We all must die. Only a few rare individuals leave behind them a contribution to humanity that is timeless. in that sense, Rachmaninoff's genius is still with us and probably always will be as long as humanity endures.
@@mysteriev7071 0:30, 0:52, 1:50? There are so much more, just an example. PS: It is called resolving because it redirects the existing tension towards a consonant chord that gives a feeling of stability and conclusion. The resolutions that I have marked are meaningless by themselves if the tension that precedes them is not listended to or is not taken into consideration.
@@rubencanton1223 thanks for the insight, appreciate it. Where can I get similar analysis for other pieces (such as the Isle of the Dead or 2nd Symphony)? Most other analysis that I read, just say stuff about leitmotifs and theme development, or just theory but without analyzing the emotional impact like you did.
What many people mistake for lack of emotion in this interpretation, is actually the lack of dramatism, which is, likely, intentional. And in a lot of cases, dramatism works like a double-edged sword; depending on the interpretation and audience it might add expression to the piece or make it sound campy. It is also a hard tool to master; if you can't feel it, you better not fake it. We had a joke about pianists - the first thing they learn in music school is faking an orgasm in front of a piano. So, if I had to describe this interpretation, it would be - honest. It's an honest interpretation of Rachmaninoff's work.
Not to count how precise a lack of dramatism is in a play such as this, an elegie. It is not a surprise that, sometimes, great sadness -at least in my experience- expresses itself not that much as an intense, dramatic pain, but rather as an unhurried melancholy, a quiet sense of nothingness, as if our inner world was drowsy and numb. I believe such sad numbness is perfectly expressed here. Thank you for your comment, it was very precise.
I don't know why I feel peaceful when I listen to this piece . I've struggled from insomnia a lot , but everytime that I listen to this specific piece I sleep like a baby.
This elegy by Rachmaninov is as beautiful as it is sad. She seems to be talking about the heartache of a man who has lost everything. This is especially true at the end. It's an ending that rolls head over heels down the mountain to the ground - heartbreaking, furious and bitter. You can’t help but imagine how during it a person throws his hands up and screams of pain and suffering, falling to his knees and crying. A very touching tune. Эта элегия Рахманинова столь же прекрасна, сколь и грустна. Кажется, она говорит о душевной боли человека, потерявшего все. Особенно это заметно в конце. Это финал, который кувырком скатывается с горы на землю - душераздирающий, яростный и горький. Нельзя не представить, как во время него человек вскидывает руки и кричит от боли и страдания, падает на колени и плачет. Очень трогательная мелодия.
I love that weird crying like note just after 0:50 that would have been in the 6th measure of the page in the treble clef. It isn't in the sheet but i feel it conveys so much emotion it just has to be acknowledged.
I started listening to Rachmaninoff a few months ago (before that I only knew Liebeslied) and I've been obsessed with the Piano Concerto no2 lately. I just discovered this elegie and it is incredibly beautiful and moving, I might try to learn it if my level is good enough
I like the interpretation and I say that as someone who learns piano for more than 10 years. It's very simple. A lot of people (mjsicians or not) have a romanticized vision about playing romantic peaces, overdramatized, and expressing too much emotions. But in my opinion a simply, honestly played slow romantic peace can touch the audiance more than an exaggerated one. There are peaces that require that type of interpretation but this isnt one of them.
Amateurs play romantic pieces with way too much rubato and "expressive", short phrasing. Semi-professionals simplify everything because they understand the music on a higher level. But true professionals add just the right nuance and elegant, long phrasing that it sounds perfect.
This is beautiful and thank you for this beautiful sharing the same passion. I liked the way of interpretation. I enjoy reading scores at the same time following. I am a pianist and I love spending time at the piano.
You can comment negatively on the piece. But do you really have to insult others who can appreciate this interpretation? And yes, I liked the performance :)
Nice playing man! I'm in the process of learning this piece, and your version is by far the most easy to interpret, and follow along to. It's such a beautiful and expressive piece.
I'm currently studying it for ABRSM Grade 8 at age 61. Ageing brain makes it a challenge but I'll get it. It's a bit depressing though, to read so many harsh criticisms of what is by any account an excellent performance. It makes me wonder why I bother, then I remember, it's what I want to do and if anyone doesn't like how I play, fuck them. I do wonder how many self appointed critics of music on here can do better. Few would be my guess. We live in a critical age.
From the comments below i understood that you are not a professional pianist.. and that's a pity. I find your interpretation really moving and expressive :) Indeed you have some problems in your sound and voicing but you really play from your heart. And that's the most important. :) Pease keep making music. :)
Try listen to Clara Schumann's piano work(written by Clara) and see whether you have similar feel again. I did feel despite both are obviously influenced by Chopin, Rachmaninoff demonstrate a lot more creativity...
I will play this for grade 8, 2020. I hope it goes well, some parts are really hard and some parts you need to give it a lot of effort like the last part
Rachmaninoff lo toca mucho más rápido y , por supuesto, con toda su genialidad. Pero a mí este tempo me gusta mucho más, y el sonido de este piano es muy profundo, perfecto para esta obra. No me canso de escuchar esta fabulosa pieza.
I dont know what are you saying but this interpretation is probably my favorite. the stilness and evenness of this playing is exactly how I see it. I only think the ending is not played with the technicque composer intended
0:04 - 0:21 Feels like a man has gone through the worst nightmares and hardest time ever and is ready to face off death without any sort of emotion or fear.
Безумных лет угасшее веселье Мне тяжело, как смутное похмелье. Но, как вино - печаль минувших дней В моей душе чем старе, тем сильней. Мой путь уныл. Сулит мне труд и горе Грядущего волнуемое море. Но не хочу, о други, умирать; Я жить хочу, чтоб мыслить и страдать; И ведаю, мне будут наслажденья Меж горестей, забот и треволненья: Порой опять гармонией упьюсь, Над вымыслом слезами обольюсь, И может быть - на мой закат печальный Блеснет любовь улыбкою прощальной А.С. Пушкин 1830 As leaden as the aftermath of wine Is the dead mirth of my delirious days; And as wine waxes strong with age, so weighs More heavily the past on my decline. My path is dim. The future’s troubled sea Foretokens only toil and grief to me. But oh! my friends, I do not ask to die! I crave more life, more dreams, more agony! Midmost the care, the panic, the distress, I know that I shall taste of happiness. Once more I shall be drunk on strains divine, Be moved to tears by musings that are mine; And haply when the last sad hour draws nigh. Love with a farewell smile may gild the sky. A. S. Puskin, 1830 Translated by Hon. M. Baring
Guauu, so many too much beauty in this Rachmaninoff's piece of piano. Rachmaninoff made precious music, try listen "Zdes Korosho" singing by Anna Netrebko, is the most beautiful song that i ever heard
This is a great performance, but I wish there was more of a Romantic era quality about it. This seems too mechanical for the time it was written in. Your interpretation is great in its own way, but I would've liked to hear more emotion coming from the piano. At least, that's how I believe Rachmaninoff would have intended it to be. Again though, that's just my opinion, and the performance was technically flawless. :)
Omg !!!!! what a great perfomance, amazing !! congrats, i love it, you melted my heart hahaha, My dream is to play this one, is definately one of the most beautiful pieces ever !
![Chopin Nocturne Op.72 No.1 [w/Score] | Ezekiel Azzaretti](/img/n.gif)
Ahhh... simply beautiful. I am just a genius.
lol i think you played better
Sergei Rachmaninoff pwahahha
Polar Plays stupid child... Being dead doesn't mean not to be a genius... Just GTFO.
Sergei Rachmaninoff The
We all must die. Only a few rare individuals leave behind them a contribution to humanity that is timeless. in that sense, Rachmaninoff's genius is still with us and probably always will be as long as humanity endures.
only rachmaninoff and chopin could resolve minor chords like that, man.
And Liszt
Could you pin point the exact moment please?
Franck too
@@mysteriev7071 0:30, 0:52, 1:50? There are so much more, just an example.
PS: It is called resolving because it redirects the existing tension towards a consonant chord that gives a feeling of stability and conclusion. The resolutions that I have marked are meaningless by themselves if the tension that precedes them is not listended to or is not taken into consideration.
@@rubencanton1223 thanks for the insight, appreciate it. Where can I get similar analysis for other pieces (such as the Isle of the Dead or 2nd Symphony)?
Most other analysis that I read, just say stuff about leitmotifs and theme development, or just theory but without analyzing the emotional impact like you did.
What many people mistake for lack of emotion in this interpretation, is actually the lack of dramatism, which is, likely, intentional. And in a lot of cases, dramatism works like a double-edged sword; depending on the interpretation and audience it might add expression to the piece or make it sound campy. It is also a hard tool to master; if you can't feel it, you better not fake it.
We had a joke about pianists - the first thing they learn in music school is faking an orgasm in front of a piano.
So, if I had to describe this interpretation, it would be - honest. It's an honest interpretation of Rachmaninoff's work.
Not to count how precise a lack of dramatism is in a play such as this, an elegie. It is not a surprise that, sometimes, great sadness -at least in my experience- expresses itself not that much as an intense, dramatic pain, but rather as an unhurried melancholy, a quiet sense of nothingness, as if our inner world was drowsy and numb. I believe such sad numbness is perfectly expressed here.
Thank you for your comment, it was very precise.
Sorry but only very bad pianists fake orgasms, the good ones make the audience feel an orgasm...
WOW
So true! An honest interpretation!
Well man I've read and appreciated your words
Wow! I’ve never heard this piece. It’s beautiful!
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I don't know why I feel peaceful when I listen to this piece . I've struggled from insomnia a lot , but everytime that I listen to this specific piece I sleep like a baby.
One of my favourite pieces to listen before I go to sleep
Mine too
This elegy by Rachmaninov is as beautiful as it is sad. She seems to be talking about the heartache of a man who has lost everything. This is especially true at the end. It's an ending that rolls head over heels down the mountain to the ground - heartbreaking, furious and bitter. You can’t help but imagine how during it a person throws his hands up and screams of pain and suffering, falling to his knees and crying. A very touching tune.
Эта элегия Рахманинова столь же прекрасна, сколь и грустна. Кажется, она говорит о душевной боли человека, потерявшего все. Особенно это заметно в конце. Это финал, который кувырком скатывается с горы на землю - душераздирающий, яростный и горький. Нельзя не представить, как во время него человек вскидывает руки и кричит от боли и страдания, падает на колени и плачет. Очень трогательная мелодия.
im here to tell you about my awesome and favorite piano teacher,it was last music we did together
I am afraid to say that this is indeed my favorite interpretation of this wonderful and enigmatic piece. Thank you very much for uploading this!
Have you heard Rachmaninoff play it?
I love that weird crying like note just after 0:50 that would have been in the 6th measure of the page in the treble clef. It isn't in the sheet but i feel it conveys so much emotion it just has to be acknowledged.
I believe it's the harmonics of the low Ebb/D that give this crying feeling
I like this piece so much!
People are being so rude about this recording. I think it sounds really good for an electric piano
It takes a lot of talent to make things sound good on an electric piano
I started listening to Rachmaninoff a few months ago (before that I only knew Liebeslied) and I've been obsessed with the Piano Concerto no2 lately. I just discovered this elegie and it is incredibly beautiful and moving, I might try to learn it if my level is good enough
Rachmaninoff's masterpiece...
Unironically my favorite interpretation of this piece
who is playing it?
Meraviglioso...come sempre!♡
I like the interpretation and I say that as someone who learns piano for more than 10 years. It's very simple. A lot of people (mjsicians or not) have a romanticized vision about playing romantic peaces, overdramatized, and expressing too much emotions. But in my opinion a simply, honestly played slow romantic peace can touch the audiance more than an exaggerated one. There are peaces that require that type of interpretation but this isnt one of them.
Amateurs play romantic pieces with way too much rubato and "expressive", short phrasing. Semi-professionals simplify everything because they understand the music on a higher level. But true professionals add just the right nuance and elegant, long phrasing that it sounds perfect.
thanx for the share i havent known this piece of Sergei
It really touches my heart!!!
I'll be playing this for an AMUS piece. In the midst of learning right now and I'm loving it.
i dated a girl named Ella Gee in Moscow , when i was 4. Her parents did not, however, approve of me.
