Yevgeny Sudbin and Scott Yoo explain the premise behind Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on Paganini” and then perform the piece. This is really one of his most famous things. Actually, Rachmaninoff borrowed ...

Rachmaninov's piano concerto-esque work was the 1934 equivalent of sampling a pop song. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is also one of the romantic period's greatest pieces. Had he lived to hear ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this year Yuja Wang delivered one of the high-profile dates of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary year ...

The last of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin, Op 1, has captured the imagination of many musicians. Paganini himself thought well enough of it to make it the subject of 11 variations and a ...

These concertos span Rachmaninov's career, from his farewell to Russia (the piano concerto No 1 of 1891) to his uneasy exile in the new world, where he encountered 1920s jazz and big bands but wrote ...

Special to The Washington Examiner In 1934, the revered Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, in exile to the United States following the Russian Revolution, premiered his iconic Rhapsody on a Theme ...

One of today’s most beloved composers, Rachmaninov battled against public criticism and private insecurities to win favour for his romantic works. What does the name Sergei Rachmaninov conjure up?

In February 2023, at Walt Disney Hall, Classical piano superstar Yuja Wang joined forces with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a sold-out Rachmaninov marathon – all four piano ...

Rachmaninov wrote the most important corpus of concertante works for a single instrument in the 20th century. This statement might still raise an eyebrow in some quarters, but is no longer guaranteed ...

What do American pianist, composer and broadcaster Abram Chasins (1903-87) and Irish pianist Charles Lynch (1906-84) have in common? They both had piano lessons with Rachmaninov. Charles Lynch gave ...

Rachmaninov was one of the greatest pianists the world has ever known, and the music he wrote for the instrument is passionate, sensual and thrilling. His Second Piano Concerto was life-changing, ...