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Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy

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CD of the Piano Concerto Version, Endorsed by Rachmaninoffs Grandson, Makes a Comeback Symphony No. 2 is a work brimming with melodies well-suited for a piano concertoThis unique project features an arrangement of Rachmaninoffs Symphony No. 2popular for its melancholic, sweet melodies and accessible dynamicsinto a piano concerto. This arrangement is said to have been endorsed by the composers grandson, Alexander Rachmaninoff (19332012; since he lived in Lucerne for many years, Ill use the German pronunciation here).The Arranger Graduated from the Leningrad ConservatoryThe arranger, Alexander Wallenberg, was born in 1952 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union (now Kharkiv, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine), and after studying under Pavel Serebryakov at the Leningrad Conservatory, he emigrated to the West in 1977 and took up a teaching position at the Utrecht Conservatory (known as Alexander Walenberg in