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.

Rachmaninoff himself recognized the appeal of this variation, saying " This one, is for my agent.

Amongst his best-known recordings are the piano concerti of Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann with conductor Herbert von Karajan ; the Brahms concerti with Leonard Bernstein, the piano concerti of Frédéric Chopin, one recording conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini and a later one conducted by himself at the keyboard ; the Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos of Beethoven under Bernstein ( Zimerman himself led the accompaniment of the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard in Beethoven's First and Second Concertos ); the first and second piano concerti of Rachmaninoff ; the piano concerti of Franz Liszt with Seiji Ozawa, the piano concerti of Maurice Ravel with Pierre Boulez, and solo piano works by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy and Franz Schubert.

The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a piece.

It was first performed in Moscow on 31 January 1894 with Rachmaninoff himself playing the piano part.

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, who was 6 ' 4 " tall with correspondingly large hands, had composed many of his works for himself.

Stevens himself has noted the influence of composers Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Edvard Grieg ; along with contemporary composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.

The first performance was on 24 January ( old calendar, 11 January ), 1906 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with the composer himself conducting, in a double-bill performance with another Rachmaninoff opera written contemporaneously, The Miserly Knight.

The first performance was on January 24 ( old calendar, 11 January ), 1906 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with the composer himself conducting, in a double-bill performance with another Rachmaninoff opera written contemporaneously, Francesca da Rimini.

The performance was a complete failure ; Rachmaninoff himself left in agony before it was over.

Tenor John McCormack remembered Rachmaninoff himself playing jazz for his own amusement.

Rachmaninoff himself may simply have not fathomed the true nature of this composition, especially when it was first performed.

She is particularly noted for her recordings of Ravel, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Debussy.

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.

Rachmaninoff biographer Barrie Martyn suggests that it might not have been by chance that the two pieces Rachmaninoff singled out for praise from Rubinstein's concerts — Beethoven's Appassionata and Chopin's " Funeral March " Sonata — both became cornerstones of Rachmaninoff's own recital programs.

By his own admission, Sergei Rachmaninoff, in his 40s, prepared for a career as a concert pianist by practicing over 15 hours a day with the goal of attaining the level of Hofmann's technique.

After hearing a performance of Chopin's B minor Sonata by Hofmann, Rachmaninoff cut that piece from his own repertoire saying " not since Anton Rubinstein have I heard such titanic playing ".

Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship, including how to analyze a music score, and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles but also all the other roles in the operas in which he was slated to appear.

Scharwenka's own compositions include an opera ( Mataswintha ), a symphony, four piano concertos, chamber music ( all with piano part ) and numerous piano pieces ; his piano idiom somewhat resembles Schumann and Rachmaninoff.

Dedicated to Rachmaninoff, who dedicated his own Fourth Concerto to Medtner.

Carmen first composed the song's interlude, then took the verse from Rachmaninoff and the chorus from his own " Let's Pretend ".

10, 1894 ), that Rachmaninoff places specific qualities of his own playing into his music.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, whose own musical preferences in the later years of his career were not overly progressive, may have sounded an advance warning on hearing the symphony in rehearsal when he told Rachmaninoff, " Forgive me, but I do not find this music at all agreeable.

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar ( a violin concerto and a cello concerto ), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner ( four and three piano concertos, respectively ), Jean Sibelius ( a violin concerto ), Frederick Delius ( a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski ( two violin concertos and a " Symphonie Concertante " for piano ), and Richard Strauss ( two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote — a tone poem which features the cello as a soloist — and among later works, an oboe concerto ).

Notable artistes who appeared during this time were Fritz Kreisler, and Rachmaninoff, the latter playing his Third Piano Concerto and conducting other works at a concert in 1911.

He has also cited as influences the works of the Russian romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, particularly his four piano concertos.

She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Guastavino's musical style marked a stark contrast with the works of his 20th-century Argentine contemporaries such as Alberto Ginastera and reveals the influence of European composers such as Albéniz, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Chabrier, Falla, Debussy, and Ravel, but also is clearly inherited from the luminaries of 19th-century Argentine nationalist composers, such as Alberto Williams, Ernesto Drangosch, Francisco Hargreaves, Eduardo García Mansilla and Julián Aguirre.

Moiseiwitsch was particularly known for his interpretations of the late Romantic repertoire, especially the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff ( who was an admirer of his playing and referred to Moiseiwitsch as his " spiritual heir ").

He has also recorded the complete Rachmaninoff Concertos and major solo piano works for Nimbus Records.

He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic repertoire, particularly Frédéric Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt.

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.

At age twelve he gave his first major recital in Moscow, in a concert of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Liszt, Debussy, and Shostakovich at the Philharmonic Society.

He enjoyed fully using his vast talents, for example wanting to record the complete works for piano of Rachmaninoff ( which constitute about 6-full length CDs ).

* Shura Cherkassky ( 1909 – 1995 ): Solo piano works by Chopin, Mussorgsky, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt, Stravinsky, Grieg and Rachmaninoff ( 6CD Set ) ( NI 1733 )

* Shura Cherkassky ( 1909 – 1995 ): Solo piano works by Chopin, Mussorgsky, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt, Stravinsky, Grieg and Rachmaninoff ( 7CD Set ) ( NI 1748 )

In addition to his " administrative " duties at London Records he also served as a classical artist orchestrating and conducting a number of classical albums including the works of Puccini, Verdi, Bach, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.

She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “ Concerts with Commentary ”.

She took a teaching job at Yale University and accepted the invitation of Thomas Z. Shepard from CBS Masterworks, who was impressed by the Scriabin recordings, to record the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff.

In 1981 she made her solo recital debut in Carnegie Hall with a program entitled “ Homage to Rachmaninoff ” which included works by Chopin, Beethoven and Scriabin.

The series included works from Brahms, Chopin, Dvořák, Fauré, Franck, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Clara and Robert Schumann, Scriabin and Tchaikovsky, which she discussed before the performances with great engagement.

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.

From 1974 to 1981 followed Rachmaninoff's complete solo piano works on seven LPs for CBS Masterworks ( reissued in 1993 by Sony Classical on five CDs ), a project no pianist before had ever dared to undertake ( at the same time the German-American pianist Michael Ponti also recorded the Scriabin and Rachmaninoff works ).

At this time she was a relative rarity as a female piano soloist, particularly in the technically demanding and muscular works of Rachmaninoff.