Paul Kildea

Haunted by Old Russia: Rachmaninoff’s lonely final years

Forced into exile by the Bolsheviks, the composer was always an unhappy émigré – first in America, then in France and Switzerland

Sergei Rachmaninoff – a musician living outside his own time. [Getty Images] 
issue 27 May 2023
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    Fiona Maddocks

    Faber, pp. 304, £25

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