\u201cFor seventeen years, since I lost my country, I felt unable to compose. When I spent a summer on my estate in Russia, I rediscovered the pleasure of working. I still compose, but it no longer means the same to me,\u201d Sergei Rachmaninov confided to the Daily Telegraph in an interview in 1933.
\nAnd yet, a few years later, he found a renewed creative breath. In his Third Symphony, he captures the longing for his homeland in music that is rich and deeply melancholic \u2014 firmly rooted in the Russian tradition, yet unmistakably shaped by the sounds of his new home in America.
\nFirst, Simone Lamsma performs what has since become her signature piece: Benjamin Britten\u2019s Violin Concerto. \u201cThe work has an immense emotional power,\u201d she said in Preludium. \u201cTurbulence, sharpness, intensity, but also stillness. After an extraordinary climax in the coda, an overwhelming silence follows. . The power and intensity of that silence at the end are unique. For me, this is the defining moment of the concerto.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cFor seventeen years, since I lost my country, I felt unable to compose. When I spent a summer on my estate in Russia, I rediscovered the pleasure of working. I still compose, but it no longer means the same to me,\u201d Sergei Rachmaninov confided to the Daily Telegraph in an interview in 1933. And yet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n