Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast by Joshua Weilerstein

Jan 8, 202652:41Music

We humans seem to love comeback stories, and there is no comeback quite as compelling in the classical music world as Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. It was written three years after the disastrous premiere of his...

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