Moscow, Russia
'Spring', op. 20
Rachmaninoff
A.V. Smirnov, baritone.
Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
Threlfall and Norris note the first performance of Rachmaninoff's cantata 'Spring', op. 20, on this date, but indicate that Ziloti conducted. Yet Keldysh (p. 203) believed that the composer conducted, citing press reviews. Specifically, from Moskovskiye Vedomosti on March 13: 'Despite Rachmaninoff's confident conducting, noted in the press reviews, it [the performance of 'Spring'] was not entirely successful'. It might be that Ziloti conducted the other works on the program.