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.
November 17 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: No program details. Satina indicates that the program of this concert, under the auspices of the Russian Musical Society, featured the famous tenor, Leonid Sobinov, with Rachmaninoff conducting. Satina cites as her reference Apetian’s collection of Rachmaninoff’s letters, op. 434. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 23 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was ‘an evening of Literature and Music in Memory of Ilya Sats’. Satina notes that the artists taking part included ‘Yan-Ruban, Bogoslovsky, Mogilevsky, N. Orloff, Speranasky, Germanova, Kosminsky, O. Knipper, Boleslavsky, Vishnevsky, Kachalov, Louzhsky, Moskvin, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Stanislavsky, Kholov’. The complete program is not known. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 1 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina indicates that this was the 5th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s, op. 35, also indicating that it was the 4th Symphony Concert of Alexander Siloti’s season. Satina also notes that the concert was repeated on December 13, but she was not sure of who conducted it on that occasion. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 14 1913 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina indicates that this is 3rd Symphony Concert in the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 8 1914 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 6th Symphony Concert in the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, beginning at 9pm. Satina also indicates that it was the first performance in Moscow of both Rachmaninoff’s, op. 35, and the works by Roger-Ducasses and Ravel. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 24 1914 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 1 1914 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 7th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, beginning at 9pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 22 1914 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor and Chamber Musician
Notes: Satina indicates that this was the 8th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, beginning at 9pm. The details of the songs are from Martyn. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 25 1914 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 1st concert in the season of the Moscow Branch of the Russian Music Society, given in memory of the late composer, A.K. Lyadov. Satina notes that it was the first performance of Lyadov’s Nénie. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 7 1917 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 2nd Symphony Concert of the season of the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre. While Satina does not give the name of the theatre, Martyn states that it was the Bolshoi in his book (p. 521). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
July 10 1918
Rachmaninoff's role: Schedler Peterson, conductor.
Notes: Satina was unsure exactly regarding the conductor's name. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 8 1939
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the third of three consecutive Sunday evenings devoted to Rachmaninoff’s compositions, promoted as a ‘Rachmaninoff Cycle’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 9 1939
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the third of three consecutive Sunday evenings devoted to Rachmaninoff’s compositions, promoted as a ‘Rachmaninoff Cycle’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 10 1939
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the third of three consecutive Sunday evenings devoted to Rachmaninoff’s compositions, promoted as a ‘Rachmaninoff Cycle’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 13 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina appears to indicate Rachmaninoff’s gratitude for being able to conduct this concert, noting a ‘personal homage to F Stock’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 14 1941
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina appears to indicate Rachmaninoff’s gratitude for being able to conduct this concert, noting a ‘personal homage to F Stock’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.