Symphonic Dances Sergei Rachmaninov
The work
‘Over six feet of scowl’ was how fellow émigré Igor Stravinsky described Sergei Rachmaninov, not without reason. During his lifetime, Rachmaninov had plenty to feel miserable about. However, his music tells a different story. While there is always an underlying and often undisguised melancholy in everything he wrote, there is never any trace of self-pity.
Something unmistakably new had appeared in Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances
A career as a composer and acclaimed piano virtuoso