Ella was 27.
good to know
Did I misread? You were 4 years old?
AOE it was probably a typo. He was probably 14.
50 Set Chemistry or maybe 40
why are there 97 likes on this comment?
Very nice. Thank you for including the sheet music.
i flunked my math test listening to this while studying.....hahaha
So much for Classical music improving cognitive abilities :)
RiceBowlFactory Lol listening to this trying to study for the ACT...NOT advised
don't you have to go write the wealth of nations or something? Wow
RiceBowlFactory
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This is beautiful and thank you for this beautiful sharing the same passion. I liked the way of interpretation. I enjoy reading scores at the same time following. I am a pianist and I love spending time at the piano.
You can comment negatively on the piece. But do you really have to insult others who can appreciate this interpretation? And yes, I liked the performance :)
Nice playing man! I'm in the process of learning this piece, and your version is by far the most easy to interpret, and follow along to. It's such a beautiful and expressive piece.
This is sound like a Pancho Vladigerov”style at the moment”s I love it ❤️
It's a gem of a music.
Horrifyingly melancholic and inevitably stunning
Rafik Baladi yv
I'm studying this for my piano final exams, you're really helping me, great cover! :)
I'm currently studying it for ABRSM Grade 8 at age 61. Ageing brain makes it a challenge but I'll get it. It's a bit depressing though, to read so many harsh criticisms of what is by any account an excellent performance. It makes me wonder why I bother, then I remember, it's what I want to do and if anyone doesn't like how I play, fuck them. I do wonder how many self appointed critics of music on here can do better. Few would be my guess. We live in a critical age.
@@984francis how did it go?
I had searched this piece for long time.. and it appeared on me by itself :)
Lovely piece
So beautiful. I have never heard anything of Rachmaninov's that I do not like. :)
From the comments below i understood that you are not a professional pianist.. and that's a pity. I find your interpretation really moving and expressive :) Indeed you have some problems in your sound and voicing but you really play from your heart. And that's the most important. :) Pease keep making music. :)
Beautiful music
Sounds like a Chopin nocturne.
And so much beauty.
+Sam M I thought the same thing. Nocturne in E minor isn't it ?
+Sam M I tought the same thing
Try listen to Clara Schumann's piano work(written by Clara) and see whether you have similar feel again. I did feel despite both are obviously influenced by Chopin, Rachmaninoff demonstrate a lot more creativity...
yea better than Chopin
Гениальное произведение!
Brilhante interpretação. Composição espetacular. Não se espera outra coisa de Rachmaninoff...
Amazing interpretation 💗
I so happy that it ends in minor and Not like other pieces that switch to major in the end.
Beautiful
Beautiful, Brian. I do not care about the criticisms that were written below! Congratulations.
Very beautiful music.
My dear Elisa. I don't know if I loved this song after hearing you or if I loved you after hearing it.
So beautiful. I hear Chopin and Liszt wrapped up in Rachmaninoff’s Russian lyricism.
Im having to learn this for my grade 8 next year, have mercy on me
Me too! I am winning but hours of practise each day....
Wow, me too. Some parts are really hard to give the emotion, but I think we will make it ;)
I will play this for grade 8, 2020. I hope it goes well, some parts are really hard and some parts you need to give it a lot of effort like the last part
I’m only 5th grade and play it well enough
It’s not hard like facture,it’s hard to be played with feeling
@@lililiil244 Yes you are right thats what I was saying
i can play this in an unofficial grade 4 (i havent done the officiall test but my teacher believes im gr 4) so iDK
phrasing is honestly the hardest part, as with any piece, but esp with this
Meanwhile I’m in grade 5 and I struggle playing the first page of the piece lol 😭
Rachmaninoff lo toca mucho más rápido y , por supuesto, con toda su genialidad. Pero a mí este tempo me gusta mucho más, y el sonido de este piano es muy profundo, perfecto para esta obra. No me canso de escuchar esta fabulosa pieza.
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Сомневаюсь что такие есть
Бездушные циники....
Flippin' awesome
Pls reply me, it's been 7 years, lol
How's life?
5:27 pushes me over the edge.. christ that ending
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masterpiece
THANK YOU!!!....
