and sheeyat. Post yo interesting concert programs MOFOS. This one’s Sofronitsky’s 1933 Christmas recital (25 Dec) – Bach/Busoni C major organ toccata, 12 Chopin etudes, Barcarolle, 2 mazurkas, Scherzo 2, Prokofiev 3 pieces, Debussy 4 Preludes.
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1351552422
Amazing lists of Rach’s new repertoire for each season.
Actually there’s a lot of info in that book but google books is a bit tricky and doesn’t show all pages -
You can find lists here -
https://rec.music.classical.recordings.narkive.com/69mLpnRT/rachmaninoff-s-repertoire
Rachmaninoff’s repertoire
(born 1873)
1885 Bach: English Suite #2
1887 Tchaikovsky: Troika > The Seasons Op. 37
1892 Rubinstein: Concerto #4
Schumann: Kreisleriana
1911 Tchaikovsky: Concerto #1
1915 Liszt: Concerto #1
Scriabin: Concerto, Sonata #2, Sonata #5, Fantasie Op. 28, Poeme Op. 32/1,
Poeme Satanique Op. 36, Preludes Op. 11, Etude Op. 8/12
1917 Bach-Busoni: Chaconne
Beethoven: 32 Variations in c-minor, Sonata Op. 10/3
Chopin: Sonata #3, unspecified etudes
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies #2 & 12,
Scriabin: Etudes Op. 42
Haydn: Variations in f-minor
Medtner: Fairy Tales Op. 20 & 26
Schubert: unspecified Moments Musicaux
Mozart: unspecified piece
1918 Chopin: Polonaise Op. 40/2, Nocturne Op. 27/1, Waltz Op. 42
Godowsky: Renaissance paraphrases #11 & 12
Rubinstein: Barcarolle, unspecified polka
Scarlatti-Tausig: Capriccio L84, Pastorale L413
Tausig: 2 unspecified Waltz-Caprices
Tchaikovsky: Romance Op. 5
1919 Mozart: Sonata K. 331
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 31/2
Chopin: Ballade #2, Scherzo #2, Polonaise Op. 26/2, Impromptu Op. 29,
Waltzes Op. 64/3 & 69/2, unspecified etudes
Liszt: Gnomenreigen, La Campanella, Waltz >Gounod’s Faust
Schumann: Carnaval, 2 unspecified Paganini etudes
Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses, Rondo Capricioso, Song without Words Op.
67/4
Alkan: Comme il Vent Op. 39/1, Marche Funebre Op. 26
Rubinstein: Etude Op. 23/2
1920 Beethoven: Sonata Op. 10/2, Sonata Op. 90
Chopin Ballade #1, Barcarolle, Nocturne Op. 48/2, Etudes Op. 10/5 & Op.
25/2, 3 & 9, Mazurkas Op. 59/2 & 63/3, Waltzes Op. 34/2, 64/1 & 3, 70/1
Schumann: Papillons
Mendelssohn: 8 unspecified Songs without Words
Debussy: Childrens’ Corner
Grieg: Op. 12/2 & 4, 19/1, 68/2
Medtner: 2 Novellen Op. 17
Tchaikovsky: Waltz Op. 40/8
Weber: Momento capriccioso
Paderewski: Menuet Op. 14/1
Daquin: Le Coucou
1921 Handel: Variations in Bb
Beethoven: Sonata Pathetique
Chopin: Ballade #3, Scherzo #3, Polonaises Op. 26/1 & 53, Nocturne Op. 27/2,
Waltzes Op. 18 & 70/3
Liszt: Ballade #2, Grand Galop Chromatique, Sonetto del Petrarca 104,
Tarentella > Venezia e Napoli
Schumann: Novellette Op. 21/8
Grieg: Ballade
Weber:-Tausig Invitation to the Dance
Medtner: Fairy Tale Op. 34/3
Dohnanyi: Capriccio Op. 28/6
1922 Beethoven: Sonata Appassionata
Chopin: Sonata #2, Fantasie, Nocturne Op. 15/2
Chopin-Liszt: The Maiden’s Wish
Schumann-Tausig: Der Kontrabandiste
Liadof: Etude Op. 5
Medtner: Improvisation Op. 31/1
Moszkowski: La Jongleuse
Strauss-Schulz-Evler: Paraphrase on the Blue Danube
1923 Bach: English Suite #2
Chopin: Nocturne Op. 62/2, Prelude Op. 28/19
Liszt: Funerailles, Spanish Rhapsody, Liebestraum #3
Schubert-Liszt: Ave Maria
Henselt: Si oiseau j’etais
Tchaikovsky: Humoresque Op. 10/2, Variations Op. 19/6
Wagner-Brassi:n Magic Fire Music
Delibes-Dohnany:i Naila Waltz
1924 Bach-Liszt: Prelude & Fugue in A
Chopin: Ballade #2, Scherzo #4
Liszt: Sonata in b-minor, Polonaise #2
Schumann: Sonata Op. 22
Gluck-Sgambati: Melodie > Orfeo
Saint-Saens-Siloti: The Swan
Schubert-Liszt: Das Wandern
Strauss-Godowsky: Kunstlerleben paraphrase
1925 Bach: Partita #4
Beethoven-Rubinstein: Turkish March > The Runis of Athens
Schubert: Impromptu D. 899/4
1926 Beethoven: Sonata Op. 26
Chopin: Nocturne Op. 15/1, Introduction & Rondo Op. 16
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #15
Mendelssohn: 2 Etudes Op. 104
Schubert-Tausig: Andantino & Variations
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes
Brahms: Intermezzo Op. 118/6
1927 Bach-Busoni: 2 Organ Preludes
Chopin: Etude Op. 10/1, Nocturne Op. 9/2
Liszt: Paganini Etude #6, Sonata apres Dante
Medtner: Sonata Op. 25/1
Scriabin: Sonata #4
Strauss-Tausig: Man lebt nur einmal, Valse-Caprice #1
Taniev: Prelude & Fugue Op. 29
1928 Mozart: Sonata K. 576
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 109
Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Ravel: Tocatta > Le Tombeau de Couperin
Medtner: Fairy Tale Op. 51/1
Scarlatti: 2 unspecified Sonatas
1929 Beethoven: Sonata Op. 78
Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66, Mazurka Op. 33/4, Nocturne Op. 32/1
Liszt: Valse-Impromptu
Wagner-Liszt: Spinning Chorus
Schubert-Tausig: Marche Militaire D.733/1
Medtner: 3 Hymns Op. 49
