Rachmaninoff - Elegie

[DJMoonX3]

Stunning.

[pipeman3264]

One of my fellow piano students did that. Nice!

[cashkenazipiano]

amazing how rich the bass is in this ancient recording. oh yeah, and rach playing rach makes the win exponential

[manymanero]

@cashkenazipiano

the recording is new, though Rachmaninoff himself plays...

[aardvaark069]

@cashkenazipiano This is a modern tranfer from a reproducing piano roll (perforated paper) That he cut for the Ampico system almost 90 years ago.

[ohboyyyy1234]

i played piano for about ten years. i quit in may of this year (at the end of my soph year in high school). this song was my showcase song for the last competition i participated in.

anyway, listening to rachmaninoff play his own song in the true interpretation is really amazing. the word elegy has literal connotations about death, and i really feel the desperation in this piece. very moving and i want to start practicing it again. thanks for the upload!

[manymanero]

@ohboyyyy1234

You are welcome!



[ohboyyyy1234]

i played piano for about ten years. i quit in may of this year (at the end of my soph year in high school). this song was my showcase song for the last competition i participated in.

anyway, listening to rachmaninoff play his own song in the true interpretation is really amazing. the word elegy has literal connotations about death, and i really feel the desperation in this piece. very moving and i want to start practicing it again.

[alexmad2007]

Amazing performance; really great and full of sense. It reminds me a Chopin sonate sometimes.

[24link135]

The four people who disliked it are deaf or dead inside

[shin3ist]

Ballet version by Vladimir Vasiliev(1994 varna ballet competition gala concert is also

wonderful! beautiful music and Maximova!

[jtismyname]

wtf i am learning this..It is impossible! I suck at playing piano :/

[Besdonaz]

@RemovdSande11

This record is reproduced with this roll

/watch?v=nrOp4TeG100

at 3:22 here and at 3:25 in the video under the link you can here the same mistake of recording(or maybe of Racmaninoff himself, who knows)

That's the reason of the good quality, but this method have got some minuses. For example here i actually dont like more modern tone of the grandpiano, on which the roll is reproduced

You can read about it in wiki (piano roll)

[manymanero]

@Besdonaz

with that roll but not the same piano, that is obviously a machine playing. ... raw version from the roll. This version should have been improved after recording with a software or something like that. Very successfully in my opinion, for sure he sounded very similar

[cziffra1980]

@Besdonaz That's no mistake. The G natural comes from some idiot editor who presumed Rachmaninoff must have forgotten to write a natural symbol. He meant the clash from the G flat that he wrote, as this shows.

[lilytoka]

I am here daily! What a beautiful music. Can it get better than this?!

[manymanero]

@kerrrs

the score is what you mean, but when he plays it

he doesn't play like a machine or a metronome, he does an interpretation too

[RemovdSande11]

wow how did you get this audio quality ? awesome! _O_

[antyo]

best piano piece i've ever heard

[lana312]

@antyo Rachmaninov was one of the best pianoplayers not mention he is genious ccomposer.

[tlz16]

Божественная музыка!

""Рано или поздно, под старость или в расцвете лет, Несбывшееся зовет

нас, и мы оглядываемся, стараясь понять, откуда прилетел зов. Тогда,

очнувшись среди своего мира, тягостно спохватясь и дорожа каждым днем,

всматриваемся мы в жизнь, всем существом стараясь разглядеть, не начинает ли

сбываться Несбывшееся? Не ясен ли его образ? Не нужно ли теперь только

протянуть руку, чтобы схватить и удержать его слабо мелькающие черты?"

А. Грин

[lilytoka]

BEAUTIFUL!!! I am listening for hours too!I can only dream that one day I will play

Elegie!!!

[DarknessL12]

Oh my god ,so perfect ..I love this so much

[manymanero]

this interpretation comes from another world!

a perfect one

[rarecellos]

@manymanero because he wrote it!

[24link135]

@manymanero I agree, Rachmaninoff is probably the greatest pianist ever; his playing has an unearthly and transcendental character that anihilates everything else. Personally, he is also among the greatest, yet unrated composers (celebrated in the UK and the US, but shunned among German critics, who sadly write music history). It is also strains credulity that he was only 19 years old when he wrote this - how can a young/boy man be emotionally capable to write this haunting piece? Awesome!

[manymanero]

@24link135

After playing some bars, he takes you in another world

Those were the critics of the reaction against Romanticism. I can understand them, Obviously they were wrong lol. Rachmaninov stood the test of time, critics never make it, they write just for money

[wilbur1960]

What an awesome emotional crescendo that peaks at 2:31 !!!!!

Much may be learned from this and the Ampico Piano recording .. both have slightly different approaches to the climax of the piece. The end of both versions are of similar stretto timing. Someday I'll get close to capturing the rapture that SVR so effortlessly seemed to evoke here.

[MrMcmikemike]

does anyone play this sort of music but extremely dark and haunting? i want to hear this classical music played like demons are coming out of the floor and pulling the listener into a hell.

[manymanero]

@MrMcmikemike

you seem to be a little disturbed today...

[Martel211996]

@MrMcmikemike try scriabin op 8 no 12, his 10th piano sonata

[jtismyname]

@MrMcmikemike gloomy sunday? lol

black metal!!

[dahood22]

this piece is epic just like the b minor prelude and his 3rd piano concerto all masterpieces

[SenoraFabregas]

i'm so excited to learn this piece. i love learning emotional pieces because then I can interpret it as well. i love playing music with emotion. it might sound boring but the experience of playing such a beautiful piece is just amazing.

[SenoraFabregas]

he's a fucking Legend. yes, capitalized.

there was so much emotion in him that he let out while playing his surreal music. this piece sounds like it came from God himself.

AMAZING <3

[butterbeatsmargarin]

what r u talking about... "he removes the sentiment everyone puts in ?"

rachmaninov himself said he hoped to find someone who could play his pieces

without portraying so much of this apparent emotion he himself wrote into his music.

there's so much longing, yearning in this piece.. rachmaninov was suffering from depression when he had to leave his country so obviously he couldnt have REMOVED emotion from his pieces since this reflected his inner ailment.

[W33kspot]

I want this played at my funeral

[gerardbedecarter]

A beautiful historical recording!

[ignaciowang]

after practicing a piece like this for quiet some time you feel like you are pretty good at it.... that is until you hear this...and are completely humbled

[LucianaMSArraes]

Essa peça nos transporta a uma dimensão só comparável ao que deve ser o universo em sua constante dinâmica. É toda poesia; ainda mais executada pelo próprio Rachmaninoff. Amazing! Marvelous!! Wonderful!!!

[ImperatorVeritas]

Rachmaninoff, the greatest genius of the Romantic era.

[Aristarxos85]

these 4 people who dislike this piece, maybe they dont know what they heard. Better for them to change music-video.

And I agree with vdj0077, he was the gratest pianist ever.

Thank you Sergei for this Testament of music...

[manymanero]

@Aristarxos85

some people have even said that they play it better... no joke

[Aristarxos85]

@manymanero

we Greeks say (in free translation): "as the fox cannot reach, hooks them"

I had read something like this before at the Internet.

I wish I could play even 1% of his playing, my friend.

[SenoraFabregas]

@manymanero LOL ARE YOU SERIOUS!! HHAHAHAHAHA pathetic!!!

[alejandrothefader]

@Aristarxos85 rr file an dn tous aresei kseroun ti na paroun :P

auto einai apla to pws o suntheths to hthele kai epishs einai h kaluterh ermhneia pou exei brethei

akou ekei, kalutera apo ton rachmaninoff

polla theloun!

epishs an kai lugo akuro xairomai pou uparxoun k ellhnes pou den akoune MONO mpouzoukia kai ftiaxnontai (dn exw tipota me ta mpouzoukia alla telospanton)

finally this is greek and i don´t want any hating comments about why im posting this in my native language! thanks

[TheLindamons]

I'm learning this peace right now and I'm confused because I don't like so many rubato playing.

[manymanero]

@TheLindamons

I can only say: "this was the way "they" liked it

[manymanero]

@TheLindamons he adds those things that can't be written in a five-line score,

[manymanero]

@TheLindamons

he adds those things that can't be written in a five-line score,

[lana312]

Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the greatest composers. But not many people now that he was one of the greatest pianists.

[vdj0077]

@lana312 he wast one of the greatest he was the greatest

[triestoohard1]

Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the greatest composers. But not many people now that he was one of the greatest pianists.

