November 7 1895 (Julian calendar)

This concert was the first part of a tour with the violinist Teresina Tua (Maddalena Maria Teresina Tua, also listed in concert programs of the time as Countess Franchi Verney della Valetta). Satina cited Apetian, p. 126, for the details of cities played on this tour. According to Satina and later sources who relied on her information, Rachmaninoff left the tour in Smolensk on 24 November, however various Russian sources quote reviews and other materials to indicate that Rachmaninoff stayed with the tour until the second concert in Riga on December 5 (the Diary entry for that concert lists the further cities that were originally scheduled). The works performed with Tua have not been noted by Satina, although Martyn indicates that Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, and pieces by Vieuxtemps, Chopin and Sarasate were played (p. 373). Martyn notes further solo piano pieces, as does Keldysh (p. 95), which at various concerts were: Chopin's Berceuse, op. 57, Nocturne in C minor, op. 48, no. 1, an unnamed Waltz, Liszt's Waldesrauschen and Valse-Impromptu, Rubinstein's Barcarolle, Arensky's Barcarolle, the Tchaikovsky-Pabst Concert Paraphrase on 'Eugene Onegin', op. 81, the Gounod-Liszt Waltz from 'Faust', along with Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, Melody, op. 3, no. 3, Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4, and Serenade, op. 3, no. 5. Also noted in reviews was Balakirev's transcription of Glinka's 'The Lark'. The order of the programs (both solo and chamber works) generally is not known, however see the concert in Mogilev on November 17 for a program reconstructed from a press announcement. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.