Blair Johnston's lecture on Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances”

Blair Johnston speaks about Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances," op. 45. The Library of Congress now holds all of the significant source materials for the different versions of the "Symphonic Dances," and this talk helps to celebrate the Library's recent acquisition of the two-piano version of the "Symphonic Dances."

Great performance of the Symphonic Dances by Kondrashin in 1963: