Sergei Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead

- Composer: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 -- 28 March 1943) - Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis - Year of recording: 1997 Painting: “Isle of the Dead“ {3rd version} (Arnold Böcklin 1883) The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic poem, Op. 29, written in 1908-1909. Rachmaninoff was inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s painting, Isle of the Dead, which he saw in Paris in 1907. He concluded the composition while staying in Dresden in 1908. It is considered a clas