[OhMyAlyona]

when i first listened to this, i found the last two notes completely random and strange. But now that I've listened to this piece-oh a couple hundred times...-, I think they aren't random but fit perfectly.

[milosc9]

@OhMyAlyona yeah, instead of sounding like a lead-on to another movement, it's a tierce de Picardie stripped down to just 1 note

[MorbidAngel4444]

its such a beautiful piece. its a shame that its not renowned like any other piece by Chopin.

However, that's what makes it beautiful.

[lana312]

@MorbidAngel4444 the record was made in 1920 (if i am not misstaken)

[ryw]

Hahah I agree.

[asv8104]

A little neurotic but still very impressive

[awei7]

what an amazing ending.......

[kilace]

I remember trying this piece several years ago but I didn't want to learn it all since its just too sad.

[shirazkaleel]

billny - Rach is Tatar (Turkic), not Slavic!

[johnnyblue34]

Beautiful, deeply moving, only as he could play it....The one composition that remains with you for all time. Thank you for posting

[Allyheartzz]

I'm trying to learn this ^^

So far I've only got the first page down xD

[belicious33]

my fav of Rachmaninov!!!

[manymanero]

this could have been a wonderful slow movement for a Piano Concerto!

[belicious33]

sorry but didnt get it,what did u mean I mean my english is not that bad,but still didnt get it can u open that :-)

xxx

[manymanero]

well... i just agree with you

[JuyoNi]

what a beautiful piece... rachmaninov is sooo amazing. sadly all my small hands can grasp is his prelude in g minor and his piano concert in c sharp minor:( TWO PIECES ISNT ENOUGH!!!

[alejandrothefader]

@JuyoNi big hands are not the key

practice to slightly leap in motion without jerking and you'll have the same effect as if you had bigger hands but with twice the effort of a big handed pianist though... good luck and courage

[lalagirl259]

does anyone know exactly who he wrote this for? is there a biography of the piece anywhere?

[belicious33]

I knew it but I do not remember I have to check I searched it about 12 years ago give me time I will find out

[johnnyblue34]

@lalagirl

He wrote this when he was 20 years old as his gift to a freind who had died. This is Rachmaninoff's gift to him, his eulogy..

[SenoraFabregas]

@johnnyblue34 20 years old...fuck man he's amazing...

[ItchyNo86]

Yes,this is an incredibly fantastic piece.I know what I´m talking about.Every time I spend the 4 minutes at piano playing this sheets I have frisson,always remember hours&hours,days&days,almost 6 months to learn,my hands extended in one inch.I´ve experienced pain,spite,tears but in the end the measureless satisfaction.This´s the biggest challenge I´ve ever tried.Rachmaninov,you are my favorite piano composer,you have merit in the best years of my life.Thank you,rest in peace

[manymanero]

His hands were famously large — he could, with his left hand, play the chord C-E flat-G-C-G.

[Allyheartzz]

@manymanero nooo way, that's way too big.

[manymanero]

check out Wikipedia dear, not the only opinion out there, but Every book tells the same story about his little hand...

[SilverInsanity]

Rachmaninoff had large hands because of, supposedly, Marfan syndrome, which is a genetic disorder. Patients generally have very long fingers and large hands, and are very tall.

[doctordrums8]

@Allyheartzz: That's what she said.

[billny36]

This is Rach's eulogy (French - elegie; Russian - elegia) for a friend who had passed away. The track is on a CD "Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff".

Rach is eternal, he is the greatest pianist ever, his compositions are immortal expressions of impossibly high human creation and expression, and this is the one piece that truly captures sadness, despair and agony in the human heart.

[jurasperles]

Congratulations, that is really truly impressive. It's beautiful

[24link135]

Absolutely perfect in every account. Truly the greatest pianist of the 20th century - better even then Horowitz, Hoffmann and Rubinstein. Though I belive its matter of taste. As an virtouso however, I think he is, along with Lizst, the greatest pianist that ever lived. After that come, Busoni, Horowitz, the Rubinsteins and so on..

This is immortal

[manymanero]

When Rachmaninoff plays...he 'composes' it again

[wallhalla64]

I Love Him. He is the gratest ever.

