London Philharmonic Orchestra; Rachmaninoff: Inside Out

Rachmaninoff: Inside Out
Mayboroda performs Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto

Mozart Symphony No. 36 (Linz)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 (final version)
Dvořák Symphony No. 8

Ilyich Rivas conductor
Dmitry Mayboroda piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra

After the dark clouds and ominous skies of Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, in his Eighth the composer articulated his pleasure of life and enchantment with human existence in the most blissful symphony he wrote – a work overflowing with joyous fanfares and the beauty of the natural world. Things must have seemed pretty rosy to the 17-year-old Rachmaninoff in 1890 too. On the country estate at Ivanovka that summer, visited by three beautiful sisters who demonstrated an insatiable interest in his music, he began work on the first of his piano concertos and delivered an astonishing, impassioned work brimming with confidence and ardour.

In co-operation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation.