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

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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

In a thrilling concert oscillating between lush sentiment and explosive tension, pianist Lise de la Salle and conductor Diego ...

Kit Harington narrates how Rachmaninov - Russian music’s brightest star - was floored by paralysing writer’s block after a catastrophic premiere in 1897. And how, through one doctor’s remarkable and ...

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Her new work, which still didn’t have a title during a pre-Christmas interview, got its start with the Royal Ballet in 2019 when it was a pas de deux set to preludes by Sergei Rachmaninov. “ ...