Haunted by Old Russia: Rachmaninoff’s lonely final years

Posted 2023-05-23, The Spectator Headlines

Ask a roomful of concert pianists to pick their graveyard moment in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (1909) and they’ll almost certainly point to five or so pages halfway through the last movement where an ant nest of piano notes infests a sparse orchestral threnody. When an elderly Vladimir Horowitz performed this passage –... read full story

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