Sergei Rachmaninoff
Composer
RCA Records...of them. In 1973, when the company decided to release all of Rachmaninoff's recordings on LPs (to celebrate the centennial of the composer's birth), RCA was forced to go to record collectors for materials, as documented by Time. In the... In this article: RCA, RCA Records, Kenny Rogers, Arturo Toscanini, EMI, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Trademark, Nipper, Bertelsmann, and BMG |
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Vronsky & Babin
...that took them all over the world. Vronsky & Babin were introduced to American audiences through their recordings of the piano music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who became their friend and mentor. Their recordings were issued by RCA Victor...
In this article: Vronsky & Babin, World War II, Artur Schnabel, Kiev Conservatory, University of New Mexico, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Decca
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Alexander Brailowsky
...for RCA Victor and finally in the 1960s, for CBS. Besides his huge output of Chopin, he also included in his repertoire Rachmaninoff , Saint-Saens , Liszt , Debussy and others. Brailowsky gave the first complete Chopin cycle in...
In this article: Alexander Brailowsky, Frederic Chopin, Paris, Brussels, New York, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, RCA Victor, and HMV
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
...Company in 1920 and with its successor, RCA Victor . The company was pleased to comply with Rachmaninoff's restrictions, and proudly advertised him as one of their great recording artists. His recordings for Victor continued until 1942, when...
In this article: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Zverev, Alexander Siloti, Alexander Scriabin, Eugene Ormandy, Anton Rubinstein, and C Sharp
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Byron Janis
...of the Philips Great Pianists series. His discography covers repertoire from Beethoven to David Guion and includes renditions of major piano concertos from Mozart to Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev . His pianism has been described as combining...
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RCA Victrola
...by Edison and RCA Victor. (In 1973, when the Rachmaninoff albums were released, RCA reported that it had frequently utilized record collectors to provide vintage recordings because its own archives are incomplete.) One of the more impressive,...
In this article: RCA Victrola, RCA, RCA Victor, Arturo Toscanini, Enrico Caruso, Leopold Stokowski, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, and Philadelphia Orchestra
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romanticism in classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom which included a pronounced lyricism, expressive breadth, structural ingenuity and a tonal palette of rich, distinctive orchestral colors.
The piano figures prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, either as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble. He made it a point, however, to use his own skills as a performer to explore fully the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Even in his earliest works, he revealed a sure grasp of idiomatic piano writing and a striking gift for melody.
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