Rachmaninoff information sites and hotlists:

• Join the Rachmaninoff Club and talk about SVR with people who share your interests.
• The home of the Rachmaninoff Society.
• Another Society site in the UK.
• The official home page for the movie Shine.
• The home page of the Library of Congress Rachmaninoff Archives.
• Find out when Rachmaninoff is being performed in your area.
• Charles Cave's downloadable database of Rachmaninoff's complete works.
• Rachmaninoff's complete works organized by opus number, also with a short biography.
• Simon Smith's excellent Rachpage.
• G. M. Lile's Rachpage.
• A fabulous site full of pictures of Rachmaninoff, both GIF and JPEG. This deserves a special mention. Bravo.
• Here's a canonical list of the words to his songs, in both Cyrillic and transliterated alphabets.
• Sing along: here are all the words to the Vespers (transliterated only).
• A small Russian site on the Children's Music Festival in Novgorod, Rachmaninoff's birthplace.
• A brief Rachmaninoff information page in Germany.
• Rachmaninoff's Tombstone, courtesy of Find-a-Grave.
• A page in honor of the 125th anniversary of Rachmaninoff's birth.
• Another page with MIDI links.
• Pay-per-view style sound files at Sunhawk.
• Safe Haven's Rachmaninoff page.
• An article that ran as a sidebar in Newsweek, on various pianists who recorded the Third Piano Concerto.
• The Rachmaninoff Lover's Home Page.
• Did you know that "Rachmaninoff" comes from the root "Rakhmanin," meaning "easily misled"? Check out the Russian Name Dictionary for more info.
• Some pages on specific works:
  • The Second Piano Concerto.
  • The Second Piano Concerto, again
  • The Third Piano Concerto.
  • The Third Piano Concerto, again
  • The Second Symphony.
  • The Piano Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor.
  • The Vespers, also with some sound files.
  • The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

When the coughing increases, I leave out the next variation. If there is no coughing, I play them in order. [...] The record so far is 18 variations, in New York.

---Rachmaninoff on his 20 Corelli Variations