I love it and would be very upset if it were removed. We all make mistakes in life and we aren't band for it. Let this remain is my vote....! Beautiful.....
To all the "computer chair critics" : I suppose you guys could this better? If so, send me the link of your personal performance - - - If not, don't ridicule and kindly FUCK OFF!!!
ok, Kaggy -- he slurred his runs (especially the final one), hit many wrong notes in a few other places (or just missed them altogether), plus he double-keyed the single base note at that dramatic point where he nearly flies off the bench...at exactly 4:06. Check out Sultanov's nearly flawless rendition. Also, Rach himself plays it on utube. Having said that, I reiterate it was a wonderful performance to watch. It is not likely that an ear unfamiliar with this movement would catch errors.
@sargeanton2 I'm very intrigued, there really are hardly any wrong notes in this...and he certainly doesn't miss anything altogether....the slur in the final interlocking chords was intended by Rachmaninoff, I would say...no point painstainkingly playing every note crystal clear, that would kill the exuberance...just like you I think this is an outstanding performance, but I really can't hear a high amount of wrong notes...and I've heard many renditions of this...correct me if I'm worng!
I enjoyed this because this guy really let it all hang out! Despite a few screwups (that are obvious to anyone who knows this concerto) he really showed passion and heart ! In this case. it's more fun to watch than a flawless performance by someone who seems detached. THIS GUY WAS INTO IT ! He gets my drama king rating of A plus...even though his actual accurate striking of the notes only gets a C plus. And I have to add that I've never enjoyed WATCHING a pianist more than I did him
SIMPLESMENTE DISPENSA QUALQUER COMENTÁRIO, QUALQUER PREOCUPAÇÃO EM ANAALISÁ-LO, SENDO VIDA EM SI MESMA, EM TODA SUA MAGIA E BELEZA, DOR E PAIXÃO, AMOR LÍQUIDO! NÃO PRECISA DE COMENTÁRIOS! NOÊMIA MAESTRINI, SET. 2011
Rachmaninoff é simplesmente um dos compositores Românticos mais expressivos e fantásticos. Ao apreciar suas criações sinto um extâse profundo quase comparado a um orgasmo! Belíssima interpretação!!!!!
Georgi Cherkin did an amazing job with this. Some parts are just astounding.. I'm a 23 y.o. african-american classical pianist (the next Andre Watts? haha who i've seen perform live before) and i've practiced this work using these recordings/the orchestra backing; the conductor has a unique interpretation. I only have 8 more pages left and then Rach 2 will be completely memorized in entirety!! My next step will then be to compose a piano concerto which rivals this one. Wish me luck, and sanity.
I was 16 when I first heard this concerto. I still love it today at 66. It is one of those pieces of music that makes you realise that life without music would be intolerable, that death is suspended whenever it is played. How can such beauty be so fleeting? Just like life itself.
As long as someone plays it, and someone hears it, adores it, then our love, lives forever.
@MrAkihiros Thanks, I am flattered by your words. I am gay, so yes, I write poetry. My poetry and short stories are at CodeysWorld, please Google for it.
The playing is very good, exciting, splendid and everything, but what makes it even better is athleticism, ballerina hand waving, and utterly magnificent powerful gestures (he even beats Lang Lang who played a terrible parody of Horowitz this past July 4th 2010) that makes his unknown name knowable.
The range of emotions I feel when I listen to this movement, goosebumps, sadness, happiness, joy......I smile, I cry, I just get completely carried on it, Beautiful !!! The build up to the end is truely awsome, The power from 4.00 mins to the end....WOW, This is by far my favorite piece, it just completely and utterly sends me!!!! What a genius! Thankyou so much for allowing me the honour of listening to it. x
I truly enjoyed this interpretation of the piece. I can close my eyes and get lost in it while listening to the video...I can just imagine surrendering to it in the audience.
This video (of excellent quality) brings tears to the eyes of a 70 year old former music teacher. This concerto is one of my all time favorites and this is my favorite movement. Oh to be so young and talented as this pianist (only 29 when this was recorded)!
@Kaggypants lol, no... but I wonder how many brilliant minds are thrown away nowadays due to our modern "instant pleasures" (maybe Aldous Huxley was right) =]
I'm not ripping on Rachmaninoff, I just don't like this specific piece. It's pointless and boring. I like some of his solo piano works though--I think those are amazing. I think I a lot of people here believe that they are supposed to like this piece in order to be acknowledged as a "true" musician. It's like showing a guy with a Ph.D in art a picture and him saying how deep and meaningful it is only to learn that the picture was drawn by a monkey. It's okay to have a real opinion people.
I like Rachmaninoff. This piece just is just disappointing to me. I guess your critisism is just the price one with a more refined taste for music has to pay. If you enjoy mediocracy, you are certainly entitled to it.
How so? I don't remember a specific mention of Rach in Ayn's work. Although the composer in "Atlas Shrugged" seems like Rach. I hope you will explain, as I am a big big fan of both Ayn and Rach.
I cried, that's the best Rachmaninov I've heard, fan-freakintastic, I do wish the brass were a little "larger" during the final push, and the french horns triple fortissimo, (i wonder what's written) but all-in-all great balance and an incredible performance
the 2 first min are absolutely wonderful, amazing; I really like the rythm; dan gibson does a really good job with a "remix" on angelsong by the sea (album solitude) of this concerto n°2.
any RPT like me can tell that there are a few notes that are out of tune, the person who tuned this piano was abviouly not taught how to set and strenghen every key, something that's a must when you have someone playing this type of song, so fire the tuner and get someone else!
I have an answer for you, or at least a part of answer...
