I don’t know what it is about these Rach concertos but none of them feel like pieces of music in the traditional sense; rather journeys within his mind told through the medium of music. It’s as if with each one you can forget that it’s a composition and just experience the raw emotion he creates
i know! the other day my brother, who is not into classical music, told me he stumbled on the 2nd concerto on youtube and he said he just sat there and listened to the whole thing! he said he couldn't explain it, it was just so good, it sucked me in!
@pyrotechnic5254 I don't recall anyone asking. How about instead of diminishing others opinions in favor for your own you go and listen to your boring classics.
17:35 best moment of the 2nd movement, crystal-like tone, amazing harmony, adding the bright, light running by the flute, like floating in the sky of a wonderland full with imagination. Rachmaninov was truly a genius in both piano and composing
This is not the original version from when he was 18. It's very different than the original by the musicality and cool ideas are the same for the most part. That's proof it can't be learned. It's from his being.
Honestly modern life has so much distractions that you can't really shine in your interests anymore and especially not this young. This was quite common back then - mastering your craft this. young. I hate modernity so much everyday more than the last.
I feel privileged just for the fact that Rachmaninoff existed, that he composed wonderful masterpieces and that, fortunately, I can listen to them. His way of composing, his music makes me perceive the dimension of infinity that I've always been afraid of. Please, stop doing whatever you're doing and listen to its sea of notes ........ Rachmaninoff is simply immense.
Second movement is underrated as hell. It feels so nostalgic and beautiful, it just feels like nature. Imagine being in Germany enjoying the spring, watching nature, such a good feeling
A lot happened in music between 1891 and 1917 and Rachmaninoff's revisions reflect that in much of the harmonic subtlety his musical language had acquired. But the earlier version is truly remarkable coming from an 18-year old.
+tomekkobialka I completely agree. I've been listening to the whole 2nd movement over and over. In fact this is probably my favourite concerto by him. That moment is my favourite too all the way to the end with those delightful cascading chords.
Reviving this comment, but yes. I've heard numerous recordings and no one seems to quite nail the semi-staccato like he does. The phrasing is absolutely phenomenal.
21:02 what a beautiful surprise of glorious tempo and melodic contrast. Incredible. The entire section of this part is beyond words how hauntingly soulful this melody is sung by the piano.
I'm pretty sure rach added that section later in life (he revised this concerto in the 30s) because those chord progressions that come towards the end of that phrase sound very late-rach to me
I LOVE the first movements cadenza. Especially from 10:31 to the end 11:51. And second/third movements are even better than i remembered, what an amazing concerto
RACHMANINOV's piano concerti are my favorites ! The first is so underrated though... it feels even more modern than the following ones, i wholeheartedly love this one
That might be because this one was revised in 1917 (which is what you're hearing now). The original was mich more dissonant and clearly want written by the Rach we know today
He actually revised it in 1917. So, yes, he first composed it at age 18, but a lot of the parts that you like may have come from the revised version after he gained much more compositional experience.
Definitely an underrated masterpiece, I truly love the expressiveness and intimate lyricism! Especially in the second movement! I could not possibly imagine this piece came from the hands of a man in his 20s!
@@CalebRen well, I think the elusiveness of the meter is actually more destabilising than the chord progression, which is really a highly ornamented Neapolitan sixth progression (the G natural being the inverted seventh); it feels like a a 4/4 bar with an extra quaver (if one hears the triplets as regular quavers, which is what the heavy accent on the second note implies)... then he follows that with an even more confusing 12/8, omg
A difficult and wonderful composition by a favorite composer .. gifted as he was, still am astonished he composed most of this masterpiece before his twentieth birthday . . and that he could play it as well ..am aware of comparisons to compositions such as the Grieg and others in reviews written at the time...agreed he may have used other compositions for a template to weave his own tapestry, that said, it still seems he weaved in much of his own original inspired style .. not to mention the difficulty of the piano writing . . just reminding everyone that in addition to being one of my very favorite composers, he had a reputation as one of the most formidable pianists of his day ..
