While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

* " Azrael Revisited ", quoting Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor, credited, and Lennie Tristano's Turkish Mambo, uncredited.

As well as Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 which recurs throughout the film, there is a scene in a tea room where a salon orchestra plays the Spanish Dance No 5 ( Bolero ) by Moritz Moszkowski.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances ( 1940 )

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Bells ( 1913 ) ( 4th movement )

Among later Russian symphonic poems, Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Rock shows as much the influence of Tchaikovsky's work as Isle of the Dead ( 1909 ) does its independence from it.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's fellow piano student Matvey Pressman adds, He enthralled you by his power, and he captivated you by the elegance and grace of his playing, by his tempestuous, fiery temperament and by his warmth and charm.

* October 27 – First complete performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2

* March 27 – The première of Sergei Rachmaninoff's First Symphony is a complete disaster, leaving many wondering whether Alexander Glazunov, the conductor for the event, was drunk or just disliked the music so much that he did not care about a good performance.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's Elegiac Trios No. 1 in G minor and No. 2 in D minor

Other important études of this period include Heitor Villa-Lobos ' virtuoso 12 Études for guitar ( 1929 ) and pieces by Russian composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux ( 1911, 1917 ) and several collections by Alexander Scriabin ( all for piano ).

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's set of variations on a theme by Niccolò Paganini are so free in structure that the composer called them a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Svetlanov was also an extremely fine pianist, two notable recordings being Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, and a disc of Nikolai Medtner's piano music.

Thanks to Sergei Rachmaninoff's help, Tchaikovsky's publisher Pyotr Jurgensen bought three Kalinnikov songs for 120 rubles, and later the Symphony No. 2 in A major.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's only comment after hearing the American premiere on the radio was a grim " Well, and now let's have some tea.

In 1984 he sang in the world premiere of Act I of Sergei Rachmaninoff's opera Monna Vanna, which had been left in piano score by the composer and orchestrated by Igor Buketoff.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3

* In Mark Robson's film Isle of the Dead ( 1945 ), Disney composer Leigh Harline's somber score makes use of Sergei Rachmaninoff's music.

The eighteenth variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini also runs throughout the film.

Written in memory of Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Trio élégiaque in D minor, opus 9 is a piano trio begun on 5 October and completed on 15 December 1893.

The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or the Second and Third Piano Concertos, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a new piece or to afford to obtain the rights for any of these existing pieces.

3, No. 2, is one of Sergei Rachmaninoff's most famous compositions.

** Jack Renner ( engineer ), Robert Shaw ( conductor ) & the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers

Sergei Vikulov, as the lone male, meets the competition well with some brilliant hits, but the work is designed to belong to the ladies.

The Untouchables finale shoot out in the train station is a clear borrow from the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin.

Marker begins the film with the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin, which Marker points out is a fictitious creation of Eisenstein which has still influenced the image of the historical event.

* 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

A deeply modernized version of the R-7 is still used as the launch vehicle for the Soviet / Russian Soyuz spacecraft, marking more than 50 years of operational history of the original Sergei Korolyov's rocket design.

The PES is currently led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

One of these is the " Sino-Caucasian " hypothesis of Sergei Starostin, which posits that the Yeniseian languages and North Caucasian languages form a clade with Sino-Tibetan.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 ) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer ( there is a crater on the lunar far side which bears his name ).

is: Sergei Eisenstein

Waterloo () is a 1970 Soviet-Italian film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis.

* May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris ; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.

** In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev ( it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder ).

Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius ' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartan — originally op.

The word sinfonietta came into use to designate a work that is shorter, of more modest aims, or " lighter " than a symphony, such as Sergei Prokofiev's Sinfonietta ( Kennedy 2006 ; Temperley 2001 ).

She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.

This set of recordings has never been out of print, and is considered by many to be the touchstone of Beethoven sonata interpretations, though shortcomings in finger technique mar many performances of fast movements ( Sergei Rachmaninoff is supposed to have referred to him as " the great adagio pianist ").

Karloff is also heard as the narrator of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra under Mario Rossi.

Battleship Potemkin (, ), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.

Alto clef written at sounding pitch is occasionally found, even in as late a composer as Sergei Prokofiev.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Augustus Sergei Darius Keppel, Viscount Bury ( b. 2003 )