There is an anime, called "Nodame Cantabile" which uses a lot of classical songs, and in the second season, the opening song is a remix on this song by the Gospellers, the song is sort of cool, but the original is just GREAT and made me cry... and this part of the video has most of the sounds used in the remix, called "SKY HIGH"...
Well if you wanna hear, is SKY HIGH by THE GOSPELLERS
I don`t find much difference in difficulty between the second and third paino concertos. Certainly, both of them are much more difficult than that by Grieg. However, this last one has a cadenza which really is a tour de force for any pianist
I was reading the score along with the music... This will take a long time to learn, I can't even begin to imagine what it took Cherkin to master it, let alone the great Rach to compose it
Sorry to be the Simon Cowell of the group Kopynd, but I think Rach would be spinning in his grave. Certainly Cherkin can play better than probably any of us, but his performance was strange at times...way too slow in parts, then too fast, with some sloppiness in between. Still, a great, stirring masterpiece.
Well, maybe standing up at the last chord is a just a little too showy, but this guy's good. And of course I'm always glad to hear Rach 2, even though it's been overdone.
I absolutely loved playing this along side Carmina Burana. It was so moving! My teacher Mark Gasser performed it. I get a real kick from performing and listening to love music :)
I thought this was the tops till I heard the third concerto and found it to be as great as this one. I am at a loss for words to express the greatness of this concerto. BRAVO-BRAVO-BRAVO!!!
Rach #3 is very difficult especially for women. Rach had large and strong hands and he composed his concerto's as such. Many a stage manager has groaned when he was in town cause his hands were so strong that he's been known the break strings on the piano he was performing on.
Rachmaninov was thought to have suffered from Marfan Syndrome (though this has not been confirmed), a genetic disorder characterized by long limbs, tall stature and such. sd goh (malaysia)
The reason he said it was easier was because it expanded a lot more in terms of having 10th and 11th chords. His hand was naturally large, and the 2nd piano concert cramped it all together :P
I've been told that the 2nd isnt really THAT hard (at least in virtuosism)..I've was told it was like at the same level of the Grieg Concerto and slightly below a Chopin concerto, of course the technical difficulties must be different..but would you say this also? I really would love to play it, I'd like to know if the Grieg Concerto or a Mnedelssohn concerto would be a good preparatory concerto for this one...Thanks
It does require high levels of technique, because not everyone can play his complex chords, as their hands are way too small. Grieg and Mendelssohn all have their own taste :) Grieg is viking-like in strength, but Mendelssohn is more delicate at times.
lol..I know people with small hand that can barely reach a 9nth (and this concert requires more) that played this concerto.I suppose a lot of people leave out one note in such situations.
WOW!!!!!!...Ta tova e sigyrno nai-dobroto izpulnenie na Rachmaninoff-2nd Piano Concerto, koeto sum 4uvala nqkoga! Hilqdi puti BRAVO! Bravo Jore! :);):)))
my favorite version on youtube, mostly because I can actually hear the piano and the pianist is simply outstanding.
lurgidbee 3 days ago
it's like rachmaninoff didn't write this like a virtuoso piece but a piece that is very emotional
Soloiszt 1 month ago
3:50 - 3:58 was amazing
rixille 2 months ago
This 3rd movement is an " obra prima" of Serguei Rachmaninoff very well played by the soloist and the orchestra.
Argemiro Pertence - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
apertence 2 months ago
An " obra prima" of Serguei Rachmaninoff very well played by the soloist and the orchestra.
Argemiro Pertence - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
apertence 2 months ago
I love it and would be very upset if it were removed. We all make mistakes in life and we aren't band for it. Let this remain is my vote....! Beautiful.....
bjulialacer3 3 months ago
A superb version.
darioteich 3 months ago
To all the "computer chair critics" : I suppose you guys could this better? If so, send me the link of your personal performance - - - If not, don't ridicule and kindly FUCK OFF!!!
SordidGuy 4 months ago
ok, Kaggy -- he slurred his runs (especially the final one), hit many wrong notes in a few other places (or just missed them altogether), plus he double-keyed the single base note at that dramatic point where he nearly flies off the bench...at exactly 4:06. Check out Sultanov's nearly flawless rendition. Also, Rach himself plays it on utube. Having said that, I reiterate it was a wonderful performance to watch. It is not likely that an ear unfamiliar with this movement would catch errors.
sargeanton2 4 months ago
@sargeanton2 Thanks! I don't know the movement well enough to hear the mistakes but I am still interested in where they are!
Kaggypants 3 months ago
@sargeanton2 I'm very intrigued, there really are hardly any wrong notes in this...and he certainly doesn't miss anything altogether....the slur in the final interlocking chords was intended by Rachmaninoff, I would say...no point painstainkingly playing every note crystal clear, that would kill the exuberance...just like you I think this is an outstanding performance, but I really can't hear a high amount of wrong notes...and I've heard many renditions of this...correct me if I'm worng!
dernettep 5 days ago
I enjoyed this because this guy really let it all hang out! Despite a few screwups (that are obvious to anyone who knows this concerto) he really showed passion and heart ! In this case. it's more fun to watch than a flawless performance by someone who seems detached. THIS GUY WAS INTO IT ! He gets my drama king rating of A plus...even though his actual accurate striking of the notes only gets a C plus. And I have to add that I've never enjoyed WATCHING a pianist more than I did him
sargeanton2 4 months ago
@sargeanton2 Please point out his mistakes to me. :)
Kaggypants 4 months ago
SIMPLESMENTE DISPENSA QUALQUER COMENTÁRIO, QUALQUER PREOCUPAÇÃO EM ANAALISