Rachmaninoff plays Elegie op.3 n.1 

Well Rach himself is playing so does dynamics on sheet rly matter if the composer himself is playing

@@g.d.c12 I agree with you, I ignore some dynamics in my own pieces too

This is a piano roll, so it doesn’t completely note down the dynamics and expressions, listen to his 30s and 40s recordings to get an idea of his real playing

@@SCRIABINIST yeah? why do you say it is a roll? the vid description only say “rach himself.” i didn’t think piano rolls back then could capture any dynamics at all - this recording clearly has dynamic changes.

@@sssnacksss If it was a real Rachmaninoff recording, it wouldn’t be nearly this high quality. This must’ve been recorded on a modern player piano with modern recording technology. Check all the credible sources, Rachmaninoff never recorded the Elegy on acoustic recording, the poster of this video wasn’t specific in clarifying. Hope that explains.

Yep-it isn’t sappy, just convincing emotion.

Rachmaninov recorded it on a piano roll, which was then played back and recorded using modern technology

That may mean the dynamics as not completely accurate as i believe player pianos can only record one channel of velocity/dynamics.

An amazing piece and played very convincingly. At 3’37 he plays a G flat in the right hand, which sounds very strange against the G natural in the left hand. The score also says it should be a G natural. However, after hearing it several times I think the G flat doesn’t sound so bad anymore. Is the natural sign maybe from the publisher?

​@@RikMaxSpeed you should look into zenph studios re-recordings, it's really crazy how accurately their piano can replay old recordings, dynamics and all.

​@@jboekhoven5253 maybe rachmaninoff messed up in his performance 🤔

De los mejores de alla🤩

No no no, there is not a unique way to play it. P. Serebriakov, excellent Russian pianist , plays it in the way you describe it. Very moody, reverie like. Convincing result. The way Rachmaninov plays represents the pianistic ideal of interpretation in his time: steel and passion.

Tempos were much faster then. Nowadays playing slowly is supposed to show how subtle, thoughtful, and deep we are - all very noble, to be sure, but also rather boring. Maybe that's why the classical music audience is slowly but surely ageing out.

Dont know but I love it!

@@nicos_piano me too!!

On purpose

Well Rachmaninov did have very large hands.

😂😂👍

Thank you for saying that! I completely agree, the G natural hurts my ears

Which is right? G naturals or Gb’s?

@@janehartman6871 older editions have G natural, however Rachmaninoff, Idil Biret, Zoltan Kocsis play G-flat. The Henle urtext has G-flat as an alternative

it's you again! what are the odds? are you always a complete knob?

​@@isaacbeen2087you calling me a knob for this? LMAO. It's an obvious mistake by an illiterate editor, one that rachmaninoff himself would criticize.

This piece was written by Rachmaninoff?

@@gambia1011 I believe it is a Scriabin work.

@@kwgm8578 🤣

You have to be very careful about what you have received from your teacher, because you are multiple generations away from Clara Schumann and especially during the 20th century the approach to performance practice changed completely. One may be tempted to say that Rachmaninov was allowed to do this only because it was his own music, and that this is therefore an exception; but comparing it to other sources shows that this recording is actually a perfect example of freedoms of interpretation that were normal at the time for anyone to take.

@@simonalbrecht9435 Thank you, Simon.

Yes

Сам Рахманинов. Это восстановленная старая запись.

You must not have listened to Rachmaninoff a lot. Check out for example Prelude Op. 23 No 4, Prelude Op. 32 no 5 and 12.

@@aken215 his music sounds like a cat being molested on a piano

It's called a buildup/climax, if you don't like it, then Rachmaninoff is not for you, because a lot of his pieces are like that.

@@VadimGolovetskiy rach composing be like.....how many notes can i hit at the same time and what's the biggest chord i can pound.

@@ronartest7748 well try to compose better if you can smarty, let’s see if you will ever reach the levels of popularity like Rachmaninov did.