Rachmaninov Archive

The premiere of this concert took place on November 28, 1909, with Rachmaninoff as soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Some weeks later, it would be heard in New York again, this time with …

Written in the three-movement form typical of Romantic concertos, the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninov is filled with the composer’s stylistic hallmarks: dazzling virtuosity and plush melody. It begins with an Allegro movement …

Sonya Bach started playing the piano at the age of three, gave her first public concert at age five, and made her orchestra debut at age nine with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. She received musical …

Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was a personal as well as a musical triumph for the composer. During his lifetime Rachmaninov suffered from depression. For three years, between 1897 and 1900, Rachmaninov …

Rachmaninov’s Vocalise was originally written for voice and orchestra as the final piece in his ‘Fourteen Songs’, Op. 34. But because the piece has no text and can be sung to a vowel the singer …