How did Sergei Rachmaninov snag a songwriting credit for a pop ballad written decades after his death? The answer lies in his enduringly popular Piano Concerto No.2... The late American ...

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, ...

Among Sergei Rachmaninoff's grandest musical expressions are his piano concertos, because he conceived them for himself as the soloist. We take you to a concert in Frankfurt to hear Rachmaninoff's ...

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 has been voted the nation’s favourite piece of classical music for the third consecutive year, according to a new poll. The music topped the annual Classic FM Hall Of ...

Fifty years ago, women were not allowed to run in the Boston Marathon due to a myriad of false assumptions about the female anatomy. Sara Mae Berman ran anyway. And, classical music opinionator Fran ...

(The) Isle of the dead Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Kirill Gerstein, Piano Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Kirill Petrenko, Conductor ...

“There’s an old Russian expression,” said pianist Behzod Abduraimov. “It goes, ‘the new way is the well-forgotten old way.’ ” Abduraimov was talking about his approach to Sergei Rachmaninov’s ...

There's a special reason for pairing these two Russian piano concertos; not only were Rachmaninov and Nikolai Medtner life-long friends, but they dedicated the works, both composed in the mid-1920s, ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Lang Lang, Piano Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Kirov ...