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.

* 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

( Sergei Rachmaninoff's " Vespers " is really a setting of the Eastern Orthodox all-night vigil.

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.

In 1930 the esteemed Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein went to the United States with fellow director Grigori Aleksandrov to study Hollywood ’ s filmmaking process.

At school with his fellow students however, Sergei would join the military to serve the revolution, which would divide him from his father.

On April 15, 2005, Phillips, along with his fellow crew-members Sergei Krikalev, and Roberto Vittori launched to the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-6.

He launched to the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-04M on May 15, 2012, along with fellow crew members Sergei Revin and Joseph Acaba and arrived at the space station on May 17 at 4: 36 UTC.

He was also part of the unit known as " The Russian Five ," which consisted of him and fellow defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov, and forwards Igor Larionov, Sergei Fedorov, and Vyacheslav Kozlov.

The fifth crew to live aboard the International Space Station was led by Russian Valery Korzun and joined by fellow Cosmonaut Sergei Treshchev and U. S. Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, both flight engineers.

He and his fellow crew members, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, arrived and docked with the space station two days after launch, on May 17 at 4: 36 UTC.

The Mars I spacecraft is commanded by Luke Graham ( Don Cheadle ) with fellow astronauts Nicholas Willis ( Kavan Smith ), Sergei Kirov ( Peter Outerbridge ), and Renée Coté ( Jill Teed ).

He was suspended for three games in January 2009 for shoving an official during an altercation with his fellow Belarusian countryman Sergei Kostitsyn of the Montreal Canadiens, with whom he has maintained an ongoing feud dating back to his time with the Canadiens.

* 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

In 1902, Prokofiev's mother met Sergei Taneyev, director of the Moscow Conservatory, who initially suggested that Prokofiev should start lessons in piano and composition with Alexander Goldenweiser.

* Visions fugitives, a series of short piano works by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev

But Grieg-inspired Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote 4 piano concertos between 1891 and 1926.

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 ).

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

Steinway Artist Sergei Rachmaninoff at a Steinway grand piano

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.

His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

One of de Waart's sets of digital recordings was devoted to the four piano concertos of Sergei Rachmaninoff, featuring pianist Zoltán Kocsis.

Sergei Rachmaninoff first attended Rubinstein's historical concerts as a twelve-year-old piano student.

The MSO won Grammy awards in 1996 for their recording of Hector Berlioz ' Les Troyens and in 2000 for Sergei Prokofiev and Béla Bartók piano concerti with Martha Argerich on EMI, and additionally it has also won a number of Juno Awards and Felix Awards.

* Sergei Prokofiev-Five Songs without Words ( for voice and piano )

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

He studied the piano from an early age, taking lessons with Nikolai Zverev, a strict disciplinarian, who was teaching Sergei Rachmaninoff and a number of other prodigies at the same time, though Scriabin was not a pensionaire like Rachmaninoff.

He was educated at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, where he studied piano with Felix Blumenfeld, teacher of Vladimir Horowitz, and harmony and counterpoint with Alexander Glazunov, mentor to Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.

He learned to play piano pieces by composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff and Maurice Ravel and recalls hearing The Planets by Gustav Holst when he was very young.

* The fourth of Sergei Prokofiev's twelve easy pieces for piano — Musique d ' Enfants, Op.

Numbers are given according to the original Russian and French titles of the first edition score ( 1892 ), the piano reduction score by Sergei Taneyev ( 1892 ), both published by P. Jurgenson in Moscow, and the Soviet collected edition of the composer's works, as reprinted Melville, New York: Belwin Mills

In 1914, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed a work for voice and piano based on Nina Meshcherskaya's adaptation of the tale and, in 1932, arranged the work for voice and orchestra.