Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

The power of positive suggestion can be profound. It enabled Sergei Rachmaninoff to compose one of his most successful masterpieces, one that headlines the next weekend of Pittsburgh Symphony ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.” By Joshua ...

Discover how William Walton's First Symphony made its Singapore premiere, alongside Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, at ...

PITTSFIELD — With his newest music-theater piece, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” 56-year-old pianist-actor-playwright Hershey Felder takes a twist on a formula that has served him extremely well in a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — He is considered as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century and 80 years ago, he took his final bow in Knoxville. Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff played his last recital at ...

Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow’s Imperial Grand Theatre. Muscovite socialites liked the way he ...

Until recently, most classical music videos have been humdrum affairs. Musicians, in concert attire, earnestly produce their notes with eyes closed and heads tilted in a beatific expression, somewhere ...

Before the Revolution of 1917 Russia knew its Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff chiefly as a composer who patterned himself after Tchaikovsky and wrote gentle, nostalgic music according to 19th ...