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, ...
Czech Republic's Jan Martiník performs Ves' tobor spit from Rakhmaninov's Aleko, in concert four of the 2009 competition. Aleko has run away from his family to join a band of gypsies. He has fallen in ...
Act 2 of Tchaikovsky's great ballet The Nutcracker and Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, with soloist Boris Giltburg and the BSO's new Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. Show more Act 2 of ...