My Favorite Piano Concerto - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2
Mar 25, 2024 12:10:34 #
PaulBrit wrote:
Ouch! Your parents died at a young age!
Very young. I had a younger brother who very suddenly passed at 2. I was 7. It hit me hard!
Mark
Mar 25, 2024 12:12:46 #
Nancysc wrote:
The Rach II is played start to finish as the score for the 1940s film "Brief Encounter". Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, directed by David Lean. One of the 100 greatest films ever made. Oh, yes, screenplay by Noel Coward adapted from his stage play.
I vaguely seem to recall seeing it. Wonderful film, great music!
Mark
Mar 25, 2024 12:16:23 #
PaulBrit
Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon
markngolf wrote:
Very young. I had a younger brother who very suddenly passed at 2. I was 7. It hit me hard!
Mark
Mark
Just reminds me of that quote by Jann Arden, “To not think of dying, is to not think of living.” (And I have the quote in a notebook I carry on me.)
Mar 25, 2024 13:44:52 #
therwol
Loc: USA
fourlocks wrote:
Love his work but my all time favorite is Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony) sometimes describe as the most beautiful symphony ever written.
If anyone wants to know, my favorite symphony is Brahms' 4th.
Mar 25, 2024 14:05:19 #
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Mar 25, 2024 15:11:08 #
One of my fave's as well…but I would put Tchaikovsky #1 and Beethoven #5 ahead of the Rachy 2 and 3…and the Tchaikovsky wins over all the rest.
Mar 25, 2024 15:50:34 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
markngolf wrote:
Utube has vides of Rachmaninoff performing. His span was immense. He suffered greatly from depression, but that did not detract from his melodic compositions.
Mark
Mark
Youtube has a recent remastered recording of Yunchan Lim's Rach 3. If you don't know, he won last year's Van Cliburn. He was the youngest ever winner of what has been called the toughest rnial a pianist can face, and he did it in runaway fashion. As far as I know, only a couple of the posted recordings of him have decent sound quality, so t ry a differen u2b recording if you get one that sounds bad. Before him, my favorite Rach 3 was Van Cliburn's.
Mar 25, 2024 15:56:34 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
markngolf wrote:
Utube has vides of Rachmaninoff performing. His span was immense. He suffered greatly from depression, but that did not detract from his melodic compositions.
Mark
Mark
The depression did stop his composing for 4 years, until hypnosis conquered it.
Mar 25, 2024 16:20:49 #
Youtube has a video of Bernstein conducting the Mahler II in an English cathedral (not in London). It will make a believer out of the most devout atheist!
Mar 25, 2024 17:06:34 #
therwol
Loc: USA
neillaubenthal wrote:
One of my fave's as well…but I would put Tchaikovsky #1 and Beethoven #5 ahead of the Rachy 2 and 3…and the Tchaikovsky wins over all the rest.
It's a matter of taste, of course. Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff wrote emotional pieces. Beethoven is more intellectual. Tchaikovsky in particular wrote many memorable romantic melodies in his pieces. Rach 2 has at least two that I can think of that have been borrowed over and over. Rach 3 is more harsh than 2, and I have to be in a mood for it.
Mar 25, 2024 17:11:43 #
therwol
Loc: USA
Nancysc wrote:
Youtube has a video of Bernstein conducting the Mahler II in an English cathedral (not in London). It will make a believer out of the most devout atheist!
I'm not sure about that, but it's a magnificent piece of music.
You surely know that he was Jewish, married a Christian, converted to Catholicism, but still encountered anti-semitic issues that increased toward the end of his life. The Vienna Philharmonic didn't play his music after WWII until the 1960s.
Mar 25, 2024 21:32:15 #
It was L. Bernstein who brought Mahler into the popular realm (popular among classical music listeners. This was in the 1960s. And of course this was 20 years after WWII, so enough time to bring German music in general into the airwaves and concert halls.
Mar 25, 2024 22:39:35 #
markngolf wrote:
Thank you! In all honesty, not ALL genres
Mark
Mark
Dear Mark,
Me neither,I know what you mean!
Mar 25, 2024 23:03:14 #
therwol
Loc: USA
Nancysc wrote:
It was L. Bernstein who brought Mahler into the popular realm (popular among classical music listeners. This was in the 1960s. And of course this was 20 years after WWII, so enough time to bring German music in general into the airwaves and concert halls.
Bernstein is buried with the score to Mahler's 5th, said to be his favorite. I was once listening to the last movement of the 5th at a very high volume in my car and didn't even notice the police siren on my tail as the officer tried to get around me. Big music.
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