Nov. 11, 1921: Rachmaninoff sorry he wrote prelude Sergei Rachmaninoff – who many musicians declare is the biggest living composer and the finest pianist in the world today – acknowledges he made his ...

The young Rachmaninov knocked out this pianistic pinnacle aged just 19 years old. Why has it managed to remain a favourite for such a long time? After he emerged from the Moscow Conservatory as a ...

Movies often include a wide variety of music, but classical music isn’t highlighted as often on the silver screen. “Prelude,” however, puts classical music center stage as the film follows a covertly ...

To the unsuspecting listener, it was a breakthrough in recorded sound: For the first time, the sonically flawed piano rolls that George Gershwin (and other pianists of his day) had made in the Roaring ...

He even plays with a STICK on the keys at the end... just wait. 2017 was not only Classic FM's 25th Birthday – the piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons also celebrated their own special anniversary: 25 ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2 was recently voted top of the pops in Classic FM's Hall of Fame, beating the ever-popular The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. It's doubtful whether ...

Rachmaninoff came to London in 1938 and is here pictured at the Piccadilly Hotel Ahead of a BBC Four tribute to composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, a BBC music journalist explains why his music continues to ...

Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play the piano. Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play his "Prelude on C# Minor." ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was a 1930s version of trolling. Disgruntled by his neighbour tediously practising the piano in the ...

Sometimes, a melody is worth 1,000 words — or, in the case of a theater review, about 800. To really get a feel for the tone of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” the latest addition to Hershey Felder’s ...