Paul Carasco plays Rachmaninov - Etude-tableaux Op.33 No. 9

Recorded May 2015 - Shalin Liu Concert Hall Rockport Massachusetts.
The Études-tableaux ("study pictures"), Op. 33, is the first of two sets of piano études composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. They were intended to be "picture pieces", essentially "musical evocations of external visual stimuli". But Rachmaninoff did not disclose what inspired each one, stating: "I do not believe in the artist that discloses too much of his images. Let [the listener] paint for themselves what it most suggests." However, he willingly shared sources for a few of these études with the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi when Respighi orchestrated them in 1930.
Grave in C-sharp minor - No. 8 (published as No. 6, originally No. 9)
This study was one of the three in this opus that were famously recorded in the Melodiya studios by Sviatoslav Richter, the other two being Moderato in D minor and Non allegro-Presto in E-flat minor.

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