Description

Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux continued the path set out by Chopin and Liszt's concert etudes, presenting the most demanding technical tasks in the form of expressive character pieces. Rachmaninoff composed two cycles, each originally with nine Études-Tableaux, but shortly before Opus 33 went to print, he removed three of the pieces.

Several posthumous editions later reversed this decision, but in our Urtext edition, we follow Rachmaninoff's original structure of six pieces. The two surviving etudes that were not originally published are reprinted in an appendix.

Songs / Content

• Étude-Tableau f minor op. 33,1
• Étude-Tableau C major op. 33,2
• Étude-Tableau e flat minor op. 33,3
• Étude-Tableau E flat major op. 33,4
• Étude-Tableau g minor op. 33,5
• Étude-Tableau c sharp minor op. 33,6
• Étude-Tableau c minor op. 39,1
• Étude-Tableau a minor op. 39,2
• Étude-Tableau f sharp minor op. 39,3
• Étude-Tableau b minor op. 39,4
• Étude-Tableau e flat minor op. 39,5
• Étude-Tableau a minor op. 39,6
• Étude-Tableau c minor op. 39,7
• Étude-Tableau d minor op. 39,8
• Étude-Tableau D major op. 39,9
• Appendix
• Étude-Tableau c minor (op. 33)
• Étude-Tableau d minor (op. 33)