program
Vocalise
Sergei
Rachmaninoff
Sergei
Rachmaninoff
All sound clips are from San Francisco Symphony performances and are used with permission of the SFS Players Committee.
Symphonic Dances
Sergei
Rachmaninoff
All sound clips are from San Francisco Symphony performances and are used with permission of the SFS Players Committee.
Podcast
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
All sound clips are from San Francisco Symphony performances and are used with permission of the SFS Players Committee.
Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances
All sound clips are from San Francisco Symphony performances and are used with permission of the SFS Players Committee.
performances
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Event Description
Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills—a far cry from the imperial Russia of his youth. Bolshevism, world war, geopolitical upheaval, and iconoclasm produced a turbulent space through which he carved his path: Romantic, melodic, and sophisticated. Hear the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev in Rachmaninoff’s fiery Symphonic Dances, as well as the towering Second Piano Concerto with the American virtuoso George Li.
