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Preludes (Rachmaninoff)

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Rachmaninoff's 24 published preludes of Op. 3, 23, and 32 have most often been recorded as a unified set of 24. He himself was somewhat more diffident: he recorded much of his own music, but only eight of the 24 preludes
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minor); and he never performed more than four preludes in any single concert. However, it was in keeping with the practice of the times to play selected pieces rather than entire lengthy works.
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minor, but it is not known whether he fully intended by this time to eventually complete the full complement of 24 preludes in different keys, to emulate earlier examples by Bach,
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major) satisfying neither criterion. However, by choosing 11 different keys for his first 11 published preludes, he was at least keeping his options open.
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in 1887. In July 1891, there was a Prelude in F major, which he also arranged for cello and piano. Neither of these pieces was published in his lifetime.
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This set contains four pairs of parallel keys (E, F, A, and B major/minor) and four pairs of relative keys (B major/G
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as his Op. 3. This contained five assorted piano pieces all with different titles, the second of which was the
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and others. There is nothing to suggest this intention from the order of the keys:
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By 1910 Rachmaninoff had definitely decided to complete the set of 24, publishing
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preludes (in which the keys were organized chromatically and around the
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The Performances of Rachmaninoff – A Discography, Notes from RCA's
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as part of the ‘four discs essential Rachmaninoff collection’.
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Rachmaninoff's first attempt at a prelude was that in E
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