Goodbye Russia by Fiona Maddocks

10/06/2025 10h 15min
Goodbye Russia by Fiona Maddocks

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Title: Goodbye Russia
Author: Fiona Maddocks
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
Release date: 06-10-25
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Music
Publisher's Summary:
In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace.