Solo Pianist - Diary entries
Many of the initial performance details listed here were compiled from Zarui Apetian’s important research, published in Literaturnoye Nasledie [Collected Literature] (Sovietskii Kompozitor: Moscow, 1980, vol. 3, pp. 439-467). These details have been subsequently cross-referenced and checked with the many itineraries and other corroborating materials, especially substantial research that identified precise program details, collected by Rachmaninoff’s sister-in-law, Sophia Satina, housed in the Rachmaninoff Archive of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R22, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89). Further information has been gathered from Barrie Martyn’s book Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor (Scolar Press: London, 1990), A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff by Robert Threlfall and Geoffrey Norris (Scolar Press: London, 1982), and research undertaken at the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.
March 19 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 21 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
June 30 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina was unable to find any details of this concert, but Apetian believed is was a 'mixed concert' in which Rachmaninoff played 5 works, the names of which she did not know. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 11 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 14 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that a review of the concert appeared to be incomplete, mentioning only the Beethoven and the Mendelssohn, but in relation to works by Rachmaninoff mentioning two Etudes-Tableaux. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 15 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Grieg’s ‘On the mountains’ was perhaps played, as in previous concerts with a similar program, and Rachmaninoff appears to have played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, rather than the Etudes-Tableaux. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 16 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Rachmaninoff apparently played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and his Barcarolle, op. 10, no. 3, instead of the two works listed in the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 18 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Grieg’s ‘On the mountains’ was perhaps played, as in other concerts with a similar program at this time, and Rachmaninoff appears to have played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, rather than the Etudes-Tableaux listed in the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 22 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Rachmaninoff apparently played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and his Barcarolle, op. 10, no. 3, instead of the two works listed in the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 23 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 24 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Rachmaninoff’s Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, was apparently added to the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 26 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Rachmaninoff’s Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, was apparently added to the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 28 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina writes that Rachmaninoff apparently played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and his Barcarolle, op. 10, no. 3, instead of the two works listed in the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina writes that Rachmaninoff apparently played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and his Barcarolle, op. 10, no. 3, instead of the two works listed in the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 3 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 5 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 8 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, was played in the bracket of his own works, but does not indicate its precise placement. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 10 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 15 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Rachmaninoff apparently played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and his Barcarolle, op. 10, no. 3, instead of the two works listed in the program. This is also supported by the reviews from the Evening Star and Washington Herald. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 19 1920
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 6 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 8 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 10 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 12 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 14 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 16 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina does not offer any information about what she terms 'Praeludium' by JS Bach, a work which does not appear on any similar programs Rachmaninoff was playing at the time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 18 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that a Mazurka by Chopin was played as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 24 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 25 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 30 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.