The rousing finale of Sunday’s Best of Serenade concert at Strathmore was a piece by Paul Halley called “Untraveled Worlds” on a text by Tennyson, sung fervently by singers of the six vocal ensembles ...

Olga Kern, a pianist steeped in the Russian tradition, performs two pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff from his Op. 3 collection of "Morceaux Fantaisie," or fantasy pieces: "Melodie" and "Serenade." Then ...

Lecturer in Piano, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney The 1917 Russian Revolution was, to many, a calamitous social and ideological experiment on an unprecedented scale. As the ...

Rachmaninoff's two dozen "Preludes" aren't really preludes to anything. He just needed to call them something. His other miniatures have names like Elegie, Etude-tableau, serenade, and Humoresque.