Conductor - 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, pp. 532-562), A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff by Robert Threlfall and Geoffrey Norris (Scolar Press: London, 1982), and research undertaken at the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.
March 14 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 7th concert in the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Without further details, it might be speculated that the violinist was Karl Grigorovich. Satina indicates that this was the first performance in Moscow (perhaps in Russia) of the work by Elgar. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 18 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this concert was in the series of Kerzin’s Society of the Lovers of Russian Music. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 27 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was part of a charity concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 28 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 8th concert in the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 29 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was part of a charity concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 30 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Kerzin’s Concert Series. It is possible that Liadov's Intermezzo, op. 8, was also performed at this concert.