Rachmaninoff 150 - A Celebration: Ep 13, The Bells

20 PODCASTS WITH PERFORMANCES AND DISCUSSION BY ACCLAIMED ARTISTS

No 13: The Bells
This podcast covers the work that Rachmaninoff felt was the favourite of all his compositions: the cantata The Bells. There is commentary from Sir Antonio Pappano.

In these 20 Podcasts celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth, acclaimed international musicians discuss and perform his compositions, and two of his distinguished biographers also discuss some of the composer’s most innovative creations. Additionally, the composer’s grandson, Alexander Rachmaninoff, remembers his grandfather, and Rachmaninoff himself is also heard performing some of his works.

Rachmaninoff 150 – A Celebration is a collaborative production between the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation (www.rachmaninoff.ch), Decca Classics (www.deccaclassics.com), which has issued all the music Rachmaninoff composed on the 32 CD box set, “Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Complete Works”, and the WFMT Radio Network (www.wfmt.com), which is syndicating a 1 hour radio documentary that is adapted from these podcasts.

Speakers in these features are:

Sean Botkin - Pianist
Philip Bullock – Author of“Rachmaninoff and His World”
Hélène Grimaud – Pianist
Peter Jablonski – Pianist
Vladimir Jurowski – Conductor
Sergei Leiferkus – Baritone
Andrea Loetscher – Director of the Villa Senar Cultural and Educational Centre
Nicolai Lugansky – Pianist
Geoffrey Norris – Author of “Rachmaninoff – The Master Musicians Series”
Gianandrea Noseda – Conductor
Garrick Ohlsson – Pianist
Sir Antonio Pappano – Conductor and Pianist
Mikhail Pletnev – Conductor and Pianist
Alexander Rachmaninoff – Grandson of Sergei Rachmaninoff
Joan Rodgers - Soprano

Philip Bullock is heard by kind permission of baritone Thomas Hampson’s Hampsong Foundation: hampsongfoundation.org/

Rachmaninoff’s Letters are read by Kerry Frumkin

The host and producer of the podcasts is Jon Tolansky.

Rachmaninoff 150 - A Celebration: Ep 13, The Bells

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