{"product_id":"rachmaninoff-s-vocalise-1","title":"Rachmaninoff, S :: Vocalise","description":"\u003cspan class=\"NameInDesc\"\u003eVocalise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ComposerInDesc\"\u003eRachmaninoff, S\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusicians Publications presents Sergei Rachmaninoff s  Vocalise  arranged for woodwind quintet by Bill Holcombe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Vocalise is arranged by Holcombe to be a French Horn Feature. The french horn sings Rachmaninoff s beautifully dark melody accompanied by the woodwinds: flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For the six minutes of hypnotic beauty that are Rachmaninoff s  Vocalise,  we can thank Ivanovka, the composer s country estate. He loved Ivanovka, loved the expanse of the countryside that ringed it, loved the vast space between his eyes and the long horizon. Most of all, he loved its distance from a world of exhausting duties. Not that he ignored that world. For it wanted his music. And Ivanovka was a quiet place that seemed made for a composer to meet the demands of his public. There, in the summer of 1912, Rachmaninoff completed the fourteen songs that make up his Opus 34. The  Vocalise,  last of the group, is wordless music whose calm, and whose expansive lines, capture the spirit of its birthplace. Some have called the  Vocalise  an exercise for voice, though the work is about more than pitch structures, and to do it justice a singer must have a sense of what the music is  saying  not through words, but in gestures, inflections, and concentrated intensity of expression. Three years after completing his version for voice and piano, Rachmaninoff turned the  Vocalise' into a work for orchestra. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Larry Rothe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musicians Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968676450598,"sku":"MPWQ149","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/3559\/5814\/products\/700000000MPWQ149_d.jpg?v=1697517279","url":"https:\/\/www.flute4u.com\/products\/rachmaninoff-s-vocalise-1","provider":"Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}