... and to join in with the magic moment times... 6.07 to 6.45 for me... had an 'ooo' moment in that section. I have heard this before but now really paying attention to it so may find other 'ooo' moments as I explore. Rachmaninoff is breathtaking :)
I think all 4 are just equally as good as one another. No 1 full of passion and Russian spirit. No 2 is so deep and sad. No 3 is kind've of a glorious battle with the passion and sadness of 1 and 2. No 4 is a mix of the other 3 but with something new added to which is very unlike Rachmaninoff, probably the americanness. So in my opinion all 4 are all ridiculously good.
This piece is based on the Grieg A Minor Piano Concerto which is why at times it sounds very similar. Rachmaninoff and his fellow students at the conservatoire were told to use a pre-existing concerto as a framework on which to build.
I know what you are talking about. You think that he made this at age 18, I thought so too. But no, this is actually the last concerto that he wrote. This is inspired by another concerto that he did for an assignment from his composition class. The students needed to do a concerto based of another. He based his on Grieg's only concerto in a minor (it would be important to mention that Grieg based his concerto on Schumann's). Just like Grieg's this one starts with the octaves going down after a short orchestral introduction. The original concerto was lost. Rachmaninoff remembered the concerto and transformed it to what you are hearing now. So he did not do this when he was 18.
@@barackobama953 It's not disappointing. Think of it this way, he wrote prelude in c sharp minor when he was 19. Oh yeah, the structure is basically the same from Grieg's concerto. However I'm pretty sure that the inspiration from Grieg is only from the first movement. The other 2 movements are new and not part of the original idea when he was 18.
Well, Rach revised this, as he was constantly doing; also bear in mind Russia's political unrest for years before he and many others left! A very difficult time we cannot know! I felt like not commenting anymore, but reading first comment of "paeffill", I thought, "What arrogance"! I think that comment didn't even deserve response!
I believe this is Rachmaninoff's greatest work. I've been listening to it since I was 6 yrs old on 78RPM back in the 1950's. One reason its not more popular is because there are so few truly great performances of it, where none of the difficult passages are faked through with half the notes missing. Byron Janis, Valentina Lisitsa, Lugansky and Pletnev are among the few that do it justice.
@@SpaghettiToaster yes, I bought Zimermans CD many years ago and I love his 2nd Concerto but to me Pletnev eclipses everyone else on the 1st Concerto ua-cam.com/video/kiCSdraoQmM/v-deo.html
@@onecello9577 its strictly a matter of taste and mood. I love Olga Kerns #3 as well as Bronfman and find it a toss up as to which is best or favorite Concerto. I recently discovered Matsuev's spellbinding performance of the 2nd which is quite overwhelming. ua-cam.com/video/LQanRa1lUSQ/v-deo.html
Wonderful Pianist !…… P. S. LOOK at the Photo of Rachmaninoff at the Beginning of this performance....SPECIFICALLY THE LENGTH OF RACHMANINOFF’S THUMB !!!!!…Rachmaninoff was the only Great Pianist in History That Could Stretch 13 White notes with one Hand ( C to A ) !!!!
Having just come from the 1st (1891) version, I somewhat miss the dissonant (F sharp augmented over B octave or C sharp octave) climactic low chords at the end (as well as the cool octave rising "scales" of the piano over those chords)...although I suppose this ending is more "light" and "fluffy" to match the overall lighter and sparkly tone of the revision.
Ecouter Sergei, c'est définitivement abolir le déferlement des bruits et des images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. La puissance expressive de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux où la couleur et le rythme des compositions constituent une expiration qui donne voix à l'exaltation 🤓
First movement excellent. Second and third a little bumpy in terms of lining. On the third , the connections are even weaker. That’s why I love n.3. That is no concerto more beautiful and complete that was ever written for piano than Rach 3
Just curious if anyone can cite a film noir movie soundtrack which quotes the First Movement main theme (1, 2, b3, 5, b5, b7...). It sounds so familiar, and I'm sure it's been at least paraphrased billions of times, but I can't find anything which gives a movie title attached to it.
