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Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score

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The Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos are among the hardest ever written. This book does a good job of showing the composer's intentions. Its inclusion of the ossia version as well as the simplified version of the solo part helps the reader to compare the two. Also, the orchestra parts are easily read and well spaced. There is never too much or too little on one page. It is a great book for conductors, pianists, or anyone else who loves the Rach concerti. This is a must have for any serious piano concerto fan!

What to say...This book contains the 3 most beautiful peace of music ever written;if you had the luck to listen to them you'll know why. And if you're a musician, you'll want to play them (or at least a part of them, since they're treacherous hard to play..).And what's the best way to fully understand a concert in its greatness, if not the full score? Maybe somebody can think that the notes are a little tiny, but I personally find them perfectly clear, with the ossias, too.
If you're a real musician, you'll love this wonderful product!

Regarding those who say that the type is too small to allow pianists to learn their parts from this version of the score: fine, get a 2-piano version for your technical mastery of the music, BUT get this too if you want to be a real musician when learning this music. [The same applies to singers and other instrumentalists when dealing with concerti and other such works, period - never rely only on the vocal/instrumental arrangements with piano...] This is an excellent edition and deserves its full 5 stars!!!

Buy this score for the Second or Third concertos, not the First.

Dover has made a serious mistake in reprinting what it claims is a 1960s Russian printing of the First Piano Concerto. The edition here simply isn't the standard version of the 1917 revision of the concerto. At the same time, it isn't the original version, either. Structurally, it seems to be identical to the revised version, but much of the piano figuration (I'm unsure about the orchestral part) is based on the original version. I have no idea how this hybrid came about - perhaps it was compiled from an intermediate version in the revision process, or perhaps it was created by the publisher. At any rate, it's not much use in studying the modern version of this concerto.

Boosey has published the First Concerto together with the Second. This score (ISBN 9780851624440) is excellent, highly readable, and available at a very reasonable price from this site here.

Not owning a piano nor having the requisite skill to do much in the way of playing (but knowing basic sight-reading), I've lately been enjoying getting the sheet music for some of the really impressive pieces I've run across, to attempt to follow along, or just get an idea of what's really behind all of those arrangements.

I bought this book on a bit of an impulse after re-watching the film "Shine", which features bits of the "Rach 3", and having read a good bit about Rachmaninoff [...]. It just floors me, how performers, both in the picture and in real life (such as the Van Cliburn performance I found on yahoo.com Music), can get off some of the stuff that's in those notes, particularly those rapidly-arpegiatted sequences of complex chords.

What I figure would be next is to take a disc sander and remove the binding, then punch notebook binder holes on the sides, so that it might actually sit on a piano music holder, though of course, for me only a decoration. To those who would actually dare a performance, I give my respect.

A must have for fans of the Rachmaninoff piano concertos... cheap in price while well printed and bound - it's a great addition to any music library collection!

The beauty of the second concerto and the strength and skill level of the third concerto is very difficult, it's impressive that Rachmaninoff compose this beautiful concertos after his psicological problem. Sergei Rachmaninoff one of the most important pianist in the world begin your musical development when he was a young, and create a dificult and magician world of all the piano lovers. I'm a music student. I'd like to be a conductor and this edition provide me of the magic of the three first piano concertos of Rachmaninoff. The first time I open the book a greatest world of sound came to me. It's a very good choice if you are a student of conducting or you are a music lover. It's Amazing!!!

This edition has the full orchestra music as well as the piano music. But, all staffs are so tiny that you really can't do that much with it.