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 2 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was a ‘Symphony Concert for Young People’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 19 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Wagner made an arrangement of the Wesendonck Lieder song for solo violin and orchestra in late 1858, which is what is presumed to have been programmed here. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 20 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina believed that the program for this concert was the same as featured in New York on January 1 and 2, with the music of Schubert, Casella, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. However, as the attached reviews indicate, it was the same as given the previous day in Baltimore. Wagner made an arrangement of the song from the Wesendonck Lieder for solo violin in 1858. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 27 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The concert commenced at 8.30pm. The second attached review mistakenly refers to Rachmaninoff's 'First' Piano Concerto, rather than the Third. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 28 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The concert commenced at 8.30pm. Satina believed that the program of the previous day had been repeated in this concert but, apart from Rachmaninoff's op. 30, the other works were different. The exact order of the program is not known. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 10 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was part of a series called ‘The Historic Cycle’, with this concert dedicated to works by Russian Composers. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 11 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was part of a series called ‘The Historic Cycle’, with this concert dedicated to works by Russian Composers. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 24 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 13 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 15 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 1 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The exact order of the program was not clear to Satina, nor the specific details of Mozart's Symphony in G minor. However, the reviews appear to support the program order, and Mozart's symphony appears to have been no. 40, K. 550. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 2 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 15 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The presence of Richard Strauss in the audience is noted in the reviews. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 16 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina listed the Symphony by Dvořák as no. 5 in the key of E minor, as it was numbered at the time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 9 1922
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 10 1922
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 2 1922
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that the proceeds from this concert, which commenced at 8.15pm, were to be sent to ‘music artists and men of letters in Russia through ARA’. Mrs Rachmaninoff served as the committee Chairman, Mrs F Steinway was the Treasurer, and Miss D Rybner was the Secretary. As the attached review from The New York Times indicates, $7,100 was raised, and Rachmaninoff played his Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and his Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1922
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 1 1922
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 1 1923
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 2 1923
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 16 1923
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The attached reviews indicate that Rachmaninoff did not play an encore at this concert, much to the consternation of the audience. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 18 1923
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 29 1923
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 31 1923
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 11 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina and Apetian were uncertain about the program, especially in regard to the concerto, however clarity has been provided courtesy of the attached reviews. The conductor appears to have led a Proms concert later the same evening, featuring different repertoire and artists. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicated that the program order is not known, and that a work by Chabrier was included - this is also noted very briefly in the attached review. She also indicated that the Preludes in G minor and B flat major, op. 23, were played as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 2 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was an afternoon concert, and that it was the first performance of the work by Aubert in New York. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 3 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.