Diary entries
March 20 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: While the attached reviews and press clipping refer to Mozart's 'Sonata no. 14', the tempo indication for the final movement suggests that this was an error that has been noted at other venues, presumably a result of incorrect information being forwarded by Rachmaninoff's management. The Scarlatti Sonata in D minor is presumably L. 413, which he recorded. Tchaikovsky's Troika and Rachmaninoff's transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee are noted as the encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 21 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the keys for the Chopin works were the same as performed in similar programs in Cleveland, Boston and New York. The Scarlatti Sonata in D minor is presumably L. 413, which he recorded. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 23 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The details for the Chopin works were not known to Satina, however the attached review indicates that the pieces were the same as performed in similar programs in Cleveland, Boston and New York. The Scarlatti Sonata in D minor is presumably L. 413, which he recorded. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as the first of two encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 3 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes the word ‘manuscript’ for the piece by Medtner, likely indicating that it was unpublished at the time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 4 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes the word ‘manuscript’ for the piece by Medtner, likely indicating that it was unpublished at the time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 6 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes the word ‘manuscript’ for the piece by Medtner, likely indicating that it was unpublished at the time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 7 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes the word ‘manuscript’ for the piece by Medtner, likely indicating that it was unpublished at the time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 10 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording
Notes: This session occurred on the same day as the recording of the 1st and 2nd movements of the Second Piano Concerto in Philadelphia, PA, although it is not known which took place first.
April 10 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording
Notes: Recorded at the Academy of Music.
April 13 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording
Notes: Recorded at the Academy of Music.
October 19 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 22 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 24 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 28 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 29 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 3 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: A Chopin waltz and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted in the attached review as two of three encores given at this concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 5 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The program that Satina believed was played here was different to that outlined in The Scotsman in its review on November 6. Regarding Rachmaninoff's works, she understood that the Melody, op. 3, no. 3, Barcarolle, op. 10, no. 3, and a Moment musical were played, and that Liszt's Etude in D flat major appeared where the 'third' Sonetto del Petrarca was played. The review notes a Chopin Waltz in A flat major 'which is not often played in public', and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, were played as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 6 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina's notes included slightly different works by Chopin and Rachmaninoff for this concert, however they have been corrected in accordance with the program that appears in the second attached press clipping. No review of this concert has yet been located. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 7 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina noted that this concert was part of an ‘International Celebrity Series’. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as an encore in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 13 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina believed that different works by Rachmaninoff were played (the Serenade, op. 3, no. 5, and one of the A minor Etudes-Tableaux), however the attached review refers to the works noted here. Satina also believed that two Wagner transcriptions closed the concert, however they are not mentioned in the review. It may be presumed the Moment musical was op. 16, no. 2. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, Chopin's E minor Waltz, and Rachmaninoff's transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee are noted as the encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 14 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina was unaware of the work by Medtner on the program, and mistakenly included transcriptions of Liszt at the close. Reviews in the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph outline the program in detail, with one noting that a work by Chopin and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, were played as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89. The images of the Dundee Evening Telegraph and Dundee Courier used with kind permission of DC Thomson & Co Ltd.
November 15 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 18 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: This was the first performance of the 1928 version of Rachmaninoff's Fourth Piano Concerto. The precise details of the Haydn symphony are unknown. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 19 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicated that this concert was part of the ‘International Celebrity Series’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1929
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicated that this concert was part of the ‘International Celebrity Series’. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as the encore in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.