A pleasant surprise! Since I moved to the Netherlands, I've had every reason to get a much lower opinion of their music life than from the golden times of the Concertgebouw Orkest but this is a very pleasing rendition of an old Rachmaninoff favourite of mine. I haven't ever imagined a Dutch orchestra outside of Amsterdam playing this great piece. Thank you for the upload!
Bravo to the audience as well as the performers, the former for allowing the tam-tam to ring out at the very end and not interrupting it with applause or cheers.
Never heard of these symphonic dances, depending perhaps on the fact that Rachmaninoff for most of us is piano music, with or without orchestra. Anyway, interesting to get aquainted to an another Rachmaninoff... Thanks!
Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances is in the standard repertoire of orchestras. I especially love listening to it with video of the orchestra playing, so that I can understand the concept better. It's been among my very favorite pieces since I discovered it 30 years ago. I never get tired of hearing it.
@@joannevincent2035 I love that it allows every instrument/section in the orchestra a chance to shine at some point and that main theme that drives the work along is splendid.
Rachmaninoff wrote a version for 2 pianos at the same time he composed the orchestral score, and it's well worth a listen. Also a lot of fun to play. But if the piano music is mostly all you know, you have some great listening ahead of you as I hope you'll explore his 3 symphonies, The Rock, The Isle of the Dead, The Bells, his choral masterpiece Vespers, and a charming Scherzo that is the earliest surviving piece he wrote for orchestra when he was a student.
36:10 - 36:14 That's what this entire masterpiece is about, isn't it? Look at the conductor, how he feels the end, the transition, this stroke of the tamtam that remains as the last sound, flooding the concert hall. I never understood why some conductors ignore the "Laissez vibrer" and abruptly kill this intense moment. Great performance!
"laissez vibrer" was written only at some beats of the tam tam previous the very last beat in the last measure (Boosey score). The sound has to stop immediately.
@@rudigerherpich3496 Even though you are right about the laisser vibrer, no, the tamtam is the only instrument in the score with the last note as a dotted quarter note. All the other instruments have a normal eight note, meaning the tamtam is supposed to sound thrice as long as the other instruments. In my opinion it would defenitely ruin the atmosphere to damp it at the end of the bar, but that is up to the conductor. However I don’t think it’s right to ignore the score in the very last note and just pretend you see it as a half note.
the sax solo has ruined several performances of this, my favorite orchestral work. her rendition is wonderful. this moves up to # 1 for me. thanks for the upload
