Elena Schwarz conducts Scriabin and Rachmaninov

When Sergey Rachmaninov composed his evocative Études-Tableaux (‘Study-Pictures’) for piano, he kept his inspirations to himself, hoping that audiences would imagine their own pictures instead. Almost twenty years later, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi set out to orchestrate a selection, Rachmaninov divulged some of the images that had come to mind when writing the pieces: a fair, the sea, children’s tales, and marches.