Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Before the beginning
• 2. The family breaks up
• 3. Zveref and Moscow
• 4. Composition starts
• 5. The break with Zveref
• 6. To Ivanovka
• 7. More compositions
• 8. Towards graduation
• 9. Aleko and the graduation
• 10. First moves as 'Free Artist'
• 11. More productions and Tchaikovsky's death
• 12. The long road to Symphony No. 1
• 13. A symphony misunderstood
• 14. London visit, Moscow cure
• 15. The Crimea, Italy, Concerto No. 2
• 16. Composition concludes and there is a marriage
• 17. Variations, Preludes and a child is born
• 18. Two operas
• 19. An abortive revolution, the operas produced
• 20. Sonata, Symphony, part of an opera
• 21. The Isle of the Dead and Concerto No. 3
• 22. America and the Liturgy
• 23. 1910, more preludes, more conducting
• 24. Etudes Tableaux, Marietta Shaginian, more songs
• 25. The Bells and a last sonata
• 26. World War I, All-Night Vigil, last songs
• 27. Final composing in Russia, escape from Petrograd
• 28. The expatriate artist: first concerts, first recordings
• 29. Rachmaninoff fully established
• 30. Two more seasons, more recordings
• 31. Concerto No. 4, Chansons Russes
• 32. Rachmaninoff the pianist
• 33. Classic recordings and orchestration by another
• 34. Senar and LaFolia
• 35. Rapsodie, Sympony No. 3
• 36. Four more seasons, major recordings
• 37. Symphonic Dances
• 38. Last recordings, a final tour
• 39. Envoi
• Appendices: Chronological list of works
• Classified list of works
• Discography
• Bibliography
• Index.