Rachmaninoff: first death, then life

When Rachmaninoff explained to conductor Leopold Stokowski how his works should be understood, he wrote: “First death, then life.”

Music and words. Pianist and writer. A declaration of love to a great composer. Mikhail Shishkin reads an essay about Rachmaninoff, Alexei Botvinov plays his music.

Michail Schischkin (writer)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)

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