March 25 1911 (Julian calendar)

St Petersburg, Russia
Assembly of the Nobility, Large Hall
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, op. 31
Rachmaninoff

Chorus of the Mariinsky Opera. 

Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
Satina notes that this was part of Alexander Siloti’s 7th Season of Concerts. Satina also indicates that this was the first complete performance of the work, also noting that individual sections had previously been performed a few months earlier, according to notices published in the Russkaya Muzykal’naya Gazeta. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.