Nov. 11, 1921: Rachmaninoff sorry he wrote prelude Sergei Rachmaninoff – who many musicians declare is the biggest living composer and the finest pianist in the world today – acknowledges he made his ...

Although Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the most successful 20th century composers, he has been snubbed by some musical elitists, even historians. One famous music history book devotes a mere seven ...

This is the Miles Davis tune from the 1950s called "Solar" - found its way into a surprising new context for an artist who's created some intriguing mashups of pop, jazz and classical music.

The virtuoso pianist Boris Giltburg plays a programme of Rachmaninov's Preludes, which are undisputed jewels of the piano repertoire. Starting with the great Prelude in C-sharp minor, which depict the ...

Expressive asynchrony, a vestige of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century "melodic rubato," occurs when notationally solid chords are either arpeggiated or performed with a slight desynchronization ...

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Prelude and fugue No. 24 in B minor, BWV 869)The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Prelude and fugue No. 24 in B minor, BWV 869) ...