Sergei Prokofiev in New York City - 19 October, 1919
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 19 October 1919, page 429:
Rachmaninoff's concert, the first this season. He played a Beethoven sonata magnificently, Chopin not so well, and after that Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso and three waltzes, by Chopin, himself, and from Gounod's Faust. If he had played a programme like that in Russia they would have thrown a dead cat at him. Of his own things only one Etude Tableau, very good indeed. Rachmaninoff preserves an Olympian detachment; some things he plays wonderfully, others like a block of wood, but his programme sell audiences short. In me he arouses a strange … more >>
http://data.open.ac.uk/led/person/Sergey+Prokofiev/1450307447086, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 19 October 1919, p. 429. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1452211720331 accessed: 12 December, 2024
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Etude Tableau
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Rondo Capriccioso
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Three Waltzes
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Charles Gounod, Chopin |
performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Piano Sonata
written by Ludwig van Beethoven |
performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 19 October, 1919 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |