Rachmaninoff was still a teenager at the Moscow Conservatory when he completed his Piano Concerto No. 1 – for the first time, that is. He revised it some 26 years later, writing to a friend: “I have rewritten my First Concerto. It is really good now. All the youthful freshness is there, and yet it plays itself so much more easily.”

Come for:

Two roughly contemporary but highly contrasting Russian works from two of the most charismatic artists.

And more:

A new piece by the highly regarded young Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason, whose work we have championed in recent seasons.