Piano Solo

Play Rachmaninoff (Boosey & Hawkes)

Nine of Rachmaninoff's greatest themes
arranged for the intermediate standard pianist
by Nicholas Hare and Christopher Norton

Contains:

Prelude in C# minor Op.3, No.2*
Prelude in G Op.23, No.10*
Prelude in G minor Op.23, No.5*
Theme from Piano Concerto 3, first movement*
Theme from Piano Concerto 2, first movement
Theme from Piano Concerto 2, third movement
Theme from Symphony 2, second movement*
Theme from Symphony 2, third movement
Vocalise*

*These six items are arranged by Nicholas Hare

“a beautifully realised Vocalise and a brilliantly deceptive G minor Prelude will definitely find friends and impress grandparents at school concerts!” Classical Piano

 

Rachmaninoff: RHAPSODY on a Theme of Paganini, 18th Variation (Boosey & Hawkes)
arranged for Piano Solo by Nicholas Hare

The famous variation that everybody wants to play, arranged in a much more friendly key!

 

Rachmaninoff: SYMPHONY NO.2, theme from third movement (Boosey & Hawkes)
arranged for Piano Solo by Nicholas Hare

(click here)

 

Theme from the Oscar-winning film: Shine
Rachmaninoff: PIANO CONCERTO NO.3, theme from first movement
(Boosey & Hawkes)
arranged for Piano Solo by Nicholas Hare

(click here)

“…Over the past six weeks a massively simplified sheet-music version of the so-called ‘Rak 3’ has been outselling every other piece of printed music in Britain. The Edited Theme from the First Movement – or, as the woman from Chappell’s described it (with hardly a sneer at all, really), ‘the piano solo pop Shine version’ – was published by Boosey & Hawkes, guardians of the Rachmaninoff musical estate, shortly after Shine hit our cinemas…This B&H issue…is in fact very well realised by the arranger Nicholas Hare.  It has, as Stephen Richards, director of printed music at Boosey & Hawkes, points out, been ‘beautifully done: it’s immensely good editing, very pianistic’…this is playable by an above average grade four piano student…” Euan Ferguson: ‘Sergei Vailyevich who? You hum it and we’ll sell you a copy’, The Observer, London, Sunday 6 April 1997

 

Theme from the Stanley Kubrick film: Eyes Wide Shut
Shostakovich: WALTZ No.2 (Boosey & Hawkes)
arranged for Piano Solo by Nicholas Hare

This delightful waltz is featured to great effect in the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and is from the Second Suite For Jazz Orchestra by Dimitri Shostakovich.

 

Mike Mower: TANGO DEL FUEGO (Boosey & Hawkes)
arranged for Piano Solo by Nicholas Hare

The title track from James Galway's latin jazz disc, arranged for easy piano.

 

Theme from the Richard Attenborough film: Shadowlands
George Fenton: VENI SANCTE SPIRITUS
(Boosey & Hawkes)
arranged for Piano Solo by Nicholas Hare

Theme from the 1993 Richard Attenborough biographical film about the relationship between C S Lewis and the American poet Joy Davidman, her death from cancer, and how this challenged Lewis's Christian faith.

 

 

 

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