Recorded on 7 June, 2024 in Trinity Laban during my Final Recital for the Masters in Music Degree.

Rachmaninoff's (18731943) Six moments musicaux Op.16, is a set of solo piano pieces composed by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December 1896. The individual pieces have been described as "true concert works, being best served on a stage and with a concert grand.”

By the fall of 1896, 23yearold. Rachmaninoff's financial status was precarious, not helped by being robbed of money on an earlier train trip. Pressed for time, both financially and by those expecting a symphony, he rushed into production. “This perpetual financial pressure is, on the one hand, quite beneficial ... by the 20th of this month I must write six piano pieces”

Andantino is the longest in the set of Op.16 by playing time (about eight and a half minutes). It is described as a generic hybrid, combining elements of the nocturne and theme and variation genres. The melody is chromatic, syncopated and long.