I don’t know what it is about these Rach concertos but none of them feel like pieces of music in the traditional sense; rather journeys within his mind told through the medium of music. It’s as if with each one you can forget that it’s a composition and just experience the raw emotion he creates
i know! the other day my brother, who is not into classical music, told me he stumbled on the 2nd concerto on youtube and he said he just sat there and listened to the whole thing! he said he couldn't explain it, it was just so good, it sucked me in!
a world without art and music is no world at all
I look for music to feel the power and emotion of the work
@@thai-pc4jy my mom calls rachmaninoff "crapmaninoff"... its all just random notes to her... so there's that
@@Bevsworld04 Thats awful... he's my fav composer.
Yeah, I agree. Similar to a lot of Berlioz' works, a prime example being symphony fantastique (im sure you know what I mean)
I know this is overshadowed by No. 2 and No. 3, but this is amazing and criminally underrated.
Magnificent Comment...
It’s every bit as good. The cadenza is an absolute firecracker. And to think he wrote the business end of it when he was 18. What a man.
@@uscjd2004 its the second version of the concerto written way after he is18.....
@pyrotechnic5254 I don't recall anyone asking. How about instead of diminishing others opinions in favor for your own you go and listen to your boring classics.
@pyrotechnic5254 : OMG. Rachmaninov & Prokofiev are at the top
of my list. I've been a Rach fan for about 40+ yrs. However, each to
his own (LOL).
6:22 gives me chills
17:35 best moment of the 2nd movement, crystal-like tone, amazing harmony, adding the bright, light running by the flute, like floating in the sky of a wonderland full with imagination. Rachmaninov was truly a genius in both piano and composing
It remainds me kinda Harry Potter
I particularly like this part in this recording as well - those staccato notes after each group really make it I think
@@sebastianbaynes9452 I've searched for another pianist who plays it staccato and found none! playing it legato takes away the magic :(
Like anime
@@luizg8034Respectfully I disagree! I find it actually more mysterious and airy played legato :)
0:00 - Vivace
12:20 - Andante
18:55 - Allegro Vivace
17:00
how an 18 year old even had the ideas for composing this masterpiece is beyond me.
This is not the original version from when he was 18. It's very different than the original by the musicality and cool ideas are the same for the most part. That's proof it can't be learned. It's from his being.
he already had his own mature style in opus 1
Honestly modern life has so much distractions that you can't really shine in your interests anymore and especially not this young. This was quite common back then - mastering your craft this. young. I hate modernity so much everyday more than the last.
@@Ziad3195 Great point
@@Ziad3195 ain't no way you seriously believe this
Oh my god i love the second movement in this concerto, underrated masterpiece
Absolutely agree.
17:05 to the end of the mov't... just can't get enough of that!!
@@JonathanKofi haven't heard the staccatos presented so clearly before! at that section
One of fav Rach movements
17:35 THAT FLUTE! Absolutely magnificent!
It’s my favorite
You are talking about the line that is not in the 2 piano score right?
I just realized the low notes at 11:13 are the first three notes to Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor.
Not the same but close
@@donnytello1544 they're the exact same. A - G# - C#
@@jagp135 nvmd your right, I just heard it wron g
@@jagp135 its not the same harmonic outline tho
the staccato at 9:23 on the 3 notes before the accented chords...literal perfection
I feel privileged just for the fact that Rachmaninoff existed, that he composed wonderful masterpieces and that, fortunately, I can listen to them. His way of composing, his music makes me perceive the dimension of infinity that I've always been afraid of. Please, stop doing whatever you're doing and listen to its sea of notes ........ Rachmaninoff is simply immense.
