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.
November 5, 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina noted that Apetian believed that this concert occurred on November 2. While Satina was informed by Rachmaninoff's notebook listing, the date is confirmed by a review that appeared in the Russkaya Muzikal'naya Gazeta, 1912, no. 2, p. 69. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 14 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The details for this concert are according to Andrianova-Ryadnova's memoirs of Rachmaninoff in Georgia.
November 30 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: This incomplete program has been partially reconstructed from the attached review, which appeared in the Rigasche Zeitung on December 1. I am grateful to J. Falleyn for forwarding this review to me.
December 5 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina describes how this program was ‘reconstructed from the newspaper Retch by Mrs E Somoff.’ Satina further indicates, though, that while she initially believed it may be incomplete she has ‘checked and corrected by using Alexander Siloti’s 10th Anniversary Book’. The concert was the 2nd concert of the non-subscription series of Siloti’s 9th Season of Concerts. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 13 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the ‘2nd Chamber Music Extra Concert’ of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. From Satina’s notes, it is not clear if the order of works in this concert is correct, or indeed if the program is complete. She further notes that Preludes in the keys of G minor, G sharp minor, D flat major, and B minor were performed. Keldysh, however, indicates that the program was the same as in St Petersburg on December 5 (p. 338). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 5 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. Satina also believes that in many cities at this time he would have played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 6 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. Satina also believes that in many cities at this time he would have played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 8 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. Satina also believes that in many cities at this time he would have played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 10 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. Satina also believes that in many cities at this time he would have played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. When Rachmaninoff performed in this city, it was known in Russia as Libava. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 11 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: While Satina was unable to find details for this concert, the program has been partially reconstructed from the attached review. I am grateful to J. Falleyn for sending me his translation of the review from the Rigasche Rundschau, which appeared the day after the concert. The program appears comparable to that given at the concert in St Petersburg on November 23. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 13 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. Satina also believes that in many cities at this time he would have played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 16 1913 (Julian Calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. Satina also believes that in many cities at this time he would have played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. While most parts of Poland had abandoned the Julian calendar by this time, Satina has listed the date according to the Gregorian Calendar, which was October 16. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 17 1913 (Julian Calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina cites as her reference for details of this concert Apetian (p. 480), and listed the date according to the Julian calendar, as also appears in Bertensson and Leyda (p. 186). In the Gregorian Calendar, this date was October 30. Keldysh (p. 347) indicates that The Rock, op. 7, was also performed in this concert, yet a photograph of the program a few pages later in his book does not include this work. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 19 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 21 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 22 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. The Moldovan capital is also known as Kishinev. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 24 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 25 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 26 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 28 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. When Rachmaninoff performed in this city, it was known as Yekaterinoslav. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 30 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 31 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 1 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 3 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. When Rachmaninoff played in this city it was known as Ekaterinodar. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 7 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 9 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Which Etudes-Tableaux, or how many, is not known, as is also the case for the Preludes. An interesting anecdote, although perhaps apocryphal, concerns Stepan Mirzoev, the director of the Tbilisi branch of the Russian Music Society. He claimed that he persuaded Rachmaninoff to sell him the piano that he toured with, which later was sold to the Tbilisi Conservatory where it apparently still resides. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 13 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 17 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that in this concert he would have played his own works. In other programs of this time, he frequently played his Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 23 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this was Alexander Siloti’s 3rd concert of the season. Satina also indicates that it was the first time that the Sonata no. 2, and the Polka de WR, were heard in St Petersburg. A reference to Apetian is cited, p. 442. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 3 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this was Alexander Siloti’s 3rd concert of the season. Satina also indicates that it was the first time that the Second Piano Sonata, and the Polka de WR, were heard in Moscow. A reference to Apetian is cited, p. 442. Threlfall and Norris claimed that this was the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s Sonata no. 2, however previous dates on this tour for which program details are known indicate this not to be the case. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.