| Set List | 'Sonata In D Major', Mozart (Rachmaninoff),
'Sonata In B Flat Minor', Chopin (Rachmaninoff),
'Mazurka In B Minor, Op.33, No.4', Chopin (Rachmaninoff),
'Ballade In G Minor, Op.23', Chopin (Rachmaninoff),
'Prelude In B Minor, Op.32, No.10', Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninoff),
'Prelude In A Minor, Op.32', Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninoff),
'Sonetta Del Petrarca, Op.104, No.3', Liszt (Rachmaninoff),
'Polonaise In E Major, No.2', Liszt (Rachmaninoff)
ENCORE
'Valse', Chopin
SECOND ENCORE
'Prelude', Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninoff) |
| Performance Notes | "RACHMANINOFF.
SCENES AT ALBERT HALL.
MEMRABLE RECITAL.
AUDIENCE CROWD TO PLATFORM.
It is now quite clear that Sergei Rachmaninoff has been promoted by consensus of public opinion from the position of an eminent composer and pianist to that of a great popular figure. At the Royal Albert Hall yesterday afternoon he had the kind of reception that is accorded only to personalities of world-wide renown...
...the ovation given him in the Albert Hall yesterday had nothing in it of surprise - except perhaps to himself. His name, his austere personality, had caught the popular imagination. His interprestation of a partly classical but almost wholly romantic programme so obviously appealed to th evast audience that encores were inevitable and the scene at the close, when people crowded close to the platform, was a spontaneous tribute to his great gifts as composer, his powers as executant, and to the charm of a magnetic but somewhat aloof individuality..."
(The Daily Telegraph, 4 November 1929) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1929/65) |