After nearly being expelled from conservatory and enduring the
disastrous premiere of his first symphony, Rachmaninoff didn’t write a note of
music for three years. But after trying
out hypnosis therapy (“You will write a Concerto. . . You will work with great
facility. . . It will be excellent”), Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto
No. 2.
Podcasts from the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.
