Did you know that those aren’t Cs, but simply broken circles? It has to with the holy trinity. A complete circle signified 3/4, and a circle with a dot inside was 9/8. It does not stand for “common time” but imperfection.
@@iliyajavadianokay but he is true… no need to be rude about it; the C is a semicircle, meaning imperfection, not originally the actual letter C - hence ‘imperfect time’. Read Crosby’s “The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society: 1250-1600”.
@@zcu8404 i know what he's saying. it did stand for "imperfect" duple meter. and it wasn't even 4/4, it was 2/4. But that was way back in the day, it's just called common time now, and is used to show 4/4, not 2/4. the full circle would've been 3/4.
@MilesDoyleSalt......What.....in the ever loving fuck are you on about mate???! The original comment was a very simple little sarcastic quip poking fun at the video title's implication that the poster has a complete knowledge of all music, ever. And then you came along and......did whatever it is all THAT ^^^^^ was supposed to be.
Rachmaninoff composed this work after the criticism of his earlier piano concerto, which threw him into a decade long depression. So inspiring that he comes back with this absolute MASTERPIECE.
@@elitito4463 and I've heard someone say that the introduction part of the first movement symbolizes his therapist's hypnosis pendulum clock thing going back and forth 😅
She is so good with Rachmaninoff. She really gets it, and has the talent to express it! It was one of her performances that got me into playing the (easier) Preludes.
The most romantic melody: 'that certain' part of the 2nd movement where the soloist is doing arpeggios and the violins are just producing the sweetest melody everrrrrr❤❤❤❤
The part that always kills me in the second movement is the return to the original theme. I can’t play through it much of the time, it just destroys me and I don’t exactly know why.
As someone that had to pick up piano a year ago i can’t even imagine what it feels like to play this. It’s so complex and beautiful and to express all that seems so difficult i would get lost in the music
Communicates to me a "what could have been" feeling. Especially around 0:32 that high Eb7 half note leading into the short refrain (if I can call it that) based on the Ab and D7. Never goes dark depressive but keeps some brighter more positive intervals. Kind of tragic softening, but never loses it to something more jarring with half steps or 7ths etc maintains a more elegant down throttle from the previous tempest. I should study the chord progressions in there I really like that pivot at the end where a somewhat discordant progression lands on that c# and then resolves to a stable G7
the Ab to D7 is so interesting. It reminds me of a song (Ruled by Secrecy - Muse) that does something similar in its chorus where the passage resolves to Fm through Eb7 -> Ab -> D7.
My gut being wrenched, I doubt I could stay as stone-faced as this audience! This work truly washes one over with romanticism in the best way possible.
@@bret6484 Pff... I'd say the Mahler 9 Finale has a way more gut wrenching melody. As has the Finale of his 10th. That's the thing with these titles. Music is too big a field to narrow it down this way.
The melody digs deep as Rach develops the theme yet further in this section. He has more to say about it than expected and carries the listener deep into contemplation of it. If there is a single piece that defines romanticism, it would be this one.
This concerto changed my life. As a young person taking piano lessons, I saw the 40's movie "I'll Always Remember You" and Arthur Rubenstein played excerpts from this concerto and it blew me away! My father, a jazz hound, bought me a recording of the concerto and I wore it out! Ah, Rachmaninoff! You changed my life!!! 36 years as a public school music teacher!
My favorite section out of the whole concerto! Just when it couldn’t feel more emotional, my gut wrenches when it gets to 0:56 and on. Feels like my heart has been torn out and I’m walking my last steps experiencing profound melancholy.
Finally! This section after the opening arpeggios is EXACTLY what sells the first movement for me. The rubato literally pulls at your heartstrings, and both hands are so incredibly deliberate :)
Of all of the piano concertos ever written, the Rachmaninoff second holds a special place in the hearts of many people. No matter how many times I hear it, I still love it.
People who comprehend and can play sheet music amaze me. I was in band for about 5 years growing up and I never was able to understand it. I had to just work with my teacher and memorize each portion of a piece to play it back.
I loved this performance. Ana Fedorova plays beautifully and the orchestra is spendid. The trumpets and timpani really add some "I don't know what it is but I really like it" to this concerto.
Of course she plays this so beautifully. But did you mean the horns and timpani, not trumpets and timpani? By the way, I got to see Khatia Buniatishvili play this with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at a church in Vero Beach in 2020. I think I saw myself in a video of the performance (withnsome tears forming in my eyes).
