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 ...

In a Q interview, the award-winning Canadian pianist explains how classical compositions are like different desserts.

April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play his “Prelude on C# Minor.” This is an Ampico Recording, Preludes C-sharp Minor by Rachmaninoff, played by the composer. Played by the ...

Philadelphia Youth Orchestra welcomes violist Dillon Scott, PYO ’22 & current student of Curtis Institute of Music, as he returns as soloist for Bartók’s expressive Viola Concerto. The program ...

Tucked away between trees at the Cumberland Avenue end of World's Fair Park is a statue of Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, a man with seemingly no connection to Knoxville. As it ...

Featuring Rachmaninoff’s most beautiful music including the Second Piano Concerto, the Paganini Variations, Preludes, and Symphonic Selections, Rachmaninoff And The Tsar, will have Felder in the role ...

“Only the anachronism has a chance to outlast the epoch,” the Austrian author Franz Werfel wrote, in the early nineteen-forties. At a time of dizzying cultural change, Werfel saw a hidden advantage in ...

Dan Prior as Rachmaninoff talks about his writer's block with Aimee Doherty as his therapist in "Preludes" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston. (Courtesy Mark S. Howard) Sergei Rachmaninoff’s mind is ...

The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the composer in 1993 were extraordinary. Glass happened to be in his kitchen ...

I want to say a special word about Dave Malloy’s “Preludes,” because it is the work of an artist who is not afraid to try things, or to create worlds that haven’t necessarily been seen before, and, ...