Trust Vladimir Jurowski to lift a sometimes denigrated work to a higher level. Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 3 has never enjoyed the popularity of its much-loved predecessor, but the care with which ...

Anachronisms, yes. But as anachronisms go, among the best. Rachmaninoff’s third and last symphony was written in 1936. His “Sym phonic Dances” came along four years later. Despite a few passages in ...

The Symphony No. 3 is unmistakably Rachmaninoff — with soaring melodies, shattering climaxes, and the dark rumblings of his signature Dies irae from the Mass for the Dead. But once the clouds have ...

When Sergei Rachmaninoff premiered his Symphony No. 3 in 1936, audiences who remembered his earlier lush orchestrations and melodies thought this new music too modern. Yet modernists of the time ...

It's 20 years since Shine was released, the film that launched Geoffrey Rush on to the Oscar stage, revived the career of its eccentric subject, pianist David Helfgott, and convinced us all that, when ...

Yevgeny Sudbin’s playing has terrific presence in this recording of Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody. The blend of personality and stylistic perception that marks Sudbin’s live performances is also ...

The next concert by the Academy Festival Orchestra begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre. The academy calls this program “Daphnis and Chloe,” after the second work on the ...

The chief reason for investing in this disc would be the fine, lucid, characterful performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony. But Noseda devotes as much care and attention to Prince Rostislav and ...

Stephen Johnson explores Rachmaninov's Third Symphony, which despite having been written far from the composer's homeland, is deeply entrenched in a Russian heritage. Show more The Third Symphony by ...