My dad has a vinyl of the full concerto played by Herbert Von Karajan with Alexis Weissenberg and the Berlin Philharmonic. You probably know the one. I grew up listening to this vinyl and to this day it's still my favourite classical/romantic recording ever. It is delightfully and masterfully done.
@ChrisStoneinator In music circles I've heard "record" and "vinyl" used interchangably, but I wanted to emphasize it's my favourite recording in any medium, not just vinyl. Hence "recording."
I've been playing this performance on loop once in a while for several years now - Just from the thumbnail, there's no way I wouldn't recognize Anna Fedorova's Rach 2 performance.
Oh wow it’s my favorite part of my favorite piece! I had no clue what piece it would be! Yes I love this Rachmaninoff! It moved me as a teen and still does now haven’t heard it in years
This right here is my type of music, something that just hits you in the feels. I dont really enjoy too much casual jamming, rap music although sometimes they are alright, when im alone this is it
I finally got to hear this played live at my local Symphony (they usually refuse to include Rachmaninoff). During this section, the lady behind me was humming the melody very loudly (and off-key!). Grrrr! But I didn't have the heart to turn around and ask her to be quiet.
I wrote earlier about Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no.2 and how the second and third movement was used by Eric Carmen writing “All By Myself” and another song from the 3rd Movement of his Piano Concerto. But it’s actually his Symphony No.2 that he used to write “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again”, Creating a huge Copyright infringement and having to share the Royalties with Rachmaninoff. Well, it’s not surprising that many well-known hits actually come from other composers from earlier periods. After all, they were Great Composers. Here is a small list of songs used by Hollywood and many artists we celebrate. A very prolific opera composer, Gioachino Rossini, wrote The Barber of Seville. That’s where we get the Figaro Operatic Aria made famous by cartoons. He also wrote William Tell, an opera with a hero on a horse who saves the day, in 1829. Here Comes Hollywood in 1938 with “The Lone Ranger”! Johann Strauss_1882 Fruhlingsstimmen: Liechtensteiner Polka by Will Glahe_1957 Hit Chopin Sonata No.2 Op 35_1839: Famous Funeral Song Johann Strauss_1866 An Der Scthonen Blauen Donau: A Dogs Life, Charles Chaplin 1918 Ernesto Lecuona Suite Andalucia_1928: The Breeze and I, Al Stillman 1940 Chopin borrowed from Beethoven Brahms borrowed from Mozart The list goes on
For me that would be in the Rach 3, if you go to spotify and listen to the Argerich/Chailly rendition, the whole passage that starts at 2:44. It starts triumphant, grand, inspiring, then at 3:24 all of a sudden it becomes playful, and then...it arrives, at 3:58...my god, the most heartfelt, devastating, heartbreaking melancholy I've ever heard conveyed in all of music. It brings tears to my eyes every single time.
Rachmaninoff has other “gut-wrenching” melodies that can compete with this one: Second movement and third’s lyrical theme of this concerto Third concerto’s second movement and maybe the lyrical theme of the first Variation 16 in a theme of Chopin (the most underrated and beautiful in my opinion) Prelude in d major And other melodies not as purely expressive but of a more reflexive nature (etudes op 33 no 7/8 and op 39 no 8) This is without counting the orchestral works where the piano is not protagonist But I agree, this moment is beautiful
It's gorgeous and so moving esp the 2nd movement, brings tears to one's eyes and heart wrenching indeed! Have been listening to this famous piano concerto for decades and even when my late beloved mother was dying of cancer! It's also best heard as the masterful score from one of the most classic romantic films of all times "Brief Encounter", a British film in the 1940s, a must watch! Am a pianist and American composer as well of pieces for piano and a New England folk opera which has been performed publicly with a write up in the Boston Globe. Thank you for posting this~ ♥♥🎼🎹🎵🎶
Rachmaninoff's most popular concerto: No. 2 Most popular movement from that concerto: No. 2 Most popular symphony: No. 2 Most popular sonata: No. 2 (2nd version)
With the caveat that there are many pieces of music I have not yet heard, I consider Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto the greatest, the most beautiful, piece of music in the world.
It's surely incredibly beautiful, but I do believe I have to give the most gut-wrenching award to the B theme in Mvt. III of Scriabin's piano concerto. The way it reaches heavenward is stunning.
