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Music Matters: Rachmaninov on Lake Lucerne

Rachmaninov on Lake Lucerne

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Kate Molleson marks the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov's birth.

Kate Molleson marks the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov's birth as the composer's Swiss home, Villa Senar, on the banks of Lake Lucerne, reopens to the public.

Kate Molleson marks the 150 anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov's birth.  She visits his home in Switzerland - after years of renovation, the beautiful Villa Senar, on the banks of Lake Lucerne, is reopening to the public.  This is the peaceful summer residence where Rachmaninov lived in in the 1930s and where he composed the Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini and the Third symphony.  

Kate is shown around the Villa by its director Andrea Loetscher. They are joined by pianist Boris Giltburg, who is about to release his new Rachmaninov piano concertos disc, and who performs specially for Music Matters on Rachmaninov's original Steinway grand piano in the Villa's studio.  Also joining Kate at the Villa is Fiona Maddocks: music critic and author of the upcoming book 'Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile'.  Together they discuss Rachmaninov's life, work and his time spent at Villa Senar.

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