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

( 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.

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.

However, the leadership was not opening up ; Kamenev and Zinoviev were arrested in 1932 ( or in the beginning of 1933 ), and set free in 1934, and than rearrested in 1935, accused of being part of an assassination plot which killed Sergei Kirov.

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 ").

This hypothesis has perhaps been best illustrated by Sergei A. Starostin and Sergei Nikolayev, who present a set of phonological correspondences and shared morphological structure.

* Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch, set in Moscow.

The novel The Fiery Angel ( 1908 ) by Valery Bryusov ( on which Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel is based ), set in the sixteenth century, features a visit paid to Agrippa by the protagonist Ruprecht who is seeking advice on the occult.

Following the example of Sergei Prokoviev in " Peter and the Wolf " ( 1936 ), Vincent Persichetti set six for narrator and orchestra in his " Fables " ( Op.

During one of the crossings, a storm forced them to anchor in the French Riviera where Alexeieff jumped ship holding on to a letter of recommendation to the Russian set designer Sergei Soudeikin who was living in Paris.

Wittgenstein later commissioned works for the left hand from other composers including Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofiev, and Franz Schmidt ( the finale of Schmidt's A major Clarinet Quintet-the last of his Wittgenstein commissions-is a set of variations on a theme by Labor from Labor's own clarinet and piano quintet, his opus 11 published in 1901 ).

The version below is the one set by Sergei Vasil ' yevich Rachmaninov.

He joined the Symbolist movement, and, in association with Sergei Polyakov, set up the publishing house Scorpio, which published the chief Russian Symbolist magazines such as Vesy and Severnyie Tzvety as well as collections of the greatest Russian Symbolist poets.

16, is a set of solo piano pieces composed by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December, 1896.

After a short break, he played in the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships, where he defeated qualifiers Grigor Dimitrov and Sergei Bubka, as well as compatriot Gilles Simon, before he lost to top seed Roger Federer in the semifinals in straight sets, despite serving for the second set.

Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.

The development after this shows a contrast to that of air rifle shooting: whereas in air rifle the winning score of the 1989 World Championships would not have reached the final 17 years later, the same result increase has not occurred in air pistol, and Sergei Pyzhianov's world record of 593 points, set in the first World Cup Final with the new targets, remained unbeaten for almost 20 years.

The team was led by Russia's Sergei Stolbun ; scoring ace Gennady Maslov ( current coach of Ak Bars-2 Kazan ), who enjoyed a short stint with the Soviet Wings and set a club record of 140 points in 76 games in 1982 – 83 ; and Ravil Shavaleev, who was regarded as one of the finest defenseman to ever come out of Tatarstan.

As Sergei Korolev ’ s associate, he set up a rocket propulsion center in Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine which later formed the basis of his own OKB-586 design bureau in 1954.

In addition to Cecchetti and the dancers, many other artists worked with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes: painters, set and costume designers Léon Bakst, Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Henri Matisse ; composers Claude Debussy, Manuel De Falla, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, and Igor Stravinsky.