Siloti Plays Fragments from Liszt,Rachmaninoff ’s

Alexander Siloti,(1863-1945),was a pupil of Nikolai Rubinstein and later Franz Liszt. He studied composition with Tchaikovsky. He made many editions and transcription of Bach and other composers. It was Siloti who suggested the cuts in the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.2,which the composer approved. An introduction written by Mark W. Grant for Siloti’s “My Memories of Liszt“ states, “In turn of the century Russia,it was Siloti(Rachmaninoff’s cousin)who was a more famous pianist,and perh