Rapsodie sur un thème de Paganini op. 43

作曲家:Sergei Rachmaninoff  
樂器: Piano
出版社: G. Henle Verlag
原文簡介:
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini was his last and at the same time most significant work for piano and orchestra. As a cycle of variations on Paganini’s 24th Caprice from op. 1, it stands in the tradition of the great works on this famous theme by Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. “It’s something for the audiences”, wrote the reviewer of the New Yorker about one of the first performances of this Rhapsody with the composer at the piano, “the succession of brilliances for the piano, dramatic references to the Dies Irae, wide-open Schmalz for divided strings, and old-fashioned bravura”. Alongside the Second and Third Piano Concertos, this brilliant work today numbers among Rachmaninoff’s most frequently performed compositions. For this first Urtext edition of the Rhapsody, the editor was able to consult both the autograph held by the Library of Congress and the first edition, the publication of which was supervised by the composer. In addition to the solo part, the piano reduction offers a very playable arrangement of the orchestral setting. Parallel with the present edition, the score and orchestral parts have been published in cooperation with Breitkopf & Härtel.
謝爾蓋·拉赫曼尼諾夫的《帕格尼尼主題狂想曲》是他最後一部，也是他為鋼琴與管弦樂隊創作中最重要的作品。這部作品是基於帕格尼尼《作品1》第24號隨想曲的一組變奏曲，延續了弗朗茨·李斯特和約翰內斯·布拉姆斯在這一著名主題上的偉大傳統。關於拉赫曼尼諾夫親自演奏此狂想曲之一的評論中，《紐約客》的評論者寫道：「這是給觀眾聽的作品，鋼琴的華麗接連不斷，戲劇性地引用了《怒火之日》，分弦的濃情蜜意，以及復古的勇猛風格。」與第二和第三鋼琴協奏曲並列，這部傑作如今已成為拉赫曼尼諾夫最常演奏的作品之一。這是《狂想曲》的首個原典版，編輯得以參考美國國會圖書館保存的手稿和由作曲家親自監督出版的首版。除了獨奏部分外，鋼琴縮編還提供了一個非常易於演奏的管弦樂編排。與本版同步發行的還有樂譜和管弦樂部分，這是與布雷特科夫與赫特爾（Breitkopf & Härtel）合作的成果。