‘Risoluto’

Sergei Rachmaninoff inpired Sir Charles Villiers Stanford to compose a piano concerto in 1911, but a series of disappointments, including the cancellation of American tour after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, meant that it was five years before Stanford heard his concerto played in public, and almost a century before its Proms debut in 2008.

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