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Andante Cantabile (Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (arr. Calvin Custer)
Subtitle: Variation XVIII, from Paganini Variations
General Info
Year: 1934 / 1995
Duration: c. 3:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano and orchestra
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II-III (III doubling Piccolo)
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Almost everyone knows this work simply as the Eighteenth Variation, and it is one of those melodies that finds its way into one's very psyche. Hear it once and you'll whistle it for days! It's a fascinating study in textures and shifting harmonies by Rachmaninoff, ably arranged by Calvin Custer.
- Program Note from publisher
The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, all in a single movement. Rachmaninoff wrote the work at his summer home, the Villa Senar in Switzerland, according to the score, from 3 July to 18 August 1934. Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the piano part at the piece's premiere on 7 November 1934, at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
The Andante Cantabile is the 18th variation, in the key of D-flat major.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
State Ratings
- Louisiana: III
- Texas: III. Complete
- Virginia: IV
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Morceaux de fantaisie (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Deterling) (1892/2020)
All Wind Works
- Andante Cantabile (arr. Custer) (1934/1995)
- Bogoroditse Devo (arr. Genervo) (1915/2009)
- Bogoroditse Devo (arr. Salzman). See: Three Vespers from "All-Night Vigil"
- Morceaux de fantaisie (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Deterling) (1892/2020)
- Chimes of Moscow
- Concerto for Piano No. 2, Theme 3rd Mvt. (arr. Lang)
- Evocation of the Spirit (tr. Singleton) (2017)
- Glory and Honor (arr. Houseknecht)
- Hymn (arr. Grauer) (1915/2005)
- Italian Polka (arr. Leidzen) (1941)
- Italian Polka (arr. Lucas) (1938/2006)
- Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor (tr. Oaks) (1901/2007)
- Piano Concerto No. 2, Themes from (arr. Williams)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor (tr. Patterson)
- Prelude in C minor
- Prelude in G minor (arr. Lake) (1901/1922)
- Prelude, Opus 3, No. 2 (arr. Longfield)
- Rachmaninoff Prelude (arr. Cichy)
- Rachmaninoff Prelude (arr. McGinty)
- Russian Liturgy (arr. Singleton) (1910/1999)
- Russian Polka
- Suite from “All-Night Vigil” (Vespers) (arr. Juchniewicz) (1915)
- Symphonic Dance Op 45 No 3 (arr. Satoh) (1940/1984)
- Symphonic Dances, Op 45, No. 3 (arr. Lavender) (1940/2015)
- Symphony No. 1 - Finale (arr. Hanna)
- Symphony No. 2: Adagio (arr. Hanna) (1907/2013)
- Theme from "Piano Concerto No 2" (arr. Bennett) (1901/1947)
- Three Vespers from "All-Night Vigil" (arr. Salzman) (1915/2008)
- Bogoroditse Devo (arr. Salzman) (1915/2005)
- Vespers, Opus 37, for Symphonic Winds (arr. Johnson) (1915/2011)
- Svete Tokhyi (arr. Johnson)
- Blazhen Muzh (arr. Johnson)
- Blagoslovi, Dushe Moya (arr. Johnson)
- Vocalise (arr. Wheeler) (1909/2019)
- Vocalise, Opus 34, No. 14 (arr. Hunsberger) (1909/2004)
- Vocalise, Opus 34, No. 14 (arr. Roszell) (1909/)
Resources
- Rachmaninoff, S.; Custer, C. (1995). Andante cantabile: Var. XVIII, from Paganini Variations [score]. Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp.: Miami, Fla.
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Wikipedia. Accesssed 13 June 2021