Emil de Cou Cou has recorded extensively including world premiere recordings of Claude Debussy's original version of Printemps Suite Symphonique, the orchestral version of Suite Bergamasque, Charles Griffes's The Kairn of Koridwen, and Elliot Goldenthal's Othello (ballet). For his ongoing work with NASA de Cou was awarded the agency's Exceptional Public Achievement Medal by Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. at the NSO @ Wolf Trap performance of The Planets in July 2012, the first musician to receive that honor. Emil de Cou Emil de Cou is an American conductor who became associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (John F. Kennedy Center for
Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) of the emotional tone of the music," the music itself is not programmatic. This work was first performed on November 30, 1893, by Rachmaninoff and Pavel Pabst in Moscow, and is dedicated to Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff composed a second suite in 1901. The four movements are: Perhaps surprisingly, given that Rachmaninoff wrote orchestral and two-piano versions of his "Symphonic Dances", which is effectively a three-movement symphony, no one has orchestrated this "Suite" as a possible symphony. Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Suite No. 1 (or "Fantaisie-Tableaux" for two pianos), Op. 5, is a composition for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Composed in