Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 (Mov 2 Pt 2) and (3 mov pt 1)

[MrHicks091]

3 people here apparently wouldn't no great music if it kicked them in the backside-maybe they're Rhianna fans.

[YTM021807]

@MrHicks091 What probably happened to "those 3" is that they were so overwhelmed by the intensity and awesome beauty of this section that in the rush to hit the "LIKE button" they clicked the other.

[romandhug]

HOW can you do such beautiful things? obviously there is a divine touch behind this!

[Rollinavonsh]

my God, I just love this movement!!

[Karen41872]

mdoub, the guy with the "big drums" called KETTLE DRUMS, is counting beats and concentrating... he's hardly bored.

[Floogy26]

This orchestra does credit to this lovely

2nd movement of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2. Performed with real feeling.

[aristopus]

I have glorious memories attached to Rachmaninovs Second—a little smoke under a palm tree with a lovely lady. We watch a yachts flickering party lights as it sails across Sarasota Bay and approached the Ringling Bridge.

The music evokes the dream.

[beethomozart]

nice symphony by Rachmaninoff, long and precious adagio that shows the author's most intimate feelings, Eric Carmen made another wonderful ballad version of the melody found in this extraordinary movement "I never fall in love again", I don´t see wrong at all a modern artist doing actualized versions of old pages, as long as they recognized in doing so

[brabon1]

never gonna fall in love again

rachmaninov ripped off eric carmen....lol

[mdoub]

the guy in the back with the big drums looks bored out of his wits

[YTM021807]

to me he looks determined and concentrated.

[301250]

Great prfmnc. of this beautiful and most perfect of Romantic symphonies by an orchestra with strings as silky as the Philadelphia Orchestra. Superb clarinet solo as good as in the Previn's, Janson's versions. Nice camera work but cld have added the pizzicato parts for greater effect. Thanks for the post YTM. sd goh (malaysia)

[charmingemily]

personally don't quite like the clarinetist's tone. it can be warmer. or maybe I'm just picky because I play the clarinet.

[cuerdaseca]

...no words...again and again...

[alexosipov2008]

And in my opinion, Rakhmaninov's music not about the lonely person. It about all and for all. I in delight from Rakhmaninov's this symphony, especially from 3 parts, am flight above all!!! 3 part-it precisely clearly everything, for everyone it sounds on the ... Everyone can present itself(himself) that to it is the closest, and is possible and it is the most necessary, the person, any picture of the childhood, any beautiful place... It is music for all!!!

[isftpoawawh]

The saddest point about Rachmaninov is that after he left Russia and came to the USA, he never wrote another piece of music, he performed many times but his heart was to broken to much to write music again.

[superclarenceboi]

Yes it is true. That is why his music is also so heart-breaking. What we hear in his music might be his sorrows and pain. I hear in his music a very lonely man that is longing to show others that he has alot of love to offer to people. That is why people say that one cannot play Rachmaninoff well unless one has been heart-broken before. It is only when we understand the pain he has gone through then can we relate it to our playing.

[mostcommonwombat]

@isftpoawawh Sadly, you ARE very much incorrect. Whilst he was not prolific composition-wise after leaving Russia. I will accept the argument that 4th Concerto had already been "sketched" before leaving Russia but Corelli Variations, Paganini Rhapsody, 3rd Symphony, Symphonic Dances & Four Russian Songs were all written during his "exile".

[isftpoawawh]

@mostcommonwombat You are quite correct, I don't remember where I got that information, but I should have checked before posting, thanks for catching it!

[superclarenceboi]

Rachmaninoff is one of the greatest composers of all time!! However it is weird...his 2nd symphony, 2nd piano concerto 2nd piano suites and 2nd piano sonata are my favourite....2nd..haha! Beautiful

[GreetingsAmerica]

and prelude op.3 number 2, hahaha!second movement of his second symphony, op 23 number two!!, etc.

The final theme seems one of the 3rd symphony first movement, and there is a common theme in his three, verry russian.

[superclarenceboi]

Precisely! My favourite movements of all his 2nd piece is the 2nd movement!!! Yes, and sometimes we hear same themes and ideas being used in different works but yet everything sounds so different and new. I think that what is so beautiful is hearing a theme in the first movement and hearing it again in the 2nd. It feels like a whole story.

[Aerovette1]

This was used as inspiration for the pop tune by Eric Carmen called "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again"

[xoL0VExo]

Thank you for confirming this. I suspected but didn't know for certain.

[veraitalia2007]

It´s wonderful !

[friendlybarman]

This beautiful music needs a great film, a film about love, Rachmaninoff would get an Oscar. Thanks

[YTM021807]

It reminds Richard Wagner's Tristan's "Love Death". Another magnificent and slow crescendo.

[ Perhaps also Ravel's Bolero? ]

[xerdiz]

@friendlybarman Someday I will. I promise.

[Streetcar1743]

I tell you one thing. You did a very SUPERIOR job in putting this piece together! I love Adgios. Yanni wrote one in C Minor.

[YTM021807]

Thanks! This symphony is full of enchanting and magical moments. A treasure!!

[Streetcar1743]

The Adagio is my favorite part of this piece.

[YTM021807]

Third movement (part 1) starts a 1:39