Ok
2番より後に作られているが、実によく練られた構成。ⅰ10:40～憧れと切なさのこもった密集和音の連打のカデンツァ、ⅱ 13:54 媚薬のようなメロディ。16:47 宝石のちりばめられた、もはやこの世のものとも思われぬ三度と半音階のパッセージの組み合わせの間を縫ってオケがしたたり落ちる。アシュケナージがここをもっと蠱惑的に弾いている。Ⅲ22:30ここも艶やかな艶っぽいメロディ。ゲルバーが「ラフマニノフは麻薬だ」と言っていたのを思い出す。25:25人生肯定的なアグレッシブなオケのテーマの中をピアノが上から下まで縦横に技巧の限りを尽くして駆け巡り、最後は天上に昇天するような勢いである。
Second movement is underrated as hell. It feels so nostalgic and beautiful, it just feels like nature. Imagine being in Germany enjoying the spring, watching nature, such a good feeling
0:05 Intro
0:38 Theme 1
2:41 Theme 2
3:29 Development
5:22 False recap
6:48 Recap - Theme 1
8:26 Recap - Theme 2
8:59 Cadenza
11:52 Coda
12:23 Theme 1
13:39 Theme 2
15:04 Transition
15:35 Theme 1
17:05 Theme 2
18:57 A - Intro
19:14 A - Theme 1
20:06 A - Theme 2
21:05 B - Theme 1
22:11 B - Theme 2
23:02 B - Theme 1
23:58 A - Intro
24:16 A - Theme 1
25:10 A - Theme 2
26:11 Coda
Ty
A lot happened in music between 1891 and 1917 and Rachmaninoff's revisions reflect that in much of the harmonic subtlety his musical language had acquired. But the earlier version is truly remarkable coming from an 18-year old.
The modulation beginning at 15:35 is heart-stoppingly gorgeous.
22:52 to the end of that whole section is just some of the gorgeous writing I've ever heard
Scriabinesque
@@estebanabad2795 nice name
1st - - 00:39 01:11 01:00 01:54 02:42 03:06 05:22 *06:50 07:39 *08:26 *10:30 *11:24
2nd - - *13:39 15:05 *16:39
3rd - - 20:03 21:06 *22:12 *23:07 25:14
In other words, the whole thing. lol :) yeah me too
The moment from 6:08 to 7:16 takes me to another dimension!
Ugh, I could listen to that _maestoso_ passage from the 1st movement's cadenza forever. 😍😩
Christian Vennemann time stamp?
@@ban9nas177 The cadenza itself starts at 9:13, and the _maestoso_ passage starts at 11:25.
From now on I will always hear the word maestoso in italics
@@OfficialWorldChampion Fun fact: I had been misspelling _maestoso_ without the first s for the longest time.
omg gaspard
the second movement is an absolute gem, especially the Ravelien Coda... written 30 years before Ravel's Concerto in G!
This version is from 14 years before Ravel's concerto. Your point still stands 💁♂
The Andante from 17:05 is simply glorious! Thank you for uploading. :)
+tomekkobialka I completely agree. I've been listening to the whole 2nd movement over and over. In fact this is probably my favourite concerto by him. That moment is my favourite too all the way to the end with those delightful cascading chords.
staccato + legato! yes! masterful, the whole thing.
I adore it! And the 1890 version is also amazing! But it's rare to find it nowadays unfortunately :(
22.13 even more sublime
Reviving this comment, but yes. I've heard numerous recordings and no one seems to quite nail the semi-staccato like he does. The phrasing is absolutely phenomenal.
Love how the 2nd movement was interpreted here. This is such a wonderful concerto and among my favourites to put me in a good mood.
21:02 what a beautiful surprise of glorious tempo and melodic contrast. Incredible. The entire section of this part is beyond words how hauntingly soulful this melody is sung by the piano.
My favourite of his 4. That violin solo in the 1st movement before the big cadenza is just magical, esp in that key
I just wanted to say that the second movement is sublime
I can't stop listening to 21:06-21:41.
