The Cultural Exchange Foundation Celebrated 150 Years of Rachmaninoff on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, NYC.
The Cultural Exchange Foundation – in cooperation with Young Concert Artists, Houston Grand Opera, Classical Movements, Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival, and Morgan State University – celebrated 150 years of Rachmaninoff with a diverse program of instrumental and vocal music. The evening commemorates one of the finest composers of the Romantic era and one of the most celebrated pianists of all time. An exciting group of world-class artists from around the globe will perform some of Rachmaninoff’s most famous music: Preludes, Études Tableaux, and original transcriptions, as well as more rarely heard selections, such as excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers performed by the Morgan State Choir, and arias from the operas Aleko, Francesca de Rimini, and The Miserly Knight. The night will also feature various romances, solo piano works, and chamber works: Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor with Asi Matathias on violin, Kristina Reiko Cooper on cello, and Dmitry Yudin on piano, as well as the brilliant Sonata for Cello and Piano, also performed by Cooper and Yudin. Soprano Sarah Coburn will also perform three of Rachmaninoff’s most treasured romances including his perennial favorite Vocalise.