Eteri Andjaparidze in Masterclass with Yeom Kyoung Ah Sergei Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 Filmed by Kinovar Productions at Steinway Hall, New York, 2010
this is SO inspiring !!!! I have been struggling with this piece for over 20 years and now I honestly feel that I can make a fresh start now after this masterclass of a truly great musician and pianist
I love the way the closing 3 or 4 variations were welded into a single, massive statement. With that heart-breaking final one, I do not see Rachmaninov looking to Russia (it's not such a destination of our hopes these days), but gazing out into an unlimited future, a future filled with the piano masterworks he was never to write. It's like he has expended his rage and is teaching us that what is to come will be broader, beyond our imagining yet possible to catch glimpses of. Such a hopeful and desolate farewell. It always brings tears to my eyes.