At this year’s Musikfest Berlin the pianist Alexander Melnikov devotes two evenings to the chamber music of Sergei Rachmaninoff. On 27 August he will be joined by the cellist Alexander Rudin, the soprano Nadezhda Pavlova and the pianist Olga Pashchenko, who will also perform two of Rachmaninoff’s song transcriptions for solo piano.
Alexander Rudin cello
Alexander Melnikov piano
Nadezhda Pavlova soprano
Olga Pashchenko piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata for Cello und Piano in G minor, op.19
Alexander Rudin cello, Alexander Melnikov piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
6 Romances (Lieder), op. 38
Nadezhda Pavlova soprano, Alexander Melnikov piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano transcription of the lied Wohin?, D 795 No. 2 by Franz Schubert
Olga Pashchenko piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano transcription of the Cradle Song), op. 16 No. 1 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Olga Pashchenko piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances, op. 45 (arr. for 2 pianos by the composer)
Alexander Melnikov piano, Olga Pashchenko piano
