War & peace Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest

Immersed in the soothing tranquility of the Ivanovka estate, Rachmaninoff wrote his Third Piano Concerto during the summer of 1909. A masterpiece from a paradise not yet lost: not long after, war broke out in Europe, and in music. End of an era: even in the brilliance of Ravel's La Franse and the grandeur of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler you hear that the world would never be the same again.