Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuo (opening)

Name: Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuo (opening)
Duration: 4 min 32 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
2.6	Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor	4:33	Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов	Classical Heartbreakers	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2004-01-13	EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint)	7243 5 85345 2 8
1.13	Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto (Opening)	4:31	Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff	100 Best Romantic Classics (EMI Classics 6CD Release)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2008-01-14	EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19)
1.18	Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto (excerpt)	4:33	Sergei Rachmaninoff	The Prodigy Conductor	Sir Simon Rattle; Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Benjamin Britten, Carl Orff, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, George Gershwin, Georges Bizet, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius, Joaquín Rodrigo, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Album + Compilation	XW2025-01-07	Warner Classics
1.95	Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto (excerpt)	4:33	Sergei Rachmaninoff	The Roaring Seventies	Sir Simon Rattle	Album + Compilation	XW2025-01-19	Warner Classics

piano:	Cécile Ousset (French pianist)
orchestra:	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
conductor:	Simon Rattle (conductor)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	EMI Records Ltd. (not for release label use! UK parent of EMI‐owned labels until Sept 2012) (in 1984)

recording of:	Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto (partial)

premiered in:	Moscow, Russia (on 1900-12-15)

composer:	Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian composer) (from 1900 until 1901-04)

referred to in medleys:	Comedy in Music, Part I
part of:	Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18 (movement) (order: 2)
is the basis for:	All by Myself Kam tenkrát šel mùj bratr Jan Preghiera
arrangements:	Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto (catch-all for arrangements) Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto (arr. Rachmaninov for two pianos)