Sonata III, from 'Violin Sonatas, Op 1, libro primo' Eva Saladin (violin), Daniel Rosin (cello), Johannes Keller (harpsichord) ...

Alexandre Kantorow joins the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov's Opus 1, his Piano Concerto no 1, written when he was 17 years old. Then the orchestra takes centre stage in ...

Under the strict regime of Zverev, Rachmaninov quickly developed into a formidable player ... For two years he worked on the composition of his First Symphony. The premiere was a disaster: the music ...

Let’s start by having a listen... When Sergei Rachmaninov started composing this towering piano masterpiece in 1900, he was in a terrible emotional state after having been absolutely pilloried in the ...

Kindest of all, he supported the infirm Alexander Glazunov, a senior figure who had conducted Rachmaninoff’s first symphony in 1897 while drunk, plunging the young composer into three years of ...