operas
19. An Abortive Revolution, the Operas Produced
20. Sonata, Symphony, Part of an Opera
21. "The Isle of the Dead" and Concerto No.3
22. America and the Liturgy
23. 1910, More Preludes, More Conducting
24. Études-Tableaux, Marietta Shaginian, More Songs
25. "The Bells" and the Last Sonata
26. World War I, All-Night Vigil, Last Songs
27. Final Music in Russia, Escape from Petrograd
28. The Expatriate Artist: First Concerts, First Recordings
29. Rachmaninoff Fully Established
30. Another Two Seasons, More Recordings
31. Concerto No.4, "Chansons Russes"
32. Rachmaninoff the Pianist
33. Clasic Recordings and Orchestration by Another
34. "Senar" and "LaFolia"
35. "Rapsodie" and Symphony
36. Four More Seasons, Major Recordings
37. Symphonic Dances
38. Last Recordings, a Final Tour
39. Envoi

Musical Examples
Chronological List of Works
Classified List of Works
Discography
Bibliography
Indexes