In the 80s had the privilege to see Maestro Svetlanovand and the Russian State Orchestra at the Pasedena Auditorium :Los Angeles :playing The Rock and Kallinikov Symp nr 1 ,what a glrorious night ,i think he is one of the best conductor to interpreter Russian music The Maestro signed both Melodya Records and we shook hands ,the records are still in my possession ,What a treasure ! Thank you Gino
Actually the symphony poem is written after the Lermontov's poem of the same name "the Cliff" (the Rock) depicting a golden cloud resting at night on a chest of a giant mighty cliff after a reckless and joyful day's ride... after the cloud has flown away with the other clouds, the cliff has dropped a tear being affected by a sudden love to the beautiful and light cloud... so there is nothing related to the visual row in the video. All these paintings actually are closer to the other group of Russian composers which is usually referred to as the Mighty Little Heap (or the Mighty Five)... they really were involved in publicistic themes and discussions about the justice, liberal ideas and so on... while Rachmaninov, being a younger fellow, was more romantic at that time... Though Rachmaninov was briefly familiar with Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and was a friend of many contemporary to him artists, himself he was not of politically inspired artists. All those paintings of Venetsianov, Vassiliev, Fedotov, Savrasov and especially Flavitsky have nothing even distantly related to Rachmaninov's musical credo... They are of conceptually different epochs. The Bells is written on text of Edgar Poe, The Island of the Dead is after Arnold Bocklin's painting, the Second piano sonata was inspired by Goethe's Faust, among his works there are the Variations on theme of Corelli and Chopin. Even his last works - most tragic and profound The Third symphony, the Three Russian songs, the Fourth piano concert, the Rapsody on theme of Paganiny and the Symphonic Dances are inspired by ... and are far away from idyllic Venetsianov's paintings, genre pictures of Fedotov and Perov, Barbisonian school inspired Vassiliev's paintings and impressionistic Savrssov. The Cliff is a symphonic poem with a strict program. There is no need in creating of a new visual alternative that has nothing merely close to author's original idea. Sorry for so many words :)
Your comment is old, so you won't see this, but the crag was not actually written after that poem. That was just what Rachmaninoff put on the public program, though in private, it was revealed that he wrote it after Cheknov's Along the Way; supposedly he didn't want to reveal using someone's work whom he had not yet met, or perhaps he feared backlash of some sort.
Probably one of the most underrated Rachmaninoff pieces.
In the 80s had the privilege to see Maestro Svetlanovand and the Russian State Orchestra at the Pasedena Auditorium :Los Angeles :playing The Rock and Kallinikov Symp nr 1 ,what a glrorious night ,i think he is one of the best conductor to interpreter Russian music The Maestro signed both Melodya Records and we shook hands ,the records are still in my possession ,What a treasure ! Thank you Gino
Actually the symphony poem is written after the Lermontov's poem of the same name "the Cliff" (the Rock) depicting a golden cloud resting at night on a chest of a giant mighty cliff after a reckless and joyful day's ride... after the cloud has flown away with the other clouds, the cliff has dropped a tear being affected by a sudden love to the beautiful and light cloud... so there is nothing related to the visual row in the video. All these paintings actually are closer to the other group of Russian composers which is usually referred to as the Mighty Little Heap (or the Mighty Five)... they really were involved in publicistic themes and discussions about the justice, liberal ideas and so on... while Rachmaninov, being a younger fellow, was more romantic at that time... Though Rachmaninov was briefly familiar with Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and was a friend of many contemporary to him artists, himself he was not of politically inspired artists. All those paintings of Venetsianov, Vassiliev, Fedotov, Savrasov and especially Flavitsky have nothing even distantly related to Rachmaninov's musical credo... They are of conceptually different epochs. The Bells is written on text of Edgar Poe, The Island of the Dead is after Arnold Bocklin's painting, the Second piano sonata was inspired by Goethe's Faust, among his works there are the Variations on theme of Corelli and Chopin. Even his last works - most tragic and profound The Third symphony, the Three Russian songs, the Fourth piano concert, the Rapsody on theme of Paganiny and the Symphonic Dances are inspired by ... and are far away from idyllic Venetsianov's paintings, genre pictures of Fedotov and Perov, Barbisonian school inspired Vassiliev's paintings and impressionistic Savrssov.
The Cliff is a symphonic poem with a strict program. There is no need in creating of a new visual alternative that has nothing merely close to author's original idea.
Sorry for so many words :)
Your comment is old, so you won't see this, but the crag was not actually written after that poem. That was just what Rachmaninoff put on the public program, though in private, it was revealed that he wrote it after Cheknov's Along the Way; supposedly he didn't want to reveal using someone's work whom he had not yet met, or perhaps he feared backlash of some sort.
I seriously want this played at my funeral.
Rakmaninov is just a god XD
How did I not know this existed!?
Да вот же она , Сила Божия , способная изменить жизнь человека.
Great quotation! Says it all about the unique position great music holds in the pantheon of all the arts.
Thanks for uploading!
8:20 just as exciting as jumping of the cilff !
Wonderful !
I have always thought that russian culture is a very gothic culture in its nature, and it looks like maestro Rachmaninoff was of the same opinion.
Just to see, if I understand you right (and if I do, I wholeheartedly agree), what do you mean by "gothic?"
lovely! thank-you very much...
Amazing
I guess not. Haha
I found it later however, it is "Princess Tarakanova" by Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky.
I wasn't familiar with this piece, but hearing it, I like it. I can't hear a hint of Debussy.
I can hear Debussy
I am wondering if Stravinsky borrowed a bit from Sergi. Many of the progressions an much of the orchestration sounds similar to Rite and Firebird.
So the great Russian masestro does it again, always superior in Russian music to any other conductor.
Might I ask if you know the title of the painting at 13:24?
Thanks.
"Princess Tarakanova"
This is KNYAZHNA TARAKANOVA by a russian painter
Sounds more like Rimsky than Rach.
I read it was dedicated to him
Well, you might ask, but it doesn't seem you'll get an answer . . .
much better than Bethoven , by a rock landslide