Edison's staff and Rachmaninoff were pleased with the released discs and wanted to record more, but Thomas Edison refused to engage the pianist for further work, saying the ten sides were sufficient for label prestige purposes. Edison agreed but still issued multiple takes, a very unusual practice which was routine at Edison, where strict company policy demanded three good takes of each selection to mitigate the effects of production wear and provide redundancy in case of damage to a metal master in practice, this meant to the staff that takes passed for issue were interchangeable, but it was also very wearing on artists who often had to record an item several times over to produce each of those three problem-free takes. Rachmaninoff believed his own performances to be variable in quality and requested that he be allowed to approve any recordings for commercial release. The Edison company took some care with its piano recordings but used an unusual make, the Lauter, made in Newark Rachmaninoff recorded on a Lauter concert grand, one of the few the company made. However, the staff at Edison's New York recording studio (led by company pianist Robert Gayler) asked Edison to reconsider his dismissive position, resulting in a limited contract for ten released sides. Thomas Edison, who was musically unsophisticated and quite deaf, did not care for Rachmaninoff's playing and referred to him as a "pounder" at their initial meeting. Rachmaninoff first recorded in 1919, for Edison Records' unusual " Diamond Discs", as they claimed the best audio fidelity in recording the piano at the time. Many of Rachmaninoff's recordings are acknowledged classics. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. No.Rachmaninoff in front of a giant Redwood tree, California, 1919 16 Six Musical Moments Six Moments Musicaux, Op. Moments Musicaux Seis Moments Musicaux Sechs musikalische Momente Sei momenti musicali op. 楽興の時 Moments musicaux de Rachmaninov Six Moments Musicaux Six moments musicaux Seks moments musicaux (Rakhmaninov) Sei momenti musicali Шесть музыкальных моментов 악흥의 순간
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