@@iliyajavadian My two favorites would be Zhokovs performance here: ua-cam.com/video/8OVpSiixmU4/v-deo.html and Ashkenazy's recording here: ua-cam.com/video/ylSrzlphVq0/v-deo.html
My all time favorite, full of popular melodies.....remember All by Myself, Full Moon and Empty Arms.... up there with Tchaikovsky's popular melodies. The 2nd is just the best, so beautiful, so dramatic.
@@iliyajavadian Notice that we generally agree with each other and differ in opinion only by a few minutes. The fragment I am pointing out is so good that the audience claps eagerly right after it sounds. 😅Just like after the end of the 3rd movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. 😅 You know - this legendary musical erudition of the Western European audience. 😅 Think kindly about working on this passage - 09.18 - 11.14 ua-cam.com/video/iSySOOU5gdg/v-deo.html
0:32 That's G-half-diminished, not Bbm6. I mean, they're spelled the same, but they are functionally different. It's like using an nonharmonic, enharmonic tone when you don't need to. (To be more clear: A(b) -> D7, G -> C7)
Heart wrenching isn't a strong enough description. It's like the Holy Spirit came apon Rachmaninoff when he wrote this and Anna when she plays it. I don't know any music as powerful and beautiful as this.
It sure is incredibly beautiful, but I personally wouldn‘t describe it as the most heart wrenching… You know those melodies that are almost painfully sweet and melancholic? This feels melancholic too, but also dramatic and suspenseful and.. powerful? There is a confidence behind it which gives you hope, it‘s not as vulnerable and, like I said, painfully sweet as some other parts he‘s written. Just my interpretation, it’s soo subjective and also one thing is not better or worse than the other. 😊
very familiar. i have a CD of that entire concherto. it was used as the theme tune & incidental music in the old black& white, romantic movie, "BREIF ENCOUNTER", which was my mam's favourate, romantic movie.😊
Correction:
The time signature should be half-common-time instead of common-time
Did you know that those aren’t Cs, but simply broken circles? It has to with the holy trinity. A complete circle signified 3/4, and a circle with a dot inside was 9/8. It does not stand for “common time” but imperfection.
@@jamesmitchell6925ok but literally no one asked; and it's name is still common time
@@jamesmitchell6925 I get that you want to be different, but it IS actually called common time...
@@iliyajavadianokay but he is true… no need to be rude about it; the C is a semicircle, meaning imperfection, not originally the actual letter C - hence ‘imperfect time’. Read Crosby’s “The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society: 1250-1600”.
@@zcu8404 i know what he's saying. it did stand for "imperfect" duple meter. and it wasn't even 4/4, it was 2/4. But that was way back in the day, it's just called common time now, and is used to show 4/4, not 2/4. the full circle would've been 3/4.
Finally, a person who managed to listen to all existing music. Well done.
😁
I must say that your level of cynicism is...
Barely adequate 😊
Your talent for understatement is ‘meh.’
Most funny joke in all of jokes! 🤣
@MilesDoyleSalt......What.....in the ever loving fuck are you on about mate???! The original comment was a very simple little sarcastic quip poking fun at the video title's implication that the poster has a complete knowledge of all music, ever. And then you came along and......did whatever it is all THAT ^^^^^ was supposed to be.
Rachmaninoff sure had moments that punched you in the guts and threw your whole mind into a spin. I'm not complaining.
sure did.
@MilesDoyleSalt Thanks
He sure did!
Rachmaninoff composed this work after the criticism of his earlier piano concerto, which threw him into a decade long depression. So inspiring that he comes back with this absolute MASTERPIECE.
yes such a wonderful story
I didn’t know that. Being criticisized makes me give up. Even if it’s self-criticism. Good for him!
After the awful debut of his 1st Symphony, and fun fact: it is said he dedicated the 2nd piano concerto to the psychologist that got him writing again
@@elitito4463 and I've heard someone say that the introduction part of the first movement symbolizes his therapist's hypnosis pendulum clock thing going back and forth 😅
@@CougheePls I too always pictured a pendulum clock with the pizzicato (?), now if his psychologist had such thing then it makes sense
She is so good with Rachmaninoff. She really gets it, and has the talent to express it! It was one of her performances that got me into playing the (easier) Preludes.
