Rachmaninoff - Lilacs - Сирень - Oksana Lepska

Oksana Lepska (21) performs Russian romance «Lilacs» (Siren’). Lilacs, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/5 written by Russian composer Sergey Rachmaninov (Rachmaninoff), lyrics by Ekaterina Beketova. Piano Julia Sinani. Video was made from the solo-concert “Winter dreams“ Riga Latvia. Rachmaninoff / Beketova: Lilacs (Op. 21, No. 5) Lilacs (Siren) was composed by Sergei Rachmaninov in April 1902, along with ten other songs that were then combined with an earlier piece, Fate (1900), into the opus 21 set of 12 Songs published by Guthiel in December 1902. Rachmaninov was married to Nathalie Satin in April 1902 and wrote this set largely to help pay for their honeymoon, which lasted until August. In June, Rachmaninov wrote to his friend Nikita Morozov, “these songs were written in a hurry and are quite unfinished and unbeautiful. But they’ll almost have to stay this way, as I don’t have time to tinker with them further. It would be nice to get done with all this dirty work by the July 1st so I can get t