The Grand Tour: La Rochelle

One foot in the homeland, the other in exile: if Chopin was still living in his beloved Poland at the time of the First Concerto , its slow movement already mourns the lost and soon distant country that he would sing about all his life. Does Sergei Rachmaninov proceed differently in his Symphonic Dances , where the scent of the holy land of Russia swirls in Dionysian waltzes? This is the first of the National's five meetings with Rachmaninov, ina...