@@hippophile my favorite version of rach 2!
The most romantic melody: 'that certain' part of the 2nd movement where the soloist is doing arpeggios and the violins are just producing the sweetest melody everrrrrr❤❤❤❤
yes i knowwww it's super sweet
The part that always kills me in the second movement is the return to the original theme. I can’t play through it much of the time, it just destroys me and I don’t exactly know why.
@@jasonmp85 i completely get how you "can't play through it". it just breaks you
Rachmaninoff, but I am not sure the rhapsody 17th variation isn't more moving
@@cacciato69 Maybe the 18th variation?
As someone that had to pick up piano a year ago i can’t even imagine what it feels like to play this. It’s so complex and beautiful and to express all that seems so difficult i would get lost in the music
it's very difficult but very rewarding when you get it down!
@@iliyajavadian 😁😁 i hope so, think I’m just gonna get through level 6 or 8 so i can do arct flute
@@JustAFlutistThatLovesBubbleTea with your BARE HANDS!?
@@JustAFlutistThatLovesBubbleTea good luck to you!
@@Peterotica haha yeah im rly strong💪💪
Communicates to me a "what could have been" feeling. Especially around 0:32 that high Eb7 half note leading into the short refrain (if I can call it that) based on the Ab and D7. Never goes dark depressive but keeps some brighter more positive intervals. Kind of tragic softening, but never loses it to something more jarring with half steps or 7ths etc maintains a more elegant down throttle from the previous tempest. I should study the chord progressions in there I really like that pivot at the end where a somewhat discordant progression lands on that c# and then resolves to a stable G7
yes that moment is indescribable and gives a really sombre feeling. its hard to explain maybe thats why its so good
the Ab to D7 is so interesting. It reminds me of a song (Ruled by Secrecy - Muse) that does something similar in its chorus where the passage resolves to Fm through Eb7 -> Ab -> D7.
I've only recently started getting into Classical: so I'm going to have to put your comment through Google Translate!
This is one of my favorite piano concertos. I have always found this melody heartbreaking but somewhat hopeful.
it's my TOP favorite. I agree with the second sentence.
My gut being wrenched, I doubt I could stay as stone-faced as this audience! This work truly washes one over with romanticism in the best way possible.
Haha they are probably in shock! I would be, too.
Apart from the old git chewing gum …
humble title
I'm very sensitive over this piece lol
Kinda hard to argue though
😂
I don’t think it’s the most gut wrenching, but it is absolutely beautiful
@@bret6484 Pff... I'd say the Mahler 9 Finale has a way more gut wrenching melody. As has the Finale of his 10th.
That's the thing with these titles. Music is too big a field to narrow it down this way.
my favorite part is right after this when the horn solo comes in!
I looove that melody... especially when piano plays it solo
Yes ... I found that part gut-wrenching.
The melody digs deep as Rach develops the theme yet further in this section. He has more to say about it than expected and carries the listener deep into contemplation of it. If there is a single piece that defines romanticism, it would be this one.
i dont know about the last comment, but the melody DEFINITELY digs very deep
This concerto changed my life.
As a young person taking piano lessons, I saw the 40's movie "I'll Always Remember You"
and Arthur Rubenstein played excerpts from this concerto and it blew me away!
My father, a jazz hound, bought me a recording of the concerto and I wore it out!
Ah, Rachmaninoff! You changed my life!!! 36 years as a public school music teacher!
I think you actually mean the film: "I've Always Loved You" 1946.
@@gljm Thank you sooo much! You are right!
Ah, Rachmaninoff! He will never die!!!
I'm with you on this one. One of the most beatiful moments in music history. It still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it 🥹
you can't NOT love it...
This is my favourite passage from the first movement and possibly even from the whole concerto
Mine too!
My favorite section out of the whole concerto! Just when it couldn’t feel more emotional, my gut wrenches when it gets to 0:56 and on. Feels like my heart has been torn out and I’m walking my last steps experiencing profound melancholy.
i know... the way the notes seem to weep and mourn is just devastatingly beautiful
Finally! This section after the opening arpeggios is EXACTLY what sells the first movement for me. The rubato literally pulls at your heartstrings, and both hands are so incredibly deliberate :)
it's just too heavenly...
