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There’s novelty and freshness from pianists Behzod Abduraimov and Julien Libeer. Elsewhere, a mystery podcast presenter… • Sergei Rachmaninov, in exile in Switzerland, built his Villa Senar near Lake Lucerne in 1932, its style reminiscent of his home in southern Russia. Two important compositions were written there: the popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Third Symphony. In Rachmaninov in Lucerne (Sony), the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Gaffigan, in his last season as chief conductor, performs both, with generous spirit and expansive, romantic phrasing. The novelty is that the Uzbek pianist
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-08-14 20:08:02
Denis Matsuev in Senar (Rachmaninoff’s villa in Switzerland). With English subtitles.
2019-02-04 07:00:02
Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony: Freedom in Exile
Sergei Rachmaninov spent much of his life in exile, both literally and as a composer. In December of 1917 at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov and his wife, Natalia, fled Russia, eventually building their Villa Senar on the idyllic shores of Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne. It was here that Rachmaninov composed the Symphony No. 3 in A minor during the summers of 1935 and 1936. His work on this final symphony was interrupted by an ...
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-06-17 14:01:28
Breaking: Russia cannot afford to buy Rachmaninov’s house
Blaming international sanctions and domestic economic difficulties, the Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky has abandoned his attempt to purchase the composer’s Swiss lakeside home, named Senar, for the Russian nation. The purchase had been ordered by President Putin on the advice of the pianist Denis Matsuev, at an estimated price of 17 million Swiss francs. Vladimir Medinsky had also talked of repatriating Rachmaninov’s remains from America. But after all the huff and puff, it appears that both plans are unrealistic, Medinsky said today. The rouble has fallen, the cost of Lucerne property has risen, the ownership structure is ‘complex’ and sanctions are really starting to bite. Rest in peace, Sergei Vasilievitch.
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