Complete Songs for Voice and Piano

Super collection de chansons de Rachma. Je ne regrette pas l'avoir acheté. Je suis charmée et je me régale en travaillant ces œuvres.

This book includes all songs originally published in two volumes in the sequence of their opus numbers, and so is useful and cheap. (Songs with no opus number are not included.) The print is good and readable. It is very useful to have the translations in parallel. The Russian words are given in their original language using some letters of the alphabet which are not in current use; there is no transliteration or help with pronunciation.The English translations are as in the original publication and can seem dated. The "Contents" lists the songs in the sequence of their opus numbers giving their English titles and the letter H,M or L to indicate pitch. The poet is given with the song and a list of poets is given after the Contents.The book marries well with the recording of all Rachmaninov's songs on CDs from Delphian.

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Rachmaninoff has composed some of the most beautiful songs in existence, but these treasures are largely untouched, save for his Vocalise (Op.34 No.14), and maybe Op.4 No.4 and Op.21. No.7. This is a shame, considering that there are many treasures available in his collection of songs.Interestingly, the "cycles" or groups of songs are not the same cycles that we find in the works of other composers. Rachmaninoff has set up these Opus numbers to contain songs for each of the main voice types, and therefore, the cycles are either meant to be sung by multiple vocalists, or are not intended to be sung in a sequence.Any way that you choose to study and Perform Rachmaninoff song repertoire, you cannot go wrong. The challenges of this series goes beyond the difficulty of the rarely-sung Russian language. The ranges are often astonishingly challenging, with the climax being held for at least a value of a half-note.I would only improve this book by providing IPA or other phonetic aids to the text. And, of course, I always like to see accompaniment provided on CD with repertoire books, since I am a lousy pianist!

ロシア語、英語、フランス語、ドイツ語で、歌詞が書いてある曲はありましたが、ぶにかさんが書かれていた発音記号表示されている曲は、残念ですが…私が、見たところありませんでした。何回か版を重ねて出版されていると思われますので、ぶにかさんの楽譜の版にはあったのかも知れません。私の手元に届いたものは無かった…。私は気にならないのですが、紙質は、余り良くありません（再生紙かと思われます）ので、紙質にこだわる方は、違う楽譜をお求めになられるといいと思います。しかし、ぶにかさんが書かれているように、ラフマニノフ歌曲の楽譜としては、かなりお手ごろ価格だと思います。安価！皆様にお奨めできる楽譜です。