Of all of the piano concertos ever written, the Rachmaninoff second holds a special place in the hearts of many people. No matter how many times I hear it, I still love it.
that lady has incredible pianist skills and she plays so expressively. Absolutely breathtaking piece - Bless this woman xx
she pulls back on the tempo just enough to make the melody linger over the running accompaniment - brava!
People who comprehend and can play sheet music amaze me. I was in band for about 5 years growing up and I never was able to understand it. I had to just work with my teacher and memorize each portion of a piece to play it back.
Five years of piano lessons, and I still never could read sheet music.
you could learn it in less than a month if you really work on it! I promise you
I loved this performance.
Ana Fedorova plays beautifully and the orchestra is spendid. The trumpets and timpani really add some "I don't know what it is but I really like it" to this concerto.
love the "I don't know what it is but I really like it" part
Thank you,I was wondering who she was,she is magnificent !
Of course she plays this so beautifully. But did you mean the horns and timpani, not trumpets and timpani? By the way, I got to see Khatia Buniatishvili play this with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at a church in Vero Beach in 2020. I think I saw myself in a video of the performance (withnsome tears forming in my eyes).
Anna does a beautiful job with this beautiful melody.
Well... there are thousands of competitors for that title - which is what makes classical music such an emotional adventure throughout one's life.
just my opinion
thank you for your comment
0:32 Those Bbm6 and C7 chords are probably the most heart-wrenching part of this 😮
0:49 Muse 'borrowed' this melody for Space Dementia: "...and make us meaningless again". The opening of both pieces are similar too.
Oh yeah! It is extremely similar. Good ear!
that’s all I could hear😅
this piece sounded like the most beautiful shades of lilac and sage green 😊
One of the most! Ah, Rachmaninov!
could've used that, too... yeah
My dad has a vinyl of the full concerto played by Herbert Von Karajan with Alexis Weissenberg and the Berlin Philharmonic. You probably know the one. I grew up listening to this vinyl and to this day it's still my favourite classical/romantic recording ever. It is delightfully and masterfully done.
A... A record? You mean a record?
@ChrisStoneinator In music circles I've heard "record" and "vinyl" used interchangably, but I wanted to emphasize it's my favourite recording in any medium, not just vinyl. Hence "recording."
And played by an outstanding Pianist!
of course! it's my favorite version! Anna Fedorova
Pure Rachmaninovian, Russian, romantic sentimentality - and glorious with it! 😊
pure romanticism
I've been playing this performance on loop once in a while for several years now - Just from the thumbnail, there's no way I wouldn't recognize Anna Fedorova's Rach 2 performance.
Wow. I’ve now discovered this piece and it has to be my favorite among a lot of classical I’ve heard
Oh wow it’s my favorite part of my favorite piece! I had no clue what piece it would be! Yes I love this Rachmaninoff! It moved me as a teen and still does now haven’t heard it in years
Such a fabulously talented young lady. This is a very challenging piece to perform, and she makes it seem effortless.
Absolutely Lovely playing from all! Thank you for posting IIiya Javadian!
thank you for watching!
I see where your love for this piece comes from. It is quite beautiful.
Quite is a huge understatement
it is IMMENSELY beautiful!
Only Rachmaninoff could give us melodies like this
Somehow even though I really don't listen specifically to classical pieces this genius from the composer and the musicians amazes me
you should start listening!
@@iliyajavadian listening to many modes of music and maybe you're right
This right here is my type of music, something that just hits you in the feels. I dont really enjoy too much casual jamming, rap music although sometimes they are alright, when im alone this is it
I KNEW THIS VID WAS GONNA BE ABOUT RACH 2 ❤❤❤ i saw this piece live and it almost brought me to tears
what an honor it must've been... i'd love to see such a concert live
@@iliyajavadian always check the repertoire for your local summer music festival 🙏
haha i don't live in a place where there are these kinds of musicians.
@@iliyajavadian ahh dang it… come to america, the classical music scene is large
I'd love to! maybe some day...
Heavenly sounds coming out of her hands ,she is magnificent !
it's my favorite version!
My all-time favorite piano concerto, played expertly by Fedorova in this enchanting selection.
thanks. all my gut microbes just died listening to this
I know
That's not good. Most of them are healthy, and you genuinely need them to live. Wishing you good health!
Everytime i play this passage on the piano, tears run down my face. Its so moving
I finally got to hear this played live at my local Symphony (they usually refuse to include Rachmaninoff). During this section, the lady behind me was humming the melody very loudly (and off-key!). Grrrr! But I didn't have the heart to turn around and ask her to be quiet.
