Tag: Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22
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PROGRAM NOTES: WINTERLUDE – SUPER SUNDAY WITH ALEXANDER MELNIKOV
Sergei Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22 Chopin’s funereal, passacaglia-like Prelude in C minor from his collection of 24 Preludes Op. 28 provides the theme for Rachmaninoff’s first large-scale work for solo piano, his Variations on a Theme of Chopin, completed in 1903. Taking as his point of departure the prelude’s hymn-like…