Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Both Sergei Rachmaninoff and Niccolò Paganini were virtuosos of their eras. There the similarities seem to end.
Category: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Sergei Rachmaninoff was always a composer of the long 19th century, but he had become a man of the 20th, interested in cars, speedboats, and airplanes. In these dances, he allowed some of that streamlined luxury into his plush Romanticism.