I wrote earlier about Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no.2 and how the second and third movement was used by Eric Carmen writing “All By Myself” and another song from the 3rd Movement of his Piano Concerto. But it’s actually his Symphony No.2 that he used to write “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again”, Creating a huge Copyright infringement and having to share the Royalties with Rachmaninoff. Well, it’s not surprising that many well-known hits actually come from other composers from earlier periods. After all, they were Great Composers. Here is a small list of songs used by Hollywood and many artists we celebrate.
A very prolific opera composer, Gioachino Rossini, wrote The Barber of Seville. That’s where we get the Figaro Operatic Aria made famous by cartoons. He also wrote William Tell, an opera with a hero on a horse who saves the day, in 1829. Here Comes Hollywood in 1938 with “The Lone Ranger”!
Johann Strauss_1882 Fruhlingsstimmen: Liechtensteiner Polka by Will Glahe_1957 Hit
Chopin Sonata No.2 Op 35_1839: Famous Funeral Song
Johann Strauss_1866 An Der Scthonen Blauen Donau: A Dogs Life, Charles Chaplin 1918
Ernesto Lecuona Suite Andalucia_1928: The Breeze and I, Al Stillman 1940
Chopin borrowed from Beethoven
Brahms borrowed from Mozart
The list goes on
that's precious information! thank you!
Getting through this was gut wrenching
When it comes to Rachmaninoff I'm speechless
it's too emotional
this is one of the most beautiful concertos of all time
no doubt
The flowing nature of this music has been lost in the modern world. It's so beautiful.
I love the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff. He's one of my very favorite composers. 😊
mine too!
My very most favorite piece of music ever!
For me that would be in the Rach 3, if you go to spotify and listen to the Argerich/Chailly rendition, the whole passage that starts at 2:44. It starts triumphant, grand, inspiring, then at 3:24 all of a sudden it becomes playful, and then...it arrives, at 3:58...my god, the most heartfelt, devastating, heartbreaking melancholy I've ever heard conveyed in all of music. It brings tears to my eyes every single time.
Wow... I gotta listen to it again with your description
@@iliyajavadian let me know your thoughts once you do :)
that section was so unexpected... but god it felt amazing to listen to
I like the flute melody as well.
Rachmaninoff has other “gut-wrenching” melodies that can compete with this one:
Second movement and third’s lyrical theme of this concerto
Third concerto’s second movement and maybe the lyrical theme of the first
Variation 16 in a theme of Chopin (the most underrated and beautiful in my opinion)
Prelude in d major
And other melodies not as purely expressive but of a more reflexive nature (etudes op 33 no 7/8 and op 39 no 8)
This is without counting the orchestral works where the piano is not protagonist
But I agree, this moment is beautiful
Thank you, I will be listening to this list.
that's a LIST list
I'll definitely listen to all.
0:41 bro chewing gum didn’t come to a classical concert willingly
i would be in shock... i dont know how that man is chewing gum
True.... i feel his pain too.😂
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He's chewing some anti-gutwrenching gum there.
@@paulryan2128😂
Gut-wrenching? Maybe. Finger wrenching? Yes, to all Rachmaninoff piano concertos!
Haha true!
It really is the most gut wrenching. Those single notes. You need to hear the whole thing.
I have...
beautifully phrased.
Good music has many such moments. Whether this is the mostest is pure IMO
yes
It's gorgeous and so moving esp the 2nd movement, brings tears to one's eyes and heart wrenching indeed! Have been listening to this famous piano concerto for decades and even when my late beloved mother was dying of cancer! It's also best heard as the masterful score from one of the most classic romantic films of all times "Brief Encounter", a British film in the 1940s, a must watch! Am a pianist and American composer as well of pieces for piano and a New England folk opera which has been performed publicly with a write up in the Boston Globe. Thank you for posting this~ ♥♥🎼🎹🎵🎶
wow! thank you! I will watch that movie. thank you for watching
@@iliyajavadian You're welcome!
I love the music 🎶 so talented pianist
Don't find this heart wrenching at all. Rather I want to laugh out loud in pure delight because it is so beautiful.
It is so gut wrenching.
