Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 by ...

The Pittsburgh Symphony’s exploration of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music for piano and orchestra this season has done more than present great pieces. It has also provided the opportunity for audiences to ...

Based on what he has played, and is playing this weekend, with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, you'd think pianist Norman Krieger only took on super-size concertos. In his two previous appearances ...

“The first week of January can be difficult to bring people into a concert hall,” says Seattle Symphony Orchestra music director Ludovic Morlot. If it takes a particularly attractive and artistically ...

Seldom do you hear such an explosion of absolute joy at the end of a Seattle Symphony concert. On Thursday evening, the usually decorous audience leapt out of their seats for a shouting, hooting, ...

Pianist Conrad Tao "Rach"-ed the room Saturday night at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance Hall. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, nicknamed the "Rach 3," is billed as possibly the ...

STRAVINSKY described his friend Sergei Rachmaninoff as “a 6 1/2 -foot scowl.” In music critic Harold C. Schonberg’s book “The Great Pianists,” the chapter devoted to Rachmaninoff is titled “The ...

When Yibing Zhang, the 2017 winner of the Dallas International Piano Competition, performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor on May 1 at the Moody Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts ...

It’s not hyperbole to say that Rachmaninoff is in Russian-American pianist Olga Kern‘s DNA. “I play Rachmaninoff all my life,” said the 50-year-old Kern, who will play the composer’s Piano Concerto No ...