Rachmaninoff : life, works, recordings / by Harrison, Max

Table of Contents: “…Before the beginning -- The family breaks up -- Zveref and Moscow -- Composition starts -- The break with Zveref -- To Ivanovka -- More compositions -- Towards graduation -- Aleko and the graduation -- First moves as 'free artist' -- More productions and Tchaikovsky's death -- The long road to Symphony No. 1 -- A symphony misunderstood -- London visit, Moscow cure -- The Crimea, Italy, Concerto No. 2 -- Composition continues and there is a marriage -- Variations, preludes, a child is born -- Two operas -- An abortive revolution, the operas produced -- Sonata, symphony, part of an opera -- The isle of the dead and Concerto No. 3 -- American and the liturgy -- 1910, more preludes, more conducting -- Études-tableaux, Marietta Shaginian, more songs -- The bells and a last sonata -- World War I, all-night vigil, last songs -- Final music in Russia, escape from Petrograd -- The expatriate artist: first concerts, first recordings -- Rachmaninoff fully established -- Another two seasons, more recordings -- Concerto No. 4, Chansons Russes -- Rachmaninoff the pianist -- Classic recordings and orchestration by another -- Senar and LaFolia -- Rapsodie and symphony -- Four more seasons, major recordings -- Symphonic dances -- Last recordings, a final tour -- Envoi.…”