+james alden Agree :)
This is so good
12 years old and about to start this piece !
I dont know what are you saying but this interpretation is probably my favorite. the stilness and evenness of this playing is exactly how I see it. I only think the ending is not played with the technicque composer intended
Yes to me the stillness and evenness just sounds perfect IMO! Saved it on my classical playlist!
sounds like the beauty of a Chopin nocturne
Great! 👍💓
Just Superb!!!’
That harmonic change at 2:25...whew.
0:04 - 0:21
Feels like a man has gone through the worst nightmares and hardest time ever and is ready to face off death without any sort of emotion or fear.
The beginning reminds me of Scriabin etude in D# minor op. 8 no.12. They are the same key after all
takes breath
*THIS IS IN E FLAT MINOR!!!*
Щедрый рыцарь - Рахманинов Сергей Васильевич!!!
Its emotionless? I feel its totally emotional. It may be played by synthesizer but notes are definately recorded.
Magic
I Love this one :(
좋타
If I ever get to play rachmaninoff that's it for me
OVER 9000!!!
What a genius.
Безумных лет угасшее веселье
Мне тяжело, как смутное похмелье.
Но, как вино - печаль минувших дней
В моей душе чем старе, тем сильней.
Мой путь уныл. Сулит мне труд и горе
Грядущего волнуемое море.
Но не хочу, о други, умирать;
Я жить хочу, чтоб мыслить и страдать;
И ведаю, мне будут наслажденья
Меж горестей, забот и треволненья:
Порой опять гармонией упьюсь,
Над вымыслом слезами обольюсь,
И может быть - на мой закат печальный
Блеснет любовь улыбкою прощальной
А.С. Пушкин 1830
As leaden as the aftermath of wine
Is the dead mirth of my delirious days;
And as wine waxes strong with age, so weighs
More heavily the past on my decline.
My path is dim. The future’s troubled sea
Foretokens only toil and grief to me.
But oh! my friends, I do not ask to die!
I crave more life, more dreams, more agony!
Midmost the care, the panic, the distress,
I know that I shall taste of happiness.
Once more I shall be drunk on strains divine,
Be moved to tears by musings that are mine;
And haply when the last sad hour draws nigh.
Love with a farewell smile may gild the sky.
A. S. Puskin, 1830 Translated by Hon. M. Baring
Guauu, so many too much beauty in this Rachmaninoff's piece of piano. Rachmaninoff made precious music, try listen "Zdes Korosho" singing by Anna Netrebko, is the most beautiful song that i ever heard
This is a great performance, but I wish there was more of a Romantic era quality about it. This seems too mechanical for the time it was written in. Your interpretation is great in its own way, but I would've liked to hear more emotion coming from the piano. At least, that's how I believe Rachmaninoff would have intended it to be.
Again though, that's just my opinion, and the performance was technically flawless. :)
+Nathan Conti it s the worst performance of it.Awfully lacking in style and passion.
+Nathan Conti I believe that this was done on computer
There is
La escucho todos los días, es una necesidad. Espero que esto se acabe porque no puedo seguir así.
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Det er bare fantastisk!
🧡
beaitiful
Keeeeee 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
probably the only rachmaninoff piece i can play lol
bravo from Louis 14 Y old
❤️❤️😭❤️
i love this recording, probably not that true to sergei's intentions but amazing nonetheless
Year 2022 👍🤤
bravooo
Does annyone know on what pianobrand this could be played it. Sounds really good!
Omg !!!!! what a great perfomance, amazing !! congrats, i love it, you melted my heart hahaha, My dream is to play this one, is definately one of the most beautiful pieces ever !
Sounds soft but classy.
Eden.
If you can't take it,go cry to your mummy--she will always like you...
i studied this
Check out Gabopatwe play it wonderfully.The boy is in Botswana, Africa . Search him on UA-cam 🇧🇼
i love this song!
Anyone know where you can buy a good edition of this beautiful composition?
♡
Your dad just calls me Katya
finale.avi
Катя!
Wow the amount of professional Pianists in this comment section is amazing
4:16 onward gets me every time. But I'd have to say 2:21 is my favorite.
Prego di ascoltare l’interpretazione del Maestro Sergio Fiorentino.