[MrCrowbar97]

anyone know where i can find the sheet music? i dont think imslp has it

[manymanero]

still under copyright, but it should be in every public music library.

[belshazul]

its on imslp, this piece is part of the Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3

[Rachoszsky]

it definitely is at IMSLP!

Rachmaninoff -> Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op.3 -> 1.) Elegie

[manymanero]

wow

[alexethanhoward]

Awesome

[fratboyfrat]

One could only wish to play like him..

[ElliLoveMusic]

Ooo i'm learning to play this piece atm =) Its stunning! Such a fantastic ending!

[ElliLoveMusic]

ooo i'm learning to play this piece atm =) Its stunning! The ending is just brilliant =D

[LJWeebsley]

Trying to follow this on horn sheet music, IMPOSSIBLE to count the rests, this song has no beat whatsoever, very hard to learn on a horn, definitely made especially for piano.

[mentalholocaust]

Amazing.

[jurasperles]

Genius... no one plays like him.. I`m listening this and dreaming ... Maybe I could play like Rachmaninof.... <3 Rachmaninoff!! Best Pianist for ever!!!

[Pi9988]

OMG I'm playing this and it's wonderful.

[ploschad]

I know the feeling!! When I'm doing mental play on this piece, especially near the climax, my heart rate spikes and I start pacing the room...

[chocolateymilkshake]

me too i find this wonderful too : )

[deafcon4]

Absolutely gorgeous.

[Stultster13]

I love this song... so beautiful, but yet dark. At times calm and happy then at others suspenseful. Rachmaninov is one great composer. I'm currently learning this song and should have a video out in not to long.

[manymanero]

Classical musicians call this "post romantic" style

[preciousbash]

LOVE LOVE LOVE Rachmaninov !!! Favorite composer of all time!!!

[billny36]

This is the eulogy (elegia) that he composed for a friend who had passed away. It is incredibly emotional and evokes the anguish in his heart and mine. His music springs from within, from the Slavic soul, no other composition comes close to Elegia, maybe the Rach 2 and Pathetique.

[Ureallydontknow]

sitting here listening to it for hours on repeat starring at the score. the more I listen the more I realize how amazing this is. the off beat right hand finds conformity but then becomes complete free in its own time. the ending is insane. like he was wiping all his lifes work off the table and onto the floor with his arm in one big swoop like nothing else matters. especially the last two notes. so enigmatic. I guess he wanted a feeling of loneliness and confusion that only a single note can do

[advisorC101]

Incredible to hear the master of his own works!

[geheimpje]

waw! Im playing some rachmaninoff pieces but i just discovered this one. Amazing...

[manymanero]

try the third piano Concerto

[Ukraine1980]

Very beautiful and rich in emotions. I used to play this, but my interpretation was not the same as Rachmaninoff's. I wish I could have heard this recording earlier to try to imitate the composer's real intentitions. However, the song is amazing is one of my all time favorite.

Thank You for posting this great piece online! I have been listening to this recording for several hours now as I'm typing up my paper.

[manymanero]

You are welcome!

[seriousbag007]

this is so beautiful. its so dark, and...i don't know...just beautiful.

[XPJamieXD]

And I love that Rachmaninoff's performance always seems very impatient at times with the speed and the voicing of the melody. Also I love the triplets at 1:10 which are very fast compared to other pianists who often change the rhythm for some reason.

[hellomate639]

His style is so unconventional. But that's why he was such a great pianist and composer. That's evidence that you should express yourself how you intuitively want to...

[sodoomia]

love it

[guayabero2001]

this is the summit of art

[pickmandra]

That's a pretty lyric masterpiece. I wish I can play in this way in the future.

[NutriLabsTV]

some masterpieces were meant to go on for ever...this piece would be one of them...

[220392123]

love this. sums Rach up for me; dark and dramatic but beautiful.

[hellomate639]

The darkness is my favorite aspect...

[ehconnoreh]

this is gorgeous.

[nolanrobe]

Is this from a piano roll or is it not actually him playing?

[manymanero]

a recording is not himself either, lol

[fratboyfrat]

Wish I had hands like his. :P

[JupiterIV]

How easy do you think it'd be to play Liszt's "La Campanella" when you can easily top off a 15 on the keyboard?