I can’t stop listening to 22:52
I can’t bear the beauty of 22:39.
I'm pretty sure rach added that section later in life (he revised this concerto in the 30s) because those chord progressions that come towards the end of that phrase sound very late-rach to me
How does anyone conceive something so beautiful?
I personally can’t bear the beauty of 22:52 Edit: the chord right on 23:04 also just hits me for some reason and i love it
Mr.Columbo ..I inhale at this point it's so beautiful
For a sec i thot you said you couldnt hear the beauty.
I for one like this concerto a lot.ought to be played more often.
Genius Rach chords at 17:59 !
3:28 is just wonderful ah
Rachmaninoff is incredible. This is personally my favorite piano concerto by him. The second movement is magical.
I LOVE the first movements cadenza. Especially from 10:31 to the end 11:51. And second/third movements are even better than i remembered, what an amazing concerto
8:36 is probably one of the most beautiful moments I've heard from Rach, same with 25:40
I love that too! And Scriabin also
This concert is a beautiful one . So pitty for underrated.
and the entire second movement esp starting from 17:04
Does anyone know what's happened to Medtnaculus? I love these score videos but noticed it's been 5 years since the last one...
I think he said he just moved on from making them or something
RACHMANINOV's piano concerti are my favorites ! The first is so underrated though... it feels even more modern than the following ones, i wholeheartedly love this one
That might be because this one was revised in 1917 (which is what you're hearing now). The original was mich more dissonant and clearly want written by the Rach we know today
Rachmaninoff was a genius!
He was beyond a genius
HE WAS A MUSICAL GENIUS AND MASTER OF RYTHM I N HIS MUSICAL WORKS AS OF ALL HIS PIANOCONCERTOS!
SHUT YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO HIS MASTER-PIECES!
This is my best love of all the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos.
Just think, Rachmaninoff composed this when he was 18...
Really? How Do u know?
@@clarapanas6657 PianoStreet and also through his composer page on Wikipedia
I was playing with mud when I was 18
@@jf2602 right?
He actually revised it in 1917. So, yes, he first composed it at age 18, but a lot of the parts that you like may have come from the revised version after he gained much more compositional experience.
The intro of the 2nd movement gives me goosebumps! So beautiful!
Definitely an underrated masterpiece, I truly love the expressiveness and intimate lyricism! Especially in the second movement! I could not possibly imagine this piece came from the hands of a man in his 20s!
14:28 My god I feel like being with You up there
19:06 How do you even compose something like this??
Ikr lol. I guess it’s alternating between C#7, Am and Fm?
This reminded me of the red riding hood at the end of the middle section
@@dz6374 The root of the chord is moving down in major 3rds to disrupt the tonality. Rachmaninoff did Coltrane changes first!
@@CalebRen Looool yes he did!
@@CalebRen well, I think the elusiveness of the meter is actually more destabilising than the chord progression, which is really a highly ornamented Neapolitan sixth progression (the G natural being the inverted seventh); it feels like a a 4/4 bar with an extra quaver (if one hears the triplets as regular quavers, which is what the heavy accent on the second note implies)... then he follows that with an even more confusing 12/8, omg
A difficult and wonderful composition by a favorite composer .. gifted as he was, still am astonished he composed most of this masterpiece before his twentieth birthday . . and that he could play it as well ..am aware of comparisons to compositions such as the Grieg and others in reviews written at the time...agreed he may have used other compositions for a template to weave his own tapestry, that said, it still seems he weaved in much of his own original inspired style .. not to mention the difficulty of the piano writing . . just reminding everyone that in addition to being one of my very favorite composers, he had a reputation as one of the most formidable pianists of his day ..
Rachmaninoff praised Tchaikovsky for the mark he left as a composer, yet I find Rachmaninoff's own music so much deeper :-)
it was said that greigs concerto was rachs favorite concerto, and he deeply dedicated his first concerto on greigs
... and to join in with the magic moment times... 6.07 to 6.45 for me... had an 'ooo' moment in that section. I have heard this before but now really paying attention to it so may find other 'ooo' moments as I explore. Rachmaninoff is breathtaking :)
10:30
What a beautiful part!
