Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto

[lynbron]

All western editions of this concerto contain minimal fingering (the Isadore Philipe for International has a few more). However, I heard a rumor that a more fully edited and fingered edition has been published in China. Can anyone confirm this?

Alfred Edition has a nicely edited edition of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, but not the Rachmaninoff Second.

The Bertenson/Ledya biography of Rachmaninoff reported that Rachmaninoff every summer had to restudy and rework six passages in this concerto, which he found awkward and uncomfortable to play. This was, I believe, from a letter to Medtner in 1930, at which time Rachmaninoff had already performed his Second Concerto approximately 300 times in public.

[faulty_damper]

If you are in need of fingering suggestions, you probably aren't technically capable of playing it, anyway.