Diary entries
October 19 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. Tchaikovsky's Troika and Chopin's Waltz in E minor, op. posth., are noted as the encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 20 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. A Chopin waltz, Tchaikovsky's Troika, and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted as the encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 21 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. The attached review notes that Beethoven's Sonata in E flat major, op. 81a was initially advertised, as was a Liszt Transcendental Etude. Tchaikovsky's Troika and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted as the encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 23 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Rachmaninoff’s Variations, op. 42, was not mentioned in the review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 1 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 5 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. The attached press clipping cites Gluck's opera Iphigenia in Aulis, although it appears the same gavotte was used in both works. The Preludes in F sharp minor, op. 23, no. 1, and C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted among the encores in the attached reviews. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 7 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. The attached review indicates that eight encores were played, the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, being the last of them. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 11 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm. 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.
November 12 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm and that this was the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s Oriental Sketch. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 15 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted among the encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 16 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Tchaikovsky's Troika and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted as the encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 17 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Rachmaninoff deviated from the program outlined in the attached press clipping and the attached images in the second half of the recital, substituting works of his own. Tchaikovsky's Troika, and Rachmaninoff's transcriptions of Bizet's Minuet and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee, are noted as the encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 2 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 5 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Fragments from this concert were recorded without Rachmaninoff's knowledge: Brahms Ballade in D minor (bars 145-150), and Liszt Ballade in B minor no. 2 (beginning to bar 125). The recording was made by Bell Telephone Laboratories, and released by Marston Records in 2018. Martyn (p. 445) believed that the recording was made on 3 December but that it didn't survive for posterity, and that Weber was played rather than Brahms. Satina lists the encores as a Mazurka by Chopin, Rachmaninoff's transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee, Troika by Tchaikovsky, and an Etude by Dohnányi. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 10 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: This appears to be the first performance Rachmaninoff gave of the revised version of his Second Piano Sonata. Rachmaninoff's transcriptions of Schubert's The Brooklet ('Wohin?'), Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee, Mussorgsky's Hopak and Bizet's Minuet, along with the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, are noted as the encores in the attached reviews. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 12 1931
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 2.30pm. This appears to have been the second performance Rachmaninoff gave of his revised Second Piano Sonata. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 1 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 2 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 8 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 12 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that the concert began at 2.15pm, and that this was the first performance of the orchestral version of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. The attached review similarly indicates that it was the first Chicago performance of Respighi's orchestration of Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 14 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 15 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 2 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not entirely certain which Gavotte by Gluck (arranged by Ernest Pauer) was played during this season, although Martyn (p. 425) believes that it was from Paris and Helen. Satina indicated that the Strauss-Tausig 'Valse Caprice' listed in the program was probably ‘Man lebt nur einmal’, which is confirmed by one of the attached reviews. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as one of three encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 8 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicated that this concert began at 8.30pm, also writing that the two Gavottes by Gluck-Pauer were probably the same as played in Wilmington on February 2; however one of those was an original composition by Pauer. Satina also noted that this program was part of an ‘Endowment Series’. The reference to Rachmaninoff playing Mozart's sonata 'no. 14' is thought to be an error. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 10 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.15pm, and also notes that Rachmaninoff received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Gold Medal at this concert, which was presented to him by the Duchess of Atholl. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 16 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Stuart Campbell, in 'The Russian Paris of Rachmaninoff' (2013), p. 83, states that the net proceeds from the concert, 45,872 francs, were intended for the Russian unemployed. 2,500 francs were donated to struggling Russian musicians. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina questioned if Chopin's Fantasie was performed at this concert, given that it will be an important piece in numerous later iterations of the program. Its similar lack of mention in the attached reviews, and in the press clipping, indicate that it wasn't included in Toronto. Rachmaninoff's Humoresque, op. 10, no. 5, and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, along with a Chopin mazurka, and are noted as the encores in the attached reviews. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 22 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, two works by Chopin, and Rachmaninoff's transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee, are noted as the encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 24 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as an encore in one of the attached press clippings. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 25 1932
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, a Chopin waltz, and Rachmaninoff's Humoresque, op. 10, no. 5, are noted as the encores in the attached reviews. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.