Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, filled with dark-chocolate harmonies, has been seducing newcomers to classical music for a century. No wonder its melodies have also cropped up in movies and pop songs.

It’s hard to imagine Sergei Rachmaninoff getting the short end of the stick today. The pianist-composer, whose 150th birthday would have been last month, is an assured presence on symphony programs ...

In this concert, Houston Civic Symphony will perform Tann's The Open Field: In memoriam Tiananmen Square and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27.

Hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies examine a hidden gem by Mozart contemporary Joseph Martin Kraus and Beethoven's fusion of different forms and genres, the 'Choral Fantasy,' featuring pianist ...

Rachmaninoff’s rapturous and romantic Symphony No. 2 unfurls a never-ending cascade of characteristically lush, opulent melodies, each one bound to speak directly to the heart. Principal Harp Megan ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This is Petrenko’s best recording to date. Without stretching the tempo, indulging in sentiment or clogging the ...

There is nothing “usual” about the programming for this week’s all-Rachmaninov concerts by Seattle Symphony. Not only will principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard explore the musical soil from ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An autograph manuscript score of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 that had been presumed lost for half a century will be sold at auction in May, Sotheby's said on Thursday. The ...

The San Diego Symphony concluded its Jacobs Masterworks Series with a weekend of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven. I attended the Saturday, May 25 concert. This was the third time I’d heard the Rachmaninoff ...

Sarah Devonald recommends a recording of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A minor from among available versions. A gap of nearly three decades separates Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony from its ...

Rachmaninov’s First Symphony of 1895 is a tricky work to bring off. The composer never got around to revising it, though he expressed an inclination to do so, and it has remained one of those ...

Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, filled with dark-chocolate harmonies, has been seducing newcomers to classical music for a century. No wonder its melodies have also cropped up in movies and pop songs.