How can you not love Rachmaninoff
1:26 I like it!!!!
17:04 oh how beautiful music!😌
Best Recording Ever Of Rachmaninoff #1......( of course with the Composers #1 as well ! ).....
Sorry. But this is his best concerto. Beautifully crafted and mature. Gorgeous highs and lows of a beautifully crafted musical rollercoaster!
I think all 4 are just equally as good as one another. No 1 full of passion and Russian spirit. No 2 is so deep and sad. No 3 is kind've of a glorious battle with the passion and sadness of 1 and 2. No 4 is a mix of the other 3 but with something new added to which is very unlike Rachmaninoff, probably the americanness. So in my opinion all 4 are all ridiculously good.
Rachmanioff is a genius at composing concerto
This is the first time I heard this and WOW! What a great intro / piece
This piece is based on the Grieg A Minor Piano Concerto which is why at times it sounds very similar. Rachmaninoff and his fellow students at the conservatoire were told to use a pre-existing concerto as a framework on which to build.
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 what about Scriabin's piano concerto?
@@estebanabad2795 That was written after this concerto?
Now I see that it was written 5 years later, in 1896
@@estebanabad2795 They are both very good concertos though :-)
0:37 this is the most beautiful melody I have ever seen, and 1:00 too!
What about 17:05 ?
@@hadrieneverard8121 Definitely, that too is one of my favourites.
It almost sounds like the theme to a 19th century mad scientist
I love how Alexander plays this - it is lyrically sublime…
The second movement is gorgeous
This is the perfect recording! What a surprise, I was not aware of! Thank you so much!
17:05 obsessed with this theme
Absolutely!
2:34 words can't describe how much i love this little part ❤
3:28
I always like major scale on sorrow and this 2nd movement is a successful example
He was probably one of the only composers to completely develope and mature his style at the age of 18.
I know what you are talking about. You think that he made this at age 18, I thought so too. But no, this is actually the last concerto that he wrote. This is inspired by another concerto that he did for an assignment from his composition class. The students needed to do a concerto based of another. He based his on Grieg's only concerto in a minor (it would be important to mention that Grieg based his concerto on Schumann's). Just like Grieg's this one starts with the octaves going down after a short orchestral introduction. The original concerto was lost. Rachmaninoff remembered the concerto and transformed it to what you are hearing now. So he did not do this when he was 18.
El Fogon Del Buen Gusto oh. That’s kind of disappointing, but now that I think about it, it does sound very much like Grieg’s Concerto.
@@barackobama953 It's not disappointing. Think of it this way, he wrote prelude in c sharp minor when he was 19. Oh yeah, the structure is basically the same from Grieg's concerto. However I'm pretty sure that the inspiration from Grieg is only from the first movement. The other 2 movements are new and not part of the original idea when he was 18.
I still think he had developed his style at that age. His original transcript was remarkably advanced for his age.
Well, Rach revised this, as he was constantly doing; also bear in mind Russia's political unrest for years before he and many others left! A very difficult time we cannot know! I felt like not commenting anymore, but reading first comment of "paeffill", I thought, "What arrogance"! I think that comment didn't even deserve response!
The second part is just a song for the soul
Slight correction, it is the second movement, not part
The second movement's opening makes me really think of the prelude to Tristan and Isolde
6.06 send shivers down my spine
I believe this is Rachmaninoff's greatest work. I've been listening to it since I was 6 yrs old on 78RPM back in the 1950's. One reason its not more popular is because there are so few truly great performances of it, where none of the difficult passages are faked through with half the notes missing. Byron Janis, Valentina Lisitsa, Lugansky and Pletnev are among the few that do it justice.
it certainly feels fresh compared to No.2 & 3, but his greatest work?...
What about Zimerman?
