Rachmaninov: The Transcriptions

CDA66486

Recording details: February 1991
St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Stephen Johns
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1991
Total duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'A true keyboard aristocrat' (Gramophone)

'Rachmaninov's mix of Slavonic wit and melancholy is caught to perfection' (Gramophone)

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

The Transcriptions

Howard Shelley (piano)

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	MP3	FLAC	ALAC
1	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	The flight of the bumblebee (Transcription from Skazka o Tsare Saltane 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan') [1'12] Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Liebeslied [4'10] Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
3	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Minuet (Transcription from L'arlésienne suite No 1) [2'52] Georges Bizet (1838-1875), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
4	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Wohin? (No 2 of Die schöne Müllerin, D795) [2'36] Franz Schubert (1797-1828), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
5	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Hopak (Transcription from Sorochinskaya yarmarka 'Sorotchinsky fair') [1'41] Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
				Partita No 3 in E major BWV1006 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
6	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Movement 1: Prelude [3'33]
7	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Movement 3: Gavotte [2'40]
8	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Movement 6: Gigue [1'43]
9	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Margaritki 'Daisies' (No 3 of Six Romances, Op 38) [2'12]
10	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Scherzo (Transcription from Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op 21) [4'18] Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
11	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Siren' 'Lilacs' (No 5 of Songs, Op 21) [2'27]
12	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Polka de V R (Transcription from Lachtauben 'The little laughing dove') [4'02] Franz Behr (1837-1898), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
13	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Kolïbel'naya pesnya 'Cradle song' (No 1 of Shest Romansov 'Six Romances', Op 16) [4'05] Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
14	£0.85	£0.85	£0.85	Liebesfreud [6'55] Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
15	£0.85	£0.85	£0.85	Vocalise (No 14 of Songs, Op 34) [6'41] arr. Zoltán Kocsis (b1952)

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