Concerto Soloist - Diary entries
Many of the performance details listed here have been 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 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), and A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff by Robert Threlfall and Geoffrey Norris (Scolar Press: London, 1982).
January 10 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 12 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 7 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 8 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 14 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert commenced at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 15 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 27 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 8.45pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 28 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert commenced at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 2 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: One of the attached reviews notes Rachmaninoff played Tchaikovsky's Troika as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 17 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto, and that the concert began at 2.30pm. The attached press clipping advertises future performances in Cleveland and Chicago, however these did not occur. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto, and that the concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 21 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 22 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 6 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 7 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 11 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that in the program the symphony was mistakenly listed no. 3. The concert began at 8.45pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 28 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The attached review from the Pittsburgh Press indicates that this was Rachmaninoff's first performance of the Schumann Concerto. The review from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette unfortunately is flawed, and the negative comments by the reviewer about the Schumann Concerto are indecipherable. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The concert began at 3pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 4 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina believed that Brahms' Symphony closed the concert, however both the attached review and press clipping indicate that Rachmaninoff's performance of the Schumann Concerto was heard last. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 18 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 8.15pm, and was the Gala Centennial Season. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 19 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 2.30pm, and was the Gala Centennial Season. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 8 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that while this was not the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45, these performances came within a week of it. She believed that the work closed the program, however the attached review appears to suggest the concerto was heard last. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 10 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that while this was not the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45, these performances came within a week of it. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 12 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 13 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
May 9 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was a concert given by the University Music Society, and that the concert began at 2.30pm. The Prelude in G major, op. 32, no. 5, is noted as an encore after the concerto in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
July 17 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The second attached review indicates that Jascha Heifetz and his wife were among the audience. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
July 18 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 17 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina has written that this was the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45 in New York, however as the review correctly notes the work had been heard the previous season with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The concert began at 8.45pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.