[Besdonaz]

This all is not about hands

[sunnylilbro]

this is the first time im encountering rachmaninoff and im listening to this with the music in front of me because im going to learn it.. its amazing i dont understand what sort of superhuman hands u need to be able to play this.

[pandaz1993himick]

It's absolutely amazing...i think he's the master of romance in conjunction with agony...him and Chopin!!!

[aaa1232123]

Why does everyone else drag this out to 6 or more minutes? Ugh.

[manymanero]

they don't only play, they are actually acting for the theater too, , making faces at the camera...

[Nyantchokunda]

he he he

[Rachturne]

God so many reasons hes my god. Just listen to the steady firmness of his enormous left hand, yet the perfect stabbing right.

[Rachturne]

He was not much for Rubato with his own works. Play like this damnit!

[maurofoil]

c'è tutta la magia di rach.

[Kalen1457]

I'm intrigued.

I'll think I'll learn it.

[ostrorawr]

Go for it! It's not too hard by Rachmaninoffian standards..

[TheMadman2006]

Deeply romantic but I love how he removes the sentiment that eveyrone puts in. His steady tempo.

[andriskaya]

rachmaninoff's music is the deepest ever written

[Sakhnik]

I love it, no more words!

[maurofoil]

è una grandissima emozione ma anche un'elevatissima lezione interpretativa

[maurofoil]

è una grandissima emozione ascoltare l'Autore, ma anche una elevatissima lezione interpretativa

[kajohada]

rachmaninoff was a great interpreter of his own works.his musical expression is as deep as the russian school and as extended as the russian landscape and he play so romantic in the full sense of the word and full of inspiration...beautiful.

[kajohada]

rachmaninoff was a great interpreter of his own works,he plays so romantic with the deepest inspiration...beautiful!

[kajohada]

he was such a great interpreter of his own works.rachmaninoffs musical expression is as great as the russian landscape and as deep as the russian soul and he plays so romantic with the deepest inspiration in the full sense of the word...beautiful.

[kajohada]

rachmaninoff was a great interpreter of his own works.the range of his musical expression seems as deep as the russian soul and as wide as the russian landscape.he plays so romantic,full of the greatest inspiration in the full sense of the word...beautiful.

[kajohada]

rachmaninoff was a great interpreter of his own works,full of the deepest inspiration and so romantic in the full sense of the word.his musical expression is very amazing...beautiful :))

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[kajohada]

rachmaninoff was a great interpreter of his own works.the musical expression seems as great as the russian soul and as wide as the russian landscape.he plays so romantic with the deepest inspiration in the full sense of the word...beautiful.

[kajohada]

rachmaninoff was a great interpreter of his own works.the musical expression is as great as the russian soul and the russian landscape with all the immense wideness.full of the deepest inspiration and so romatic in the full sense of the word,beautiful....

[maurofoil]

davvero emozionante; mi ha sorpreso l'interpretazione dolce ma al tempo stesso vibrante e a tratti energica; anh'io eseguo questo brano, ed ascoltaro dall'Autore comunica un vissuto inesprimibilmente bello!

[hellomate639]

Wow, now I can see that this is a beautiful piece when played right. The guy in the recording I have doesn't get it I don't think. Now I want to learn it. Rach adds in that depth... Gorgeous...

Actually makes me tear up a little.

[atlikatli]

he was only 19 years old when he wrote this

[Goldenkitten4]

Holy crap, I hope I will have such depth and a solid, distinguished voice at that age.

[kasyapa]

one of the best of all piano roll realizations. thank you!

[dettovszky]

so sad so beautiful

[dettovszky]

so sad so beautiful

[cipi91]

spettacolare interpretazione mi mancano le parole..

[manymanero]

grazie!

[goldberg72]

convengo con te,oi si sente anche molto bene ,nn trovi?

[c0h0o0p0i0n]

i dont know how did this genius musician compose like this genius piece !!

[milk1412]

only the composer can play his piece in right feel

[SugarxPopxCandy]

Beautiful! Thank you so much for posting this! He inspires me so much! Thanks!

[soltisviolin]

I agree!!

[soltisviolin]

Thank you for posting this.

[goldberg72]

stupenda this interpretation amagazin

[soltisviolin]

it's not just an interpretation, it's played by the composer himself!!

[Sutterlina]

Beautiful! I love these historical recordings. Thank you for posting this!