Concerto Soloist - Diary entries
Many of the performance details listed here have been compiled from Zarui Apetian’s important research, published in Literaturnoye Nasledie [Collected Literature] (Sovietskii Kompozitor: Moscow, 1980, vol. 3, pp. 439-467). These details have been subsequently cross-referenced and checked with the many itineraries and other corroborating materials collected by Rachmaninoff’s sister-in-law, Sophia Satina, housed in the Rachmaninoff Archive of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R22, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89). Further information has been gathered from Barrie Martyn’s book Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor (Scolar Press: London, 1990), and A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff by Robert Threlfall and Geoffrey Norris (Scolar Press: London, 1982).
February 28 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert commenced at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 2 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 17 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto, and that the concert began at 2.30pm. The attached article promoting the final version of the concerto mentions performances in cities including Cleveland, however this did not occur. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto, and that the concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 21 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the third version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 22 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that these were the first performances of the second revised version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 6 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 7 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 11 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that in the program the symphony was mistakenly listed no. 3. The concert began at 8.45pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 28 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: It is not clear which symphony was played. Satina’s notes are quite clear, however the indication of key is at odds both with Schumann’s unfinished ‘Zwickau’ Symphony in G minor, and Schubert’s Symphony no. 8 in B minor. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: It is not clear which symphony was played. Satina’s notes are quite clear, however the indication of key is at odds both with Schumann’s unfinished ‘Zwickau’ Symphony in G minor, and Schubert’s Symphony no. 8 in B minor. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 4 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 18 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 8.15pm, and was the Gala Centennial Season. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 19 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert began at 2.30pm, and was the Gala Centennial Season. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 8 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that while this was not the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45, these performances came within a week of it. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 10 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that while this was not the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45, these performances came within a week of it. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 12 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 13 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
May 9 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was a concert given by the University Music Society, and that the concert began at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
July 17 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
July 18 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 17 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45 in New York, and that the concert began at 8.45pm. According to the review, a transcription by the conductor of a work by Bach was also heard. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 18 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was Rachmaninoff’s last appearance in New York, and that the concert began at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 11 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 12 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was Rachmaninoff’s last appearance as a concerto soloist. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.