Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 - Rachmaninoff Grieg and she offers unique insights

and she offers unique insights into the title of the suite and the individual movements

“Von fremden Ländern und Menschen” (“Of foreign lands and people”) or “Vogel als Prophet” (“The bird as prophet”)

In November 1892 Clara Schumann

“Isoldens Liebestod” (Isolde’s Love Death) – Wagner himself only spoke of Isolde’s “transfiguration”

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 - Rachmaninoff Grieg and she offers unique insightsSergei Rachmaninoffs 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 Paganinis 24th Caprice from op. 1, it stands in the tradition of the great works on this famous theme by Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. Its 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,