Like the many piano greats before him such as Liszt and Chopin, Rachmaninoff also wrote a series of piano preludes that still remain very popular today. Our first selection, his Prelude in G minor, ...

Written for his friend and 'best man', Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata turned out to be his last chamber work. Around the turn of the 20th Century, Sergei Rachmaninov was still going through the serious ...

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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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opening of Rachmaninov’s “Prelude in C Sharp Minor”, composed when he was 19, is one of the most ...

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Although Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the most successful 20th century composers, he has been snubbed by some musical elitists, even historians. One famous music history book devotes a mere seven ...