Diary entries
November 11 1910
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Solo Pianist
Notes: When Rachmaninoff played this concert, the city was known as Königsberg, Germany, and adhered to the Gregorian calendar. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 27 1910 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 4th Anniversary Celebration Concert in the 50th Anniversary of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 28, 1910 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor and Concert Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this performance was in celebration of the 100th Concert given in the Kerzin series, known as the Society of Lovers of Russian Music. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 17 1910 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina records that, perhaps surprisingly given his concert career to date, this is the first complete solo recital given by Rachmaninoff in Russia. It can be imagined that there were other works on the program, yet no details have so far been found. The concert three days later in Nizhny Novgorod, however, might offer a clue. Zarui Apetian believed that this concert occurred on December 19 (Julian), and that the Songs, op. 26, were also performed. It could be that there were two separate concerts. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 20 1910 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 5th concert of the season of the Imperial Russian Music Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 15 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor and Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 6th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 21 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Conductor
Notes: It is not clear whether Mr Khodorovich (about whom there are presently no further details) conducted only for Rachmaninoff’s concerto. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 24 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It could be presumed that other solo works by Rachmaninoff were included.
January 27 1911 (Julian calendar)
Notes: No details. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 14 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: When Rachmaninoff performed in this city it was known as Helsingfors. Without further details, it could be speculated that the conductor Satina refers to is Robert Kajanus. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 10 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician
Notes: Satina notes that this concert was arranged (perhaps by Siloti) in memory of Vera Komissarzhevskaya. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 12 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor and Concert Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 7th Symphony Concert in Alexander Siloti’s season, and that it was the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto in St Petersburg. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 4 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 20 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 21 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 23 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 25 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 28 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that either in this concert, or the one in Warsaw on March 4, Isle of the Dead, op, 29, was also performed. There is no information about who the conductor was, however. Zarui Apetian lists this concert for March 15. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 25 1911 (Julian calendar)
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.
March 29 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 8th Symphony Concert in the season of the Philharmonic Society. Apetian did not include this concert in her list. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician
Notes: Satina notes that her information for this concert in the Felix Corbett series was sent to her by Mr J. Tillet. Satina further notes that in Rachmaninoff’s notebook he wrote that he played ‘only 2 piano solos’, but in a later typewritten comment pondered that it was ‘possible he meant he appeared twice’. While Satina noted the Schubert she didn't indicate Rachmaninoff's participation, yet from a review in the Teeside Weekly Herald from October 21 it is apparent that the performance of Schubert's Rondo in B minor for violin and piano was performed by him with Fritz Kreisler, which would seem to be both the first time the two played together, and the only known time they did so in a public concert. The review appears to clarify that the word 'prelude' was used in a loose way to refer to the pieces in Rachmaninoff's opp. 3 and 10 sets. The exact order of the program is hard to determine from the review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 19 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the Preludes from op. 32 were at the time still not published, and notes ‘first time’ regarding them. Satina also indicates that this was a concert for a Chamber Music Society, the information about which was sent to her by Mr J. Tillett. There is a further comment that ‘the program contained also some songs’, yet it is not clear whether they were by Rachmaninoff, or who performed them. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 24 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that on this occasion the Second Symphony was conducted by Simon Speelman. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 1 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No details, apart from the note by Satina that in Rachmaninoff’s notebook he wrote ‘few piano pieces.’ LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 4 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: No details, apart from the Satina's note that in Rachmaninoff’s notebook he wrote ‘few piano pieces.’ LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.