Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Tchaikovsky, Lullaby - Op. 16, No. 1 (1872)
Arranged for solo piano by Rachmaninoff (1941), the composer’s last arr./composition.
Nikolai Lugansky, 2018
From St Petersburg Philharmonic
“He was humble, like all really great people; and simple, like very few. Of everyone I knew, only Chekhov was like him.”
- Rachmaninoff on Tchaikovsky, c. 1890