Diary entries
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 14 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that, while the program for this concert is not known, he played his own works. While Satina did not have further details, Apetian has recorded a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto no. 2 on this occasion. The conductor Nikolai Malko, in his contribution to Apetian's Vospominania [Memories], confirms the concerto, and highlights Rachmaninoff's trademark modesty when working with other musicians, in this instance the conductor of the concert whom Malko describes as 'very weak' (vol. 2, p. 251). 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: Satina's limited information regarding this concert has been confirmed and expanded through a review in Kavkaz on November 12 (p. 3). The review notes that Rachmaninoff played for a capacity audience with many people turned away, and that he played several of his works as encores. A press notice in Kavkaz on the day of the concert indicates the grand piano was supplied by Bechstein. The Hall of the Society of Artists, also referred to as the 'salon' of Elizabeth Orbeliani, appears to have been her home, known as the Orbeliani Palace. This building is now the official home of the Georgian President, located on Atoneli St in central Tbilisi. 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.
November 30 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s, op. 35, indicating that it was the 4th Symphony Concert of Alexander Siloti’s season. Satina also notes that the concert was repeated on December 13, but she was not sure of who conducted it on that occasion. 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.
December 8 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that the proceeds from this recital were given ‘to the needy Students of Moscow Women’s College’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 14 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina indicated that this was the 3rd Symphony Concert in the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. A review in Russkaya Muzikal'naya Gazeta, 1914, No. 1, p. 28, mistakenly refers to Rachmaninoff conducting Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony; the Fourth Symphony is confirmed via an image of the program located on Goskatalog. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 18 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicated that this was the 5th Symphony Concert of Koussevitzky's season. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 21 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this was the 4th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Keldysh (p. 347) believes that the Concerto no. 3, op. 30, was also performed at this concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 10 1914 (Julian Calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Solo Pianist
Notes: Apetian indicates that Rachmaninoff played some of his preludes and etudes-tableaux at this concert, but does not know which. Keldysh (p. 348) believed that Rachmaninoff's Concerto no. 2 was performed at this concert. In the Gregorian Calendar, this date was January 23. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 27 1914
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicated that this was a concert of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, and was aware only of the performance of Rachmaninoff's concerto, which she mistakenly believed was the Third Concerto, op. 30. The further details are according to the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 28 1914
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina provided an insight into Rachmaninoff when she observed the following: ‘in S. Rachmaninoff book it is written that he played January 15, 1914. Mr J. Tillett writes to S.S. that the concert was given January 28. It is correct in both cases, S.R. used apparently the date according to the old calendar’. Satina also notes that it was a recital arranged ‘by the Gentlemen’s Concerts’. This was a 'mixed' concert, at which Esta D'Argo also sang a selection of songs with the accompaniment of R.J. Forbes. The attached reviews indicate that the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, was played, presumably as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 29 1914
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Solo Pianist
Notes: While Mottl's transcription of two movements from Rameau's Concerto in G minor for orchestra alone is not mentioned in the attached reviews, the Hallé Orchestra archive indicates that it was performed. There is discrepancy about which Preludes by Rachmaninoff were played, with the attached press clipping being at odds with the first attached review; the keys and order of the works are given according to the review. The Polka de W.R. is noted as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.