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Rachmaninoff

Rach­mani­noff’s Per­for­mance Diary

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RachmaninoffThe Per­for­mance Diary is a Database of all known performances and recordings by Sergei Vasi­lye­vich Rach­mani­noff, and is the result of over a decade of research. It gives an unpar­al­leled insight into the inten­sity of Rachmaninoff’s performing career, and its geographical reach.
In 2006, I gave the research to the Rach­mani­noff Soci­ety, so that the mate­r­ial would have a per­ma­nent and recog­nis­able home, and be free to browse for anyone inter­ested in Rachmaninoff’s extraordinary career.
 
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Rachmaninoff Discovered

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Scott Davie, a pianist and lecturer in Russian music history at the Sydney Conservatorium, recently found an unpublished sketch by Rachmaninoff in the composer’s archives at the Washington Library of Congress.
Whilst researching for his PhD on the composer’s melodies, Davies was amazed to uncover a two page sketch in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s hand, it was hidden in a pile of blank manuscript pages where it had languished for possibly 60 years. Davie was permitted to make a copy, which he brought back to Sydney.

Davie described it as; eclectic, short-form, pictorial, experimental, harmonically unpredictable and modern – in fact, this was possibly the most modern phase of his composing life.

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