How To Use Rachmaninoff In A Sentence
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He showed a special affinity for the understanding and performance of the music of Rachmaninoff.
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Mike, who was just a kid in the neighborhood with odd — evolved? sophisticated?— taste, had dozens more tapes: Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Strauss.
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And though her readings of Rachmaninoff are in fact quite beautiful in their own right, distinguished as they are by an imaginative rubato, they remain only superficially elegant.
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With musical settings that evoke Rachmaninoff by way of Debussy and sometimes inflected with J. S. Bach, she often moved beyond the realm of jazz into a semiclassical sphere, although the label semiclassical really doesn't suffice, because the music is improvised.
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Rachmaninoff, an outstanding composer and performer, experienced the modern music of early 20th century but still maintained the Russian style in his musical creation.
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For At the Edge of Night Baynes used seven Rachmaninoff piano preludes to generate an atmosphere of dreams and remembrance.
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Rachmaninoff indicates that the tenor carries the melody by placing accents over each of its notes.
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I learned augmentation and diminution from the d-sharp-minor fugue in Book I of the WTC; I learned inversion from Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations — the old stand-bys are old indeed.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Hurried, resounding strains of a Rachmaninoff prelude are abruptly cut short.
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Rachmaninoff indicates that the tenor carries the melody by placing accents over each of its notes.
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After a few builds and falls, the scherzo gives way to a gorgeous, lush melody of a kind normally associated with Rachmaninoff.
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The incredulity displayed is akin to watching a piano-playing chicken bang out Rachmaninoff.
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The piano does play a more subservient role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout.
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Also, we are given only the "vespers" portion of the Rachmaninoff
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In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand.
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The big problem was the Rachmaninoff, which in the hands of Bronfman, sounded rather undynamic while certainly technically admirable.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Rachmaninoff was a composer, pianist and conductor, and his constant traveling and concertizing may be the reason his body of works only reached Op. 45.
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The Finale had a perfect presto which reminded me of Rachmaninoff-jolting, fervent, jagged-no comfort at all from the gloom and dread of the Marche funèbre.
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His Rachmaninoff group brought some of the most purely beautiful pianism in recent seasons.
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Stott's touch was glittering and adroit, but light, leaving the goopiness at which Rachmaninoff excels entirely to Ma, who reveled in it without excess.
Music review: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott at the Kennedy Center
