The Pittsburgh Symphony’s exploration of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music for piano and orchestra this season has done more than present great pieces. It has also provided the opportunity for audiences to ...

There is nothing “usual” about the programming for this week’s all-Rachmaninov concerts by Seattle Symphony. Not only will principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard explore the musical soil from ...

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 ...

Twenty-two years ago, Olga Kern walked onto the Bass Performance Hall stage in Fort Worth, Texas and sat before a grand piano. Surrounded by violists with raised bows, she began Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...