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Rachmaninov: Transcriptions
CDA66486

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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)

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