Portland, OR, USA
Civic Auditorium
32 Variations in C minor, WoO. 80
Beethoven
Nachtstück, op. 23
Schumann
Impromptu in F minor
Schubert
Invitation to the Dance
Weber-Tausig
Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff
Nocturne
Ballade
Chopin
Prelude in B minor, op. 32, no. 10
Prelude in A minor, op. 32, no. 8
Rachmaninoff
Sonetto del Petrarca
Rapsodie Espagnole
Liszt
Rachmaninoff's role
Solo Pianist
Notes
While this concert has been noted as the first performance of Rachmaninoff's transcription of the Prelude from Bach's violin partita (for example, Threlfall and Norris, III/1), it is not mentioned in the attached reviews; indeed, the numeration of programmed items that are mentioned would appear to rule it out. Satina has indicated that the Nachtstück is in F major, it is possible that it was either no. 2 or no. 4. She believed the Schubert Impromptu was D. 935, no. 4, while Martyn (p. 434) indicates D. 935, no. 1. The Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca in E major, no. 104, was frequently played in programs in numerous earlier seasons. Chopin’s Nocturne in F sharp major, op. 15, no. 2, and Ballade no. 3 in A flat major, op. 47, were often played in other recitals during this season. A Chopin Mazurka, Rachmaninoff's transcriptions of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee and Mussorgsky's Hopak, and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted among five encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.