My Life in Music is an ebony and ivory journey through a distinguished career that included studying under the legendary ...

Russian Romantics share the stage in this programme featuring the latest rising star of the piano to join BBC Radio 3’s New ...

Gemma Bond returns to create her third world premiere with a dance company she has been getting to know since 2022.

Is Slavic melancholy so different to any other kind? According to fans of Rachmaninov’s gorgeously melancholic music, the answer is definitely yes. They insist only Russian pianists can really ...

A Five Year Old Prodigy (1930) Notably, Slenczynska is considered to be composer-pianist Sergei Rachmaninov’s last living pupil. It is thought that the young pianist even once stepped in for the great ...

An emotional man and a deep thinker, Sergei Rachmaninov was something of an introvert and was once dubbed by fellow composer Igor Stravinsky as a “six-and-a-half-foot scowl.” Despite all this ...

Few musicians have successfully followed two musical disciplines, but Sergey Rachmaninov (born April 1, 1873; died March 28, 1943) managed three: composer, conductor and pianist. His music is tonal, ...

A concert of striking contrasts in Dublin, from Debussy’s ethereal textures to Rachmaninov’s lush romanticism.

A great ’70s power ballad, reincarnated by Céline Dion in 1996, that finds the melody for its verses in Russian giant Rachmaninov’s most famous piano concerto – pop-classical sampling doesn’t get much ...

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Scriabin and Rachmaninov – both virtuoso pianists as well as composers – performed the work, sometimes even together with Scriabin playing and Rachmaninov conducting. Please note that tickets ...