Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions / Corelli Variations

Released: May, 2004

Record label: Harmonia Mundi

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Soloist: Olga Kern, piano

Program:

• Suite from the Violin Partita in E major: Prelude, Gavotte & Gigue, transcription for piano after J. S. Bach, TN iii/1 – Preludio, Gavotte, Gigue
• Transcription of Schubert’s ‘Wohin?’ from ‘Die Schöne Müllerin’ for piano, TN iii/10
• Lilacs, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/5
• Transcription of Mendelssohn’s ‘Scherzo’ from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for piano, TN iii/7
• Daisies, song for voice & piano, Op. 38/3
• Transcription of Kreisler’s ‘Liebesleid’ for piano, TN iii/5
• Transcription of Kreisler’s ‘Liebesfreud’ for piano, TNiii/5
• Transcription of Bizet’s ‘Minuet’ from ‘L’Arlesienne-Suite No 1’ for piano, TN iii/3
• Transcription of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Lullaby for piano, Op.16/1,’ TN iii/14
• Transcription of Mussorgsky’s ‘Hopak’ from opera ‘Sorochintsy Fair’ for piano (also for piano & violin), TN iii/8
• Transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ from ‘The Tale of the Tsar Saltan’ for piano, TN iii/9
• Hungarian Rhapsody, for piano No. 2 (the ‘original’ No. 2) in C sharp minor (I & II), S. 244/2 (LW A132/2)
• Variations on a Theme of Corelli, for piano, Op. 42

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