Russia never gets enough credit for its generosity, having donated so many of the best and brightest to the rest of the world for well over a century. Nabokov, Nureyev, Solzhenitsyn, countless ...

To the haunting, wordless, and ethereal sound of solo soprano accompanied by a caressing orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise ushers us into a lush garden of birch trees bordered by flowers, two ...

When the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia with his wife and two daughters at the end of 1917, he left behind all his works except the recently revised Piano Concerto No. 1 and the vocal score ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

Sometimes, a melody is worth 1,000 words — or, in the case of a theater review, about 800. To really get a feel for the tone of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” the latest addition to Hershey Felder’s ...

Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play his “Prelude on C# Minor.” This is an Ampico Recording, Preludes C-sharp Minor by Rachmaninoff, played by the composer. Played by the ...

In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal body dies upstairs. This is the world of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, the ...

Hershey Felder’s critically acclaimed series of composer plays has been a goldmine for Theatreworks Silicon Valley since their inception back in 1998 with George Gershwin Alone. Since then, he’s ...

Stages is bringing one of classical music’s most beloved composers back from beyond the grave in “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” a portrayal of Sergei Rachmaninoff during his final days as he recalls, ...

British-Iranian pianist Arsha Kaviani makes his Royal Albert Hall debut with the electrifying finale of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2. Full of fire and romantic intensity, the third movement is ...

The pianist Arthur Rubinstein once found himself invited to dinner in Hollywood with the Rachmaninoffs and the Stravinskys. Russia’s greatest living composers had never met before, and conversation ...