The Clarion Choir and its Artistic Director Steven Fox make their PENTATONE debut with a recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's choral masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil, demonstrating their exceptional ...

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Courtesy of the artist’s website. Happy birthday, Rachmaninov! Because Rachmaninov’s birthday and our Spring Break lined up so nicely, it’s obviously the perfect opportunity ...

Rising Star pianist Amiri Harewood plays the 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninov's texturally-rich romantic work, 'Rhapsody ...

Join CPR Classical on-air hosts at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder on Friday, July 7 at 6:30 p.m. to hear what is often referred to as the "Mt. Everest" of piano concertos - the Piano Concerto #3 by ...

Heino Eller was described as the ‘Estonian Sibelius’ in the first decades of the last century. Predictably, the career of this versatile composer, musicologist and teacher didn't thrive during the ...

I’m the only person I know who rates Walton’s Symphony No. 2 as highly as his first, and I’m probably also out on a limb in enjoying Rachmaninov’s concise 3rd Symphony as much as its heftier ...

Today sees the release of new albums from Jean Johnson and Steven Osborne, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Bleuse, Boris Giltburg and more ...

Viewers of the movie Shine, the story of the Australian pianist David Helfgott, will remember the central place in the film occupied by a piece of music: The Piano Concerto No. 3 (in D minor, Op. 30) ...

April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

You can tell by the wild cheering emanating from Benaroya Hall: Thomas Dausgaard is back in town. The Seattle Symphony’s highly popular principal guest conductor led the first of three all-Rachmaninov ...

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 has been revealed as Britain's favourite piece of classical music – beating Vaughan Williams for the second year in a row. The Russian composer's piece came out on ...