Sergei Rachmaninov was born in 1873 into an affluent Russian family. Unfortunately, his father lost all their wealth in business, which resulted in his parents' separation and Sergei moving to ...

Pianist George Li helped the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra welcome 2025 in a big way with his jaw-dropping performance of ...

Few musicians have successfully followed two musical disciplines, but Sergey Rachmaninov (born April 1 ... For two years he worked on the composition of his First Symphony. The premiere was a disaster ...

Osmo Vänskä’s Pittsburgh program includes key works of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, prefaced with a recent piece from Samy ...

2. His first symphony could have been a victim of musical politics The premiere of Rachmaninov’s first symphony ... the discords of which absolutely tortured me. No sooner had the last chords ...

Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev has more than 19 years of experience and came to perform Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto with the Panama City Symphony. “It was the first piece that he ...