Sitting at home on an Autumn night, sipping warm tea to soothe my rheumatoid arthritis , listening to this invigorating tune! They do not make music like this anymore! xx Many thanks to the uploader for brightening an otherwise dreary day.
@@christianvennemann9008 I wasn't sure! Thanks for the update! I think Rachmaninoff is second only to Lizst for me! I've played much of his music and I love it. Lizst is just a madman whose genius will never be reproduced, like Rachmaninoff.
@Christopher Pericolosi-King You're most welcome! As much as I love Rachmaninoff and tend to listen to his pieces more than Liszt's, I have to agree with you on Liszt
@@kubrickedup405 Well, interesting discussion that I thought was behind me but is not, as I'm re-checking on the Internet. As far as I know, the "timing" part of a piano roll is analog : holes can be found everywhere, there is no quantum of time. When the pianist punches a note, a hole appears. But for the amplitude (volume) of each note, I don't know if there is a finite set of acccessible amplitudes, that would make piano rolls digital, or if it strictly imitates the infinite ways the pianist can hit the note, that would make the process completely analog. But of course, if it was a direct Rach recording it would me much noisier.
@@raphmaninoff I wonder how they achieved so much dynamic contrast? My understanding is that piano rolls contain no dynamic information whatsoever? It's hard for me to imagine that a performance this dynamically nuanced could result from only playing back the roll. That's why I wonder if someone transcribed the roll into a DAW using MIDI, so that they could then adjust the velocity and create dynamic nuance in the DAW, and then this new MIDI "roll" would be performed by a MIDI-capable acoustic piano such as a Yamaha Disklavier. That's just my speculation. In any case, it's a delight to be able to hear Rachmaninoff's impeccable playing ("interpreted" by technology as it may be) in such clear audio quality!
I believe in this context, Associated Performer refers to the person who sets up the ‘player piano’ to perform a piano roll rendition of a piece. For instance, Wayne Stahnke (the associate performer/producer) would’ve had the final say on what tempo they would reproduce the piano roll at for this recording.
Sergei Rachmaninoff is a good composer and pianist, but in this case the performance does not correspond to the genre of music - although hopak is characterized by frequent changes in tempo, however, tempo swings within one fragment are unacceptable, since this is a dance.
Of course, Rachmaninoff add a little bit of his own twist in the end, really charming
This really is beautiful.
There's an immediacy about folk based music,a vitality
This is such a bop, I love how Rach writes the left hand for fast pieces, always a fat leap or two
This is music, indeed
Fact.
Sitting at home on an Autumn night, sipping warm tea to soothe my rheumatoid arthritis , listening to this invigorating tune! They do not make music like this anymore! xx Many thanks to the uploader for brightening an otherwise dreary day.
I want to dance with this music
Beautiful !
Beautiful 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 ❤
so genius, i love it
Beautiful and melodic! Easy to see where Rachmaninoff got inspiration from. Or perhaps vice versa lol.
The first part of your comment is correct. Mussorgsky died in 1881, 4 days before Rachmaninoff turned 8
@@christianvennemann9008 I wasn't sure! Thanks for the update! I think Rachmaninoff is second only to Lizst for me! I've played much of his music and I love it. Lizst is just a madman whose genius will never be reproduced, like Rachmaninoff.
@Christopher Pericolosi-King You're most welcome! As much as I love Rachmaninoff and tend to listen to his pieces more than Liszt's, I have to agree with you on Liszt
I didn’t realize this was released in 1998. Rachmaninoff must have very good health genes.
This is music
You don't say
One of the pieces of all time
This is a comment
Rachmaninoff was perhaps together with Busoni and Giseseking the best piano player ever.
What a marvelous arrangement and performance! Is this a MIDI transcription of the piano roll, realized through a virtual instrument?
It is a 1997 recording of a modern piano playing his piano roll from 1925, no digital intervention here (except in the mic)
No digital intervention, except the piano roll. If this was a real Rach recording it would be much noisier
@@kubrickedup405 Well, interesting discussion that I thought was behind me but is not, as I'm re-checking on the Internet. As far as I know, the "timing" part of a piano roll is analog : holes can be found everywhere, there is no quantum of time. When the pianist punches a note, a hole appears. But for the amplitude (volume) of each note, I don't know if there is a finite set of acccessible amplitudes, that would make piano rolls digital, or if it strictly imitates the infinite ways the pianist can hit the note, that would make the process completely analog.
But of course, if it was a direct Rach recording it would me much noisier.
@@raphmaninoff I wonder how they achieved so much dynamic contrast? My understanding is that piano rolls contain no dynamic information whatsoever? It's hard for me to imagine that a performance this dynamically nuanced could result from only playing back the roll. That's why I wonder if someone transcribed the roll into a DAW using MIDI, so that they could then adjust the velocity and create dynamic nuance in the DAW, and then this new MIDI "roll" would be performed by a MIDI-capable acoustic piano such as a Yamaha Disklavier. That's just my speculation. In any case, it's a delight to be able to hear Rachmaninoff's impeccable playing ("interpreted" by technology as it may be) in such clear audio quality!
what does associated performer mean?
I believe in this context, Associated Performer refers to the person who sets up the ‘player piano’ to perform a piano roll rendition of a piece. For instance, Wayne Stahnke (the associate performer/producer) would’ve had the final say on what tempo they would reproduce the piano roll at for this recording.
@@milbournmusic i see, thanks for the explanation!
He just loves to ignore dynamics lol
The person who posted this is not music , compose better if you can 🤣🤣 .
Sergei Rachmaninoff is a good composer and pianist, but in this case the performance does not correspond to the genre of music - although hopak is characterized by frequent changes in tempo, however, tempo swings within one fragment are unacceptable, since this is a dance.
this is not music
Wrong. You've just been brainwashed by Wölfl, that inferior composer, and his "music"
What
@@juicedelemon I only comment this under that which is not music.
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It appears you are the only one who thinks this is not music.