Sergei Rachmaninoff recordings

[1] Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

Thomas Edison, who was musically unsophisticated and quite deaf,[3] did not care for Rachmaninoff's playing and referred to him as a "pounder" at their initial meeting.

Rachmaninoff believed his own performances to be variable in quality and requested that he be allowed to approve any recordings for commercial release.

Rachmaninoff also made three recordings conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in his own Third Symphony, his symphonic poem Isle of the Dead, and his orchestration of Vocalise.

Aeolian in London created a set of three rolls of this concerto in 1909, which remained in the catalogues of its various successors until the late 1970s.

For demonstration purposes, he recorded the solo part of his Second Piano Concerto for Ampico, though only the second movement was used publicly and has survived.