Symphonic Dance Op 45 No 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff (arr. Satoh)

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General Info

Year: 1940 / 1984
Duration: c. 5:50
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts - Out of print.

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Sergei Rachmaninoff's last composition. The work summarizes Rachmaninoff's compositional output. The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like grotesquerie of the outer movements and the focus on individual instrumental tone colors throughout. The Dances allowed him to indulge in a nostalgia for the Russia he had known, as well as to effectively sum up his lifelong fascination with ecclesiastical chants.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: U.S. Army Band (Gary F. Lang, conductor) - 2011

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. U.S. Army Band (Gary F. Lang, conductor)

State Ratings

• Tennessee: VI

Performances

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• Encore Concert Band (Mokena, Ill.) (Bill Schuetter, conductor) – 1 May 2016
• Creekview High School (Carrollton, Tx.) Wind Symphony (Preston Hazzard, conductor) – 16 December 2011 (2011 Midwest Clinic)

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.; Satoh, M. (1984). Symphonic Dance: Op. 45, No. 3 [score]. Belwin Mills: Melville, N.Y.
• Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff), Wikipedia Accessed 13 May 2016