1930 Chopin: Polonaise Op. 44
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #9, Valse Oubliee #4
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze
Medtner: Funeral March Op. 31/2
Balakirev: Islamey
1931 Beethoven: Sonata Les Adieux
Weber: Sonata #1
Chopin: Polonaise Op. 40/1,
Liszt: Harmonies du Soir
Brahms: 2 unspecified Ballades Op. 10
1932 Beethoven: Sonata “Moonlight”
Haydn: C-major Fantasia
Schubert: 2 unspecified Impromptus D. 935
Schubert-Liszt: unspecified lieder
Schumann-Liszt: unspecified lieder
1933 Beethoven: Sonata Op. 31/1
Schubert: Sonata D. 850
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #11
Liszt: Sonetto del Petrarca 123
Schumann: Arabesque
Debussy: Pour le Piano
1934 Bach-Tausig: Toccata & Fugue in d-minor
Chopin: Impromptu Op. 36, 2 unspecified mazurkas
Brahms: Ballade Op. 118/3
Scarlatti: 2 unspecified Sonatas
1935 Handel: Harmonious Blacksmith Variations
Chopin: Mazurka Op. 68/2
Scarlatti: several unspecified sonatas
Borodin: Scherzo
1936 Bach-Liszt: Fantasie & Fugue in g-minor
Field: 2 unspecified nocturnes
Chopin: Mazurka Op. 7/3
Liszt: Paganini Etude #2, Valse Oubliee #3
1937 Bach: Italian Concerto
Beethoven: Concerto #1
Chopin: Mazurka Op. 63/2
Liszt: Prelude Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
1938 Beethoven: Sonata Op. 111
Chopin: 12 unspecified preludes Op. 28, 3 unspecified etudes Op. 25
Rameau: Variations in a
1939 Bach: French Suite #6
Liszt: Totentanz for pf & orch
Schubert-Liszt: Die Forelle
Poulenc: Toccata
1941 Chopin: 2 unspecified mazurkas
Schumann: Concerto
1942 Chopin-Liszt: The Return Home
Schubert-Liszt: Serenade
Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien
(died March 1943)
Not specific programs but they are the new pieces he added each season.
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This is interesting but I’d love to see actual printed pages of the programs, if there are any.
The inherent difficulty finding Rach programs is the fact that googling around Rachmaninoff program will mainly lead you to concerts where his music was played, billions of programs…and not so much HIS concert programs 
I’d love to see exactly where he placed Comme le Vent in a program!
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Yes, da fuck?? And the funeral march too.
Amazing! Also, Ravel’s ‘Tocatta’ (sic) in 1928! Fuck if only these pieces were recorded!
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Who was playing Wagner? It’s too hard to read.
Igor Miklashevsky was conducting Wagner. There’s an interesting article about him here, in Russian. Apparently he was one of the early Scriabin exponents. Died of starvation in 1942.
http://old.conservatory.ru/files/Musicus_43_Makhmutova.pdf
Sofronitsky & Kamensky played (respectively) the Scriabin PC and, I think, Prometheus.
Never heard of him. It would probably take me several hours to read through that, even with a dictionary. Russian was too hard for me. 
Oh yeah that’s hard, I need both a dictionary and translator for that. But there’s basically nothing else about him on the net, so…
I also can’t read day sheeyat. But what is da circumstance of his starvation death? The war?
Yeah the Leningrad Blokad, aka Siege. One of many to go out that way, apparently. And he was offered a chance to leave beforehand too.
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I would’ve loved to have heard it. This series of concerts was very controversial.
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Richter in Bergamo 1966:
Beethoven: Sonatas, opus 90, 101, and 106.
Sadly, the program was changed and he didn’t play the Hammerklavier until 1975.
Program was changed to:
Beethoven: Sonatas, opus 22, 26, 90, and 101.
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https://mega.nz/#F!QmRjFKhA!xAeul9mSMSrDtwA6WU8fkQ
A bunch of scanned 3rd+ generation Xerox copied VHorowitz programs, reviews and articles dating from 30's through the 50's. The source is via my old teacher, Mr. Richard Volpe, of the VH 1957 Carmen Paraphrase and HR#19 fame (via VH historian Caine Alder, who leaked the '57rec to RV)… I believe I uploaded his Carmen transcr back in around c. '02via old Makoto Natsui Japanese website, if any of you 88freekz recall that one. (#deepcutz #earlierinterwebsstylee). It quickly circled the globe and now every mofo and their lil sister has a Carmen in their YouTube encore arsenal. There are some fascinating programs in there. Petroushka, Prok Sonata no.3…Downes review of Barber etc etc. I even have some more, but this is at least half of the clippings given to me. Enjoy.
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Thanks but I can’t d/l this – it says it’s an empty folder, and the download button top right (d/l as zip) isn’t working.
Check now…?
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