I always love finding the classic pieces that inspired the band Muse, for example the a part of their song Space Dementia was inspired by 0:47
Nothing is better than Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff's most popular concerto: No. 2
Most popular movement from that concerto: No. 2
Most popular symphony: No. 2
Most popular sonata: No. 2 (2nd version)
With the caveat that there are many pieces of music I have not yet heard, I consider Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto the greatest, the most beautiful, piece of music in the world.
It's surely incredibly beautiful, but I do believe I have to give the most gut-wrenching award to the B theme in Mvt. III of Scriabin's piano concerto. The way it reaches heavenward is stunning.
do you have a favorite rendition of that piece?
Op 20?
@@iliyajavadian My two favorites would be Zhokovs performance here: ua-cam.com/video/8OVpSiixmU4/v-deo.html
and Ashkenazy's recording here: ua-cam.com/video/ylSrzlphVq0/v-deo.html
@@guybates111 correct
A very moving piece by Rachmaninoff.
My all time favorite, full of popular melodies.....remember All by Myself, Full Moon and Empty Arms.... up there with Tchaikovsky's popular melodies. The 2nd is just the best, so beautiful, so dramatic.
This is my favorite performance of the 2nd ❤ wish to attend a live performance one day
mine too!
My gut has been wrenched
I personally would describe it as being fart wrenching 🤪
I have no knowledge of music but I could feel every of it.
Rachmaninoff.
Well played.
Horowitz is my favorite.
🎶🎶🎶
Did Horowitz ever record Rach 2? I am not aware of him doing so.
Incredible ❤
My favorite piece of all time
mine too!
Certainly one of them. Hard to beat
I really agree with the title it’s super expressive
it's another league
For there is not greater music, than Rachmaninov's music.
Something else delights me - the theme with cellos and the cadenza of movement 1 - 09.07 - 11.16.
YES YES YES THE CELLOS!!
@@iliyajavadian Notice that we generally agree with each other and differ in opinion only by a few minutes.
The fragment I am pointing out is so good that the audience claps eagerly right after it sounds. 😅Just like after the end of the 3rd movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. 😅 You know - this legendary musical erudition of the Western European audience. 😅
Think kindly about working on this passage -
09.18 - 11.14
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god... that section...
Smoothly Chaotic.
I love how the baseline rises and descends chromatically just before it reaches the climax
first, i love your username
second, i love how you payed attention to that too
I play piano. Started leasons at 8. This is beautiful. I was reading the sheet music. This would take me months to learn.
rachmaninoff has lots of pieces like this! my favorite composer
I didn't know Taylor Swift could play piano at this level. Good thing she toned down her lipstick shade.
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That's G-half-diminished, not Bbm6.
I mean, they're spelled the same, but they are functionally different.
It's like using an nonharmonic, enharmonic tone when you don't need to.
(To be more clear: A(b) -> D7, G -> C7)
Yes - generally written Gm7b5
Imo Rachmaninoff Adagio of his 2nd symphony is his most gutwrenching piece
Heart wrenching isn't a strong enough description. It's like the Holy Spirit came apon Rachmaninoff when he wrote this and Anna when she plays it. I don't know any music as powerful and beautiful as this.
For me the best part is what comes next when it just gets into it, the fast loud part
At 1:20 in the original video (yes I know its only the intro to the concerto) is one of my favorite bars ever in classical music
"most heart-wrenching". Who says? Why does there have to be a GOAT in everything. This is ART, not a horserace.
This music is my mood rn fr.
Really exceptional playing as well!
her playing is my favorite version of the second concerto!
It is more heart-wrenching if you listen to the entire piece.
I love Rachmaninov, especially this piece. My first sone was born to the sound of this
Overwrought and belabored-more stomach-turning than gut-wrenching.
It sure is incredibly beautiful, but I personally wouldn‘t describe it as the most heart wrenching… You know those melodies that are almost painfully sweet and melancholic? This feels melancholic too, but also dramatic and suspenseful and.. powerful? There is a confidence behind it which gives you hope, it‘s not as vulnerable and, like I said, painfully sweet as some other parts he‘s written.
Just my interpretation, it’s soo subjective and also one thing is not better or worse than the other. 😊
very familiar. i have a CD of that entire concherto. it was used as the theme tune & incidental music in the old black& white, romantic movie, "BREIF ENCOUNTER", which was my mam's favourate, romantic movie.😊
awww
very sweet!