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SERGEY RACHMANINOV 1873--1943
Prélude, op.32 no.5 in G major Moderato 'a lost paradise'
A sticky and humid late summer afternoon, when hot air seems to tremble rising over ripening fields - only birds are able to pierce this thick air with their plaintive songs in anticipation of a thunderstorm -- finally this heavy air falls down to earth with drops of rain. This is not a dainty French or Italian landscape -- these are southern Russia wheat fields. This is Rachmaninoff's ancestral land - the land he never ceased to dream of from far away...
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