Petersburg in 1897, when he was just 23 years of age, was meant to secure Rachmaninov’s place in the Russian musical firmament. 2. His first symphony could have been a victim of musical politics ...

Alexandre Kantorow joins the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov's Opus 1, his Piano Concerto no 1, written when he was 17 years old. Then the orchestra takes centre stage in ...

Under the strict regime of Zverev, Rachmaninov quickly developed into a formidable player ... For two years he worked on the composition of his First Symphony. The premiere was a disaster: the music ...

Kindest of all, he supported the infirm Alexander Glazunov, a senior figure who had conducted Rachmaninoff’s first symphony in 1897 while drunk, plunging the young composer into three years of ...