Picturing Rachmaninoff presents recordings of Sergei Rachmaninoff's 9 Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 for piano in combination with masterpieces of painting and literature. Though he titled the included works 'Etudes-Tableaux' or 'Picture Studies, ' Rachmaninoff did not publish specific descriptions of the images he meant to evoke in the music. This book seeks to name the unnamed Tableaux through the use of artistic fusion. Originally...