Musicology Annotation << Back Rachmaninoff’s Serenade. «Dimensional» and «color» solutions of musical texture Dmitry Dyatlov The article presents a comparative analysis of the two editions of the Serenade Op. 3, № 5 S.V. Rachmaninoff: the first edition in 1892 and the second presentation in 1940. The selected angle of the study reveals spatial and “orchestral” properties of the musical matter of the piano piece. The article considers many various resources of the creation of sound perspective and genre color of Serenade. A comparison of two editions leads to the conclusion: the colorful imagination of the piece refers to the orchestral sonority, only the second edition achieves that each fragment of the piece gives the spatial effect and allusion of orchestral sound. The text was written in 1892 as an orchestral score, the voices are arranged horizontally, plans of the sound perspective are divided but the piece does not sound of the paints of the Symphony Orchestra. Numerous details of the guidance performing of the second edition were needed to achieve a colorful texture of the symphonic character. Keywords: Serenade, orchestral style, piano, Rachmaninoff, sound perspective, Classicism, Romanticism, the first edition, the second statement Contacts: E-mail: diatlovda@mail.ru Pp. 61-67.