Игра воды. Роса. Туман. Утренний сон. Лирика. Романтизм. Красота природы и Души. Высокая чувствительность. Внутренняя чистота и оригинальность музыкального мышления. Всё это слышим мы в этой Музыке. Спасибо Автору за сочинение.
I think we should be honest with ourselves... Rachmaninoff knew what he was doing. In the first movement, he really didn't change anything other than cut out a few unnecessary passages. More or less the same with the second movement, apart from the middle section where it's scales instead of jarring chords. However, the third movement was pretty much completely rewritten. The last 5 minutes are essentially another piece of music. If I'm not mistaken, I think I can even hear his name as opposed to the 3 chords which end the 1941 version. It seems almost as if the story is different. In the 1926 version, it seems more pesimistic; a sequence which goes on and on in a world of darkness. However in the 1941 version, there's a palpable sense of victory, almost a beacon of hope. Perhaps this rewriting was more to do with his mindset than the gramatical errors of the sequences. 1941 isn't exactly an optimistic time in history, and yet in that version it seems as if he was more at peace with whatever he was thinking when this concerto was written.
É uno stupendo concerto, una serie di variazioni, mirabimente composte, partendo dall'esposizione iniziale dei violoncelli.Un capolavoro del RK maturo.
To be fair, the Etude-Tableau was never published in his lifetime so it makes sense for him wanting to use that theme somewhere... and at least he added lovely improvisational passages over it! (which sadly is replaced by rather flat repeated chords in the 1941 version...)
@@musicboiscores Yes, I knew that! I'm not saying Rachmaninov is lazy or anything, this theme fits really well here. I feel it has more purpose than in the original Etude which, to me, feels like two completely unrelated ideas he didn't know how to use elsewhere. I'm glad he found a way in this beautiful concerto
What a great homage. I almost cried when I heard the quote of the concert etude at the end of movement 2. RIP Kapustin. One of the most underrated greats.
Very interesting from the perspective of a composer; While I am probably biased by my knowledge of the “final” version, which I consider an absolute masterpiece, I can understand why he revised it. I probably need to listen to this version a few more times, but especially the third movement seems less connected than the 1941 version. Thank you for all this work!!
The dreamy, fairy-tale-like atmosphere of the second romance really fits the theme "birthday". I wonder if it is a cultural thing specific to Japan. The "birthday" feels like a distant childhood memory, with a beauty which almost appears to be ameliorated from hindsight, too good to be true. The other-worldly carefreeness and naivety, feelings of being loved by someone.
and the pianist is so good at emotional ritardando / Rallentando, love the first romance's rall. That really brings me to a different world, into the G minor meno mosso
The opening really touches me for the repeated I chord (F Maj), going up to E then back down to I (traveling through the minor iv for a "mixed" feeling).
