Extra Tracks

Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files. Those originating on 78rpm discs are raw and no attempt to clean up the surface noise had been made although we have removed some loud cracks and bangs. Please note the previews are compressed files so the sound is not as good as that on the whole track.

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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873 -1944)

Rachmaninoff was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, very nearly the last great representative of Russian late Romanticism in classical music. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 Rachmaninoff emigrated to the USA where he spent much of the rest of his life giving concerts. His last recital, given on 17 February 1943 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, included Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2, which contains the famous Marche funebre (Funeral March). This sonata had been a favourite for Rchamaninoff throughout his concert career. Rachmaninoff's large hands enabled him to play stride piano, but only in private. He was an admirer and friend of Fats Waller.

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