March 25 1911 (Julian calendar)

St Petersburg, Russia
Assembly of the Nobility, Large Hall
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, op. 31
Rachmaninoff

Chorus of the Mariinsky Opera. 

Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
Satina noted that this was part of Alexander Siloti’s 7th Season of Concerts, also indicating that this was the first complete performance of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. She noted that individual sections had previously been performed a few months earlier, according to notices published in the Russkaya Muzykal’naya Gazeta, which the attached review confirms was in Moscow on November 25 1910. Keldysh (p. 337) indicated that several excerpts were performed at a concert of the Synodal Choir on March 10 1911, which is also confirmed in the review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.