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Many years ago, in another century, in what feels like another lifetime (though was merely the 1990s) I used to edit a piano magazine. It wa...

Boris Giltburg had a free evening in London. So he called Stewart French and asked him to film him playing Rachmaninov's Op.39 Etudes-Ta...

Interesting info re the spelling of Serge(i) Rachmaninov/ff has been popping into the in-box since my post the other day , so here's wha...

This is the radio broadcast from Voice of Russia UK in which Rustem Hayroudinoff and I talk to Alice Lagnado for Curtain Up about reaping ...

The trouble with burning the candle at both ends is that while you're out and about, you're not writing. Therefore JDCMB is a little...

How do you fill a large hall for 20th-century repertoire? Play Rachmaninov. Composers who lived through these turbulent and violent times bu...

T'other day I was out shopping when the girl behind the counter, returning my credit card, handed me a gift of a Christmas cracker cover...

This is a huge favourite of mine: Alexander Goldenweiser and Grigory Ginzburg play the Valse from Rachmaninov's Suite No.2 for two piano...

But need it for an appropriate expletive in response to this alarming story reported by Matthew Guerrieri yesterday, with a link to the Ari...

Blimey! The missing manuscript of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony has turned up, in a Co-op bag. Geoffrey Norris authenticated it and has ...