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A dive into the life and music of one of the great late-Romantic pianist composers, Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Music included (Listening List):
Piano Concerto no. 2 – First Movement
Lilacs Op. 21 no. 5
Six moments musicaux – no. 5
Grieg’s Piano Concerto – First Movement
Piano Concerto no. 1 – First Movement
Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet no. 1 – Scherzo
Six moments musicaux – no. 1
Prelude in C-sharp minor
Isle of the Dead Op. 29
Piano Concerto no. 2 – Second Movement
Symphony no. 1 – First Movement
Piano Concerto no. 2 – Third Movement
Nocturne no. 2 in F Major
All-Night Vigil Op. 37 – 2. Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Gospoda
Symphony no. 2 – Adagio
Symphonic Dances – Finale
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini – 18th Variation
0:00 – Introduction
2:00 – Early Life
4:11 – Prelude in C# Minor
5:23 – Death as a Motif
6:23 – Piano Concertos
7:50 – The 2nd Piano Concerto
10:13 – Best Known Works
10:45 – WW1 and the All-Night Vigil
12:12 – Late Work: The Symphonic Dances
12:55 – Finale
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Good job! I love his music all over again.
Wagner PLEASE !
5:50 Afaik it wasn't a photo, but a pencil drawing of the painting.
RachmaninOV
3:34 whats the name of the piece?
Stop the add and go righty to the point. Pls.
The new video is again about Russian culture, which is being used by the Russians right now to commit genocide, and not a single video about the silenced Ukrainian culture that the Russians have been destroying for centuries
Hi, I just wanted to say that i love Rachmaninoffs compositions and am very grateful that you made this video. I started listening to classical music after hearing Prelude in C Sharp minor and the three beginning note still give me thrills
I have become interested in Rachmaninoff since quite many months, mostly because my piano-tuner is a fan of Rachmaninoff and plays his music personally. But every time I gave it a try to listen to, I had to stop: it was just too deep, too disturbing! Nothing that I can listen to while washing the dishes … ! Thanks to the background that you have provided to me here, I will give it a second try and dive into the haunting "Angst" and overwhelming triumph. I will find these most beautiful melodies you are referring to, I promise.
Please learn to pronounce his name correctly. It's pronounced like ROCK-man-i-noff. Hurting my ears.
BEAUTIFUL
Wrong….1st theme is played by violins and violas. The lower strings do not join until later.
So that’s what I’m listening to!!!! Those Russian years can never be described in words!!!
Just performed All-Night Vigil twice during Easter. That is absolutely the most beautiful music ever written and I love singing it!
This man created Arguably the most emotional compositions ever written
We grew up listening to our father's records of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. I find it a coincidence that both came from well off families, suffering depression with deaths of family members, rejected and severely critized for their earlier works. Was Rach haunted by the tormented spirit of Tchaikovsky?
Got interested then you mentioned apple. Total garbage
3rd piano concerto is perfection.
Another fine video! When are the BBC's Radio 3, going to snap you up?
I was mostly into symphonies as a kid until I heard the Rach2. The second movement… the opening clarinet solo… a whole new world of classical opened.
Your voice is worse than any Rachmaninov piece 🙁
My favorite composer! I first heard about Rachmaninov from my first love. When the latter didn't work out, the former remained.
A friend of mine, a professional pianist with whom I often talked about classical music with, recommended his 2nd Piano Concerto when I mentioned his name. The composer further endeared himself to me when I found he struggled with depression.
My favorite composition is undoubtedly his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, especially its beloved 18th variation. Thank you for this wonderful video essay.
Happy to see your channel doing well 🙂 Been here since the Beethoven II symphony analysis!
Giggling to myself how the video leaves off talking about what an astonishingly inspired melodic composer Rachmaninoff was, while in the background plays the most famous piece for which he didn't compose the melody, the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 😂
Great video!
At 1:02 you say that Rachmaninoff's music can impact one's life. But later on the video you never revealed how exactly.
Thank you for the video anyway!
My favourite is his 2nd symphony, hope u can do a review on it
I wish he wrote more chamber music his cello sonatas are wonderful
Enjoyable narrative but you stated Rachmaninoff died in 1942 when in fact he died in 1943.
Lo escucho porque es como estar con Ángeles a mi mamá le gustaba el concierto número 2 y yo seguí escuchando hasta que descubrí el número 3 y la sinfonía número 2
Why listen to Nikolai Medtner, please?
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…cuz WW 2 and the Commie Shostakovich. Elegant sounds of Western Music WERE GOING OUT OF FASHION. Sad.
The first time I heard the No. 2 Piano Concerto, I cried.
To this day I cannot hear it and not get emotional.
I feel you could have given a mention of his 3rd piano concerto. Just saying…
Rachmaninoff is the reason I love classical music and its musicians, His piano concert #2 is my go to for my me time
I grew up in the south in the seventies, where classical music was considered the music of snobs. I was always interested in it, but kept it mostly to myself. Then, one Sunday in the eighties, I had public television on, while half asleep on the couch, when a show featuring Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto came on. By the end of the show, I was in the floor, mere feet from the TV, all but breathless. I knew, right then, that there had to be a story behind that piece. Little did I know how right I was! I became, and remain, a diehard Rachmaninoff fan, and of classical music in general. Rachmaninoff gave his last recital at the University of Tennessee just weeks before he died. There is a statue of him on campus, commemorating that recital. I visited it on April 1st of this year – the 150th anniversary of his birth. I believe him to be the greatest composer of all time, and the second piano concerto to be the greatest classical composition of all time.
My favorite composer! I first knew his work from Mao Asada skating with his Piano Concerto No.2, and it was just perfect, both the music and the skating.