Duration: 38 minutes

Description: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) composed this second (Op. 39) of two sets of piano études in 1917. The title Études-Tableaux translates as “study pictures.” But while the works were inspired by some visual stimuli, Rachmaninoff did not disclose what those were, preferring to “let [the listener] paint for themselves what each of the nine tableaux’s most suggests.

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