2. His first symphony could have been a victim of musical politics The premiere of Rachmaninov’s first symphony was a disaster. Among the detractors, César Cui, a composer and critic ...

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 ... For two years he worked on the composition of his First Symphony. The premiere was a disaster: the music was ...

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 ...

The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Frizza conducting mix homeland sounds of Liszt and Kodály with Beethoven ...