Rosa Tamarkina was one of the most talented young pianists of the 20th century

Her career started aged thirteen and was sadly truncated prematurely when she developed cancer and died at just 30 years old

Tamarkina is best known for her interpretations of Chopin and Liszt but ever since her debut, she was able to read many more composers’ works with natural poetry

Her performance in Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto, featured in this collection, can be considered one of the best renditions of his masterpiece

Many consider Tamarkina a genius, who lit the musical sky for a brief moment like a meteor, testified to by only a few recordings

• Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
• Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key'
• Chopin: Etude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minor
• Chopin: Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49
• Chopin: Mazurka No. 38 in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3
• Chopin: Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie'
• Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
• Franck, C: Violin Sonata in A major
• Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera
• Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 10 in E major 'Preludio'
• Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Annees de pelerinage II, S. 161 No. 5)
• Rachmaninov: Gavotte in D major
• Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
• Rachmaninov: Prelude in F major (1891)
• Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major
• Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 23 No. 7 in C minor
• Schubert: Der Muller und der Bach
• Schubert: Erstarrung (No. 4 from Winterreise, D911)
• Schubert: Impromptu in E flat major, D899 No. 2
• Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
• Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 111
• Taneyev, S: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30