@@SpaghettiToaster yes, I bought Zimermans CD many years ago and I love his 2nd Concerto but to me Pletnev eclipses everyone else on the 1st Concerto ua-cam.com/video/kiCSdraoQmM/v-deo.html
@@onecello9577 its strictly a matter of taste and mood. I love Olga Kerns #3 as well as Bronfman and find it a toss up as to which is best or favorite Concerto. I recently discovered Matsuev's spellbinding performance of the 2nd which is quite overwhelming. ua-cam.com/video/LQanRa1lUSQ/v-deo.html
Wonderful Pianist !…… P. S. LOOK at the Photo of Rachmaninoff at the Beginning of this performance....SPECIFICALLY THE LENGTH OF RACHMANINOFF’S THUMB !!!!!…Rachmaninoff was the only Great Pianist in History That Could Stretch 13 White notes with one Hand ( C to A ) !!!!
6:50 Midori Ito performed to this in the 1992 Albertville Olympics, winning the silver medal.
21:10 there's something very Chopin-esque about this bit!
True!
Why I did not know about this before .... That`s absolutely insane
18:00 LICHOI JAZZ
17:35
Wow! It is one of most beautiful thing in history
Having just come from the 1st (1891) version, I somewhat miss the dissonant (F sharp augmented over B octave or C sharp octave) climactic low chords at the end (as well as the cool octave rising "scales" of the piano over those chords)...although I suppose this ending is more "light" and "fluffy" to match the overall lighter and sparkly tone of the revision.
2nd Movement: 12:16
0:09
0:39
13:39
18:13
Best part
21:00
20:47 is the music that plays whenever I complete a level in a video game. Then 20:53 plays at the start of the next level, lol
Haha I don't play video grd
Games*
I love how the music is posted in real time!!!!
17:05 Simply gprgeous
Fantastic recording, don't know if it's the recording setup itself, or the mixing or the mastering but the balance and dynamics are wonderful
Thank you for putting this together! Great interpretation.
Imagine this is your first opus......
Ecouter Sergei, c'est définitivement abolir le déferlement des bruits et des images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. La puissance expressive de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux où la couleur et le rythme des compositions constituent une expiration qui donne voix à l'exaltation 🤓
Brilliantly written!! ❤
@@helloo_wooorld 🤠
This is the BEST recording of this concerto. When I am old and frail this will bring lovely memories of my past.
That piano is pure evil if you ask me it looks insanely hard! one of my favorite composers for sure!
Love this...beatiful concerto
viva la vida.
9:13 : cadenza
3:28
This sounds so much like Grieg's piano concerto!
nothing like it. Imo.
25:41 What a charm
I know I'm not allowed to listen to this kind of music, but it's so wonderful.
why are you not allowed? religion?
Very adequate speed for this concerto
First movement excellent. Second and third a little bumpy in terms of lining. On the third , the connections are even weaker. That’s why I love n.3. That is no concerto more beautiful and complete that was ever written for piano than Rach 3
This concerto reminds me of scriabin's piano concerto also in f-sharp minor
I hear it too and I'm almost certain that this 6:51 is a reference to Scriabin's Op. 2 No. 1 :)
Yeah but this f minor
17:37
best part of the song prove me wrong.
10:30 - 11:10 is the best
Ok, we have our differences however I still stand my ground.@@Helloworld-xu2ui
Fabuloso, gracias por compartir.
This is a very good recording!
Just curious if anyone can cite a film noir movie soundtrack which quotes the First Movement main theme (1, 2, b3, 5, b5, b7...). It sounds so familiar, and I'm sure it's been at least paraphrased billions of times, but I can't find anything which gives a movie title attached to it.
Just the same thougths
0:06, 11:25, 15:45, 25:15
3:29 Jesus Christ, that hit me like a ton of bricks!
2:04 why is the piano part in 6/8 but the orchestra in 2/4?
what a beautiful soul and pianist and composer was rachmaninoff,thanks alot for posting