Type: Piano Solos
Pianist: Michail Pletnev, Denis Matsuev
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Year: 1998

Featuring the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov, and Denis Matsuev this program was connected with the 2013 Annecy Classic Festival and includes Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, solo piano pieces, and Symphonic Dances. Rachmaninov’s music represents the final great flowering of Russian Romanticism: sweeping melodies and dark nostalgia. A brilliant pianist, composer, and conductor, his hard life was marked by exile after the Russian Revolution, homesickness, yet fame.