Suites nos. 1 and 2 for Two Pianos

Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Vronsky & Babin

Suites Nos. 1 and 2 for Two Pianos are a pair of suites composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1893 and 1901 respectively. Scored for two pianos, they exemplify late-Romantic piano writing with lush harmonies, expansive melodic lines and dense pianistic textures that require close ensemble and virtuosic technique, and they trace the composer’s development from his early idiom toward the more assured keyboard and orchestral voice of his later works.