Solo Pianist - Diary entries
Many of the initial performance details listed here were 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, especially substantial research that identified precise program details, 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), 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.
January 17 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The review in the Chicago Tribune suggests that Chopin's Nocturne in D flat major was performed, either along with or replacing a work in the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 19 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 22 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 26 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 30 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 1 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 3 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 5 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the last item (Wagner-Brassin) is speculated. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 7 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the Scarlatti sonatas were not mentioned in the review of this concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 10 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina’s notes are not clear for this concert. While the framework of the program is initially similar to concerts given in Pasadena and Claremont earlier in the month, her addition of a work by Medtner, and a Nocturne by Chopin and Prelude by Rachmaninoff, does not indicate clearly if they are replacing other works, nor their placement. Satina notes that only the Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt was mentioned in the review of the concert, but this does not necessarily mean that the Liebestraum and Valse oubliée were not played. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 15 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 18 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 21 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 23 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 26 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 10 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues, and that the Etudes-Tableaux are a set from op. 33, including C sharp minor, G minor, E flat minor, and E flat major. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 11 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 13 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues. Threlfall and Norris indicate that Rachmaninoff’s transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Bumble Bee was played in this concert, but it didn’t appear in Satina’s version of the program (nor in any other concert). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 14 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues, and that the Etudes-Tableaux are a set from op. 33, including C sharp minor, G minor, E flat minor, and E flat major. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 16 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues, and that the Etudes-Tableaux are a set from op. 33, including C sharp minor, G minor, E flat minor, and E flat major. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 18 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues, and that the Etudes-Tableaux are a set from op. 33, including C sharp minor, G minor, E flat minor, and E flat major. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 20 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues, and that the Etudes-Tableaux are a set from op. 33, including C sharp minor, G minor, E flat minor, and E flat major. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 23 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 2 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues. Satina notes that ‘the programs for these cities were copied from the letters written by Rachmaninoff’s secretary to the managers – Mr J Ysaye and Mr G Eugel.’ LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 8 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is likely that the Chopin Mazurka in F minor is op. 7, no. 3, as it was played this season in other venues. Satina notes that ‘the programs for these cities were copied from the letters written by Rachmaninoff’s secretary to the managers – Mr J Ysaye and Mr G Eugel.’ LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 12 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: According to Satina, a letter that she received from Milan indicates that it was possible that only the Rondo by Chopin was played at this concert. The works by Wagner-Brassin and Paganini-Liszt that was typically closing the European concerts in this season appear to have been replaced by the Kreisler transcription. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 20 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 24 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 26 1937
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.