COMPLETE SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO
BY SERGE RACHMANINOFF

PAGES: 272
PUBLISHER: DOVER PUBLICATIONS
SERIES: DOVER SONG COLLECTIONS
PUBLICATION DATE: 17TH FEBRUARY 1998
TRIM SIZE: 9.25 X 12.2 IN
FORMAT: PAPERBACK
BISACS:
MUSIC / PRINTED MUSIC / OPERA & CLASSICAL SCORES
MUSIC / PRINTED MUSIC / VOCAL
MUSIC / GENRES & STYLES / CLASSICAL

DESCRIPTION:
-ONE OF THE LEGENDARY PIANISTS OF HIS DAY, SERGE RACHMANINOFF (1873–1943) HAS TAKEN HIS PLACE IN MUSIC HISTORY AS A COMPOSER OF DISTINCTION — A COMMANDING FIGURE IN LATE RUSSIAN ROMANTICISM WHOSE APPEALING WORKS ARE KNOWN WORLDWIDE FOR THEIR INTENSE LYRICISM AND DYNAMIC VIVACITY.

-THIS COMPLETE COLLECTION OF RACHMANINOFF`S SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO COMPRISES ALL OF THE MUSIC OPP. 4, 8, 14, 21, 26, 34, AND 38 — SEVENTY-ONE SONGS IN A VARIETY OF VOCAL RANGES, CONTAINING SOME OF THE MOST HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES IN THE LITERATURE. THE TEXT UNDERLAY FOR MOST OF THE SONGS IS IN RUSSIAN (CYRILLIC) AND ENGLISH; ONE IS GIVEN WITH RUSSIAN, GERMAN, AND FRENCH SINGING TEXTS; AND THE COMPLETE OP. 38 (SIX SONGS) IS PUBLISHED WITH SINGING TEXTS IN ALL FOUR LANGUAGES.

-BOLD IN HIS BROAD CHOICE OF POEMS TO SET TO MUSIC, RACHMANINOFF CHOSE THE WORDS OF NO LESS THAN 36 ESTEEMED POETS — FROM HIS FELLOW COUNTRYMEN CHEKHOV, PUSHKIN, AND TOLSTOY TO THE INTERNATIONAL WORKS OF GOETHE, HEINE, HUGO, AND SHELLEY. HERE, THE COMPOSER`S LYRICAL GIFTS ARE MATCHED AND SUPPORTED BY HIS EXTRAORDINARY SENSE OF THE KEYBOARD AS AN EQUAL PARTNER IN THE MAKING OF AN ART SONG.

-REPRINT OF S. RACHMANINOFF: SONGS WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT, A. GUTHEIL, MOSCOW, 1922 EDITION.