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Rachmaninoff

[ US /ɹækˈmænɪnɔf/ ]
NOUN
  1. composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943)

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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.
  • 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
  • His Rachmaninoff group brought some of the most purely beautiful pianism in recent seasons.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The big problem was the Rachmaninoff, which in the hands of Bronfman, sounded rather undynamic while certainly technically admirable. Archive 2007-01-01
  • 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.
  • Also, we are given only the "vespers" portion of the Rachmaninoff Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • 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.
  • The incredulity displayed is akin to watching a piano-playing chicken bang out Rachmaninoff.
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