With daughter Tatiana


As a young man

Great photos Marianne!

Indeed so! Happy to share with you!!!

Funny, but it seems nobody in the archives ever noticed Rachmaninoff on this photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt:



http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/50474020/Time-Life-Pictures

I've searched for Bruno Walter and found out this photo and recognised Rachmaninoff, this photo one can find in more good quality on google.com source:life and there again no mentioning of Rachmaninoff :-)

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing.

Your are welcome!!!

Here is one more, the loveliest!



Isn't it?

That's cute! Is that a daughter or a niece or something?

That's his granddaughter - Sophia!

Ah, I should have known. Cute!

his nose is very impressive.. so aristocratic.

I'm glad this got bumped up again. the photos are fantastic.

You are welcome!

And I am glad that I've finally come across the photos enlarged that I've been searching for in the start of the topic. Here they are:





The last photo was obviously made in Senar. As long as I've seen on the photos from modern Senar it looks a bit the same way with the same number of photos on the shelve...

that's a well used piano seat.

Thanks again for the pics! Interesting that that Hamburg Steinway has a New York lyre.

Thank you Marianne for these wonderful old photos - especially SR in his natural habitat - dog, granddaughter, birthday cake - I love it!

It is touching to see this images from a world that has vanished - these people are my heroes even if the rest of the world seems to have moved on to other things -

I have a volume of translations of Akhmatova's poetry filled with wonderful photos of people who seem so interesting I wish I could go into the photos and talk to them - they would have to indulge me and speak english of course - Blok, Mandelstam, Biely - a lost world

There was a thread devoted to Elgar for those who wanted to know more

Here it is:

http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1213592/1.html

with Sir Henry Heyman (violinist) in the Bohemian Grove

Another fascinating photograph...both enjoying cigars too.

Thanks for sharing.

Interesting that that Hamburg Steinway has a New York lyre.

Wow, Good one H.

I can't decide between the granddaughter sitting on the piano, or Rach. cutting the birthday cake.

Thanks so much for sharing these photos.

Wow, amazing pics! I love the one with his granddaughter

Two more

Thanks, I sort of just "saw" that all of a sudden. Does catch the eye!

A very rare audio of Rachmaninoff's cousin, teacher and main producer - Alexander Ziloti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRScpZgQkIo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHzl5_afb4

Plus rare photos!


Rachmaninoff and Russian writer Ivan Bunin


Lifar, Aleksinskaya, Rachmaninoff, Paris 1939


Rachmaninoff and Medtner, Florence, 1924


Rachmaninoff and his daughter Tatyana

!!!!!! NO!!!!! The emotional range is amazing in his music.. I mean I get emotionally completely drained every time I play the 2nd sonata!! And the 2nd concerto! Rach 2 and 3 are extremely different.. structure-wise and harmonically and mood-wise.. How can those harmonies in the Intermezzo of Rach 3 not melt you.. or in the cadenza.. or the second symphony - especially in the development of the slow movement! Rach is the one composer I feel the closest to

I really have to agree with Angelina, here. I think you're out of your mind, if you think Rach's emotional level is extremely limited, and/or repetitive. He propels me out of my seat every time I hear the 3rd concerto, which has nothing to do with the 2nd...I'm sorry, but the notion, that the former is nothing more than a repeat of the latter, is nonsense. Strauss, Sibelius, Nielsen, and Elgar are superior composers (yes, I realize I left out Mahler)? I can't even take that seriously. Opinion, is what it is, I suppose.

Hey! Mahler is great!!!!

Btw I must say I am loving the pictures!!!

Tis the reason I left him out of the list of "superior" composers.

Marianne,
I have enjoyed the pictures of Siloti with Liszt and with Tchaikovsky on your website (along with the dedications). Very interesting. Are these photos in private hands?

These photos were published on the postcards, so I guess they are not in the private collection but rather in public sharing!

One more rare photo of Rachmaninoff