The Bells, Rachmaninoff

Venue: 

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, UK

Date: 

Saturday, 23 May, 2020

Organisation: 

Cambridge Philharmonic

The Bells (Russian: Колокола, Kolokola), Op. 35, is a choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1913. The words are from the poem The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe, very freely translated into Russian by the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont.