The 2005 recording of the four Rachmaninoff piano concerti and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Stephen Hough during live performances has been compared to the recordings by the composer himself.

In 1939, Michel Fokine wrote to Rachmaninoff from Auckland, New Zealand, where he was touring, seeking the composer's approval to use Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for his ballet Paganini, which he had almost finished choreographing.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.

He has since released several recordings, including works of Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jean-Philippe Rameau, John Adams, Igor Stravinsky, and Alexander Scriabin, as well as a recording of Rhapsody in Blue with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

23 ; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.

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.

* Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 ; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ; with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Many have noted Rachmaninoff's inspiration from George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, a piece for piano and orchestra completed in 1924, only three years before Rachmaninoff finished his own.

Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.

Arriving in San Francisco after having been released from questioning by immigration officials on Angel Island on 11 August 1918, Prokofiev was soon compared to other famous Russian exiles ( such as Sergei Rachmaninoff ), and he started out successfully with a solo concert in New York, leading to several further engagements.

Image: Rachmaninoff-Chopin Waltz E flat major-Steinway grand piano. ogg | Sergei Rachmaninoff performing on a Steinway grand piano waltz in E flat major, Op.

Martyn also maintains that Rachmaninoff may have based his interpretation of the Chopin sonata on Rubinstein's traversal, pointing out similarities between written accounts of Rubinstein's version and Rachmaninoff's audio recording of the work.

Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the solo piano part at the piece's premiere at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 7, 1934 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

Rachmaninoff, Stokowski, and the Philadelphia Orchestra made the first recording, on December 24, 1934, at RCA Victor's Trinity Church Studio in Camden, New Jersey.

In 1965, the musical Anya, based on Guy Bolton's play and using the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, opened on Broadway starring Constance Towers as Anya and Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress — it was not successful.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873-1943 — Moiseiwitsch writes on the late Sergei Rachmaninoff in a May 1943 article of Gramophone

In 1984, the A & E Network broadcast a series of three programs entitled Bolet Meets Rachmaninoff, in which the pianist was shown giving masterclasses on the subject of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3.

* Rachmaninoff, Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op.

30, composed in 1909 by Sergei Rachmaninoff ( colloquially known as " Rach 3 ") is famous for its technical and musical demands on the performer.

Pletnev's greatest musical hero is Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose performance style-both at the piano and on the podium-he consciously emulates.

* Simon Barere's Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Balakirev, Chopin on Remington Records.

Commenting on Hofmann's sharp decline, Sergei Rachmaninoff said, " Hofmann is still sky high ... the greatest pianist alive if he is sober and in form.

Sergei Rachmaninoff commented that " There are only two things which I took with me on my way to America ... my wife and my precious Blüthner ".

Robert Rimm's The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and the Eight ( ISBN 1-57467-072-7 ) contains a chapter on Medtner and Rachmaninoff.

On Sept. 3, 2008, Bronfman performed Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas at the Opening Gala of the San Francisco Symphony, and on Sept. 28 and 29 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. David Robertson.

43, (, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini ) is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1, Op.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff, wrote a prelude, Op.

* Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op.

* Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op.

His first studio recording, in 1988 for RCA Red Seal, was of Rachmaninoff ’ s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Gergiev / London Symphony Orchestra, and six Etudes-Tableaux, Op.

Rachmaninoff utilized siciliana style and rhythms in three of his Op.

The Homecoming (" Die Heimkehr ") Rachmaninoff was also inspired by Böcklin's painting Die Heimkehr (" The Homecoming " or " The Return ") when writing his Prelude in B minor, Op.

Sergei Rachmaninoff ( 1873 – 1943 ) composed a choral symphony The Bells, Op.

It is in that spirit that I play tonight .” The program was similar to that of her debut in 1976 and included works by Robert Schumann, Beethoven, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Ravel, with Chopin's Waltz Op.

Recital ; Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.

2, No. 1 ; Rachmaninoff, Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op.

* Rachmaninoff: Selections from Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op.

* Rachmaninoff: Moment musical, Op.

In turn, the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff made use of Boecklin's painting for his Op.

Rachmaninoff had already been making a more extensive use of short thematic motifs and strong rhythmic patterns in his Op.