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Once every few years in the life of a concertgoer comes a performance of a well-loved work so compelling that it forces the listener to re-evaluate his or her relationship with the work at hand.

Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play his “Prelude on C# Minor.” This is an Ampico Recording, Preludes C-sharp Minor by Rachmaninoff, played by the composer. Played by the ...

Prolonged exposure to Rachmaninoff can be addictive. When you find yourself humming the tune from his second piano concerto that came to be known as Full Moon and Empty Arms, thanks to a 1940s hit by ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff called it a concerto “for elephants,” and he was not exaggerating. His Piano Concerto No. 3, in D minor, stands as a colossus in the repertoire not only because it’s the most ...