Abstract
The Performance Diary is a catalogue of all known performances and recordings by Russian composer, pianist and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff. It has been compiled with the generous assistance of the Rachmaninoff Network and the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation.
The current website is the third edition of the project, which first appeared in 2011 and was later comprehensively updated in 2017. The current version was published in 2023, and incorporates over 20 years of research. The previous versions presented specific program data for Rachmaninoff’s work as a conductor, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and in gramophone and piano roll recording sessions, almost all of which had been published. In regard to his prolific career as a solo pianist, in the main only the location and dates of performances had been known. My chance discovery of research undertaken by Rachmaninoff’s sister-in-law, Dr Sophia Satina, in the Rachmaninoff Archive of the Library of Congress (LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89) has now augmented the catalogue. Through writing to concert halls, libraries, and newspapers around America and Europe, she worked to ascertain specific program details for Rachmaninoff's many recitals, her guiding source being a notebook he carried with him from 1907. The Rachmaninoff Performance Diary is an ongoing project, and anyone with an image of a program, a review, or other material is welcome to contribute to my research.
The current website is the third edition of the project, which first appeared in 2011 and was later comprehensively updated in 2017. The current version was published in 2023, and incorporates over 20 years of research. The previous versions presented specific program data for Rachmaninoff’s work as a conductor, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and in gramophone and piano roll recording sessions, almost all of which had been published. In regard to his prolific career as a solo pianist, in the main only the location and dates of performances had been known. My chance discovery of research undertaken by Rachmaninoff’s sister-in-law, Dr Sophia Satina, in the Rachmaninoff Archive of the Library of Congress (LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89) has now augmented the catalogue. Through writing to concert halls, libraries, and newspapers around America and Europe, she worked to ascertain specific program details for Rachmaninoff's many recitals, her guiding source being a notebook he carried with him from 1907. The Rachmaninoff Performance Diary is an ongoing project, and anyone with an image of a program, a review, or other material is welcome to contribute to my research.
| Original language | English |
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| Type | Database of all performance activities of Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Media of output | Online database |
| Publisher | www.rachmaninoffdiary.com |
| Place of Publication | Australia |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Aug 2023 |