Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano concertos are performed into the ground the world over. But his 85 songs are mostly neglected, perhaps because he lost the inspiration for them after he left Russia, not ...

April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

Had all gone according to plan three years ago, Chicagoans would have witnessed an unprecedented celestial event at Symphony Center. We’re not talking astronomy. April 2020 was to be the ...

To the haunting, wordless, and ethereal sound of solo soprano accompanied by a caressing orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise ushers us into a lush garden of birch trees bordered by flowers, two ...

Ninety years ago this week, a friendly smile from a Duluthian walking down Superior Street might have been met by the famous scowl of the 20th century's greatest composer-pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff.

(6) Songs, Movements: No. 4, Sing not to me, beautiful maiden (wds. Pushkin) Julia Sitkovetsky, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano (6) Songs, Movements: No. 5, Oh thou, my ...

When the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia with his wife and two daughters at the end of 1917, he left behind all his works except the recently revised Piano Concerto No. 1 and the vocal score ...

(5) Christmas Songs Jacques Imbrailo, Baritone Alisdair Hogarth, Piano Jean Sibelius, Composer (5) Songs, Movements: On a balcony by the sea (wds. Rydberg) Alisdair Hogarth, Piano Jean Sibelius, ...

It’s not hyperbole to say that Rachmaninoff is in Russian-American pianist Olga Kern‘s DNA. “I play Rachmaninoff all my life,” said the 50-year-old Kern, who will play the composer’s Piano Concerto No ...