Composer of the Week - Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) - Episode 4

Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov's life and work. He focuses on Rachmaninov's life-long friendship with Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin, and the composer's first concert tour of America. There he performed his specially-written Third Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by their new music director Gustav Mahler. In the Soul of Each of Us (14 Songs, op 34 - 1912) Sergei Leiferkus (bass) Howard Shelley (piano) Chandos CHAN 9477 track 3 Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30 (1909) - 1st mvt Earl Wild (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Jascha Horenstein (conductor) Chandon CHAN 8521/2 CD 2 track 4 Dissonance (14 Songs, Op 34 - 1912) Joan Rodgers (soprano) Howard Shelley (piano) Chandos CHAN 9477 track 14 Magnificat (Vespers, Op 37 - 1915) St Petersburg Chamber Choir Nikolai Korniev (conductor) Philips 442 344-2, track 11 Etudes-Tableaux, Op 39 (1916) - Nos 1, 2, 5 and 6 Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) Chandos CHAN 10391 tracks 9, 10, 13, 14.