Birmingham, AL, USA
Phillips High School Auditorium
Sonata, op. 31
Beethoven
Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue, from Violin Partita in E major
Bach-Rachmaninoff
Rondo in D major
Schubert
Waltz in A flat
Nocturne in F sharp major, op. 15, no. 2
Ballade no. 3 in A flat major, op. 47
Chopin
Intermission
Pour le piano
Debussy
Two Preludes
Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2
Rachmaninoff
Scherzo in A flat major
Borodin
Invitation to the Dance
Weber-Tausig
Rachmaninoff's role
Solo Pianist
Notes
Satina was advised by the ‘Director of the Department of Archives and History of Alabama’ that Rachmaninoff played Beethoven’s Sonata in G major, op. 31, no. 1 at this concert. Satina notes that Rachmaninoff’s wife, who frequently accompanied him on tours, questioned this, but adds ‘we received later 3 printed programs from cities where this sonata has been played’. While Beethoven's Sonata in D minor, op. 31, no. 2, was a frequent inclusion in Rachmaninoff's programs at this time, and the sending of erroneous program information to concert promoters was not unknown, the reference in the attached review of the Birmingham Post-Herald to 'trills' in the first movement perhaps more likely indicates the Sonata in G major, op. 31, no. 1. Further, other review comments might seem to rule out the D minor Sonata; the reference in the review of the Birmingham News to 'A major' is unfortunate. Satina was unaware that a Schumann group was dropped for the works by Chopin. The Schubert Rondo was the final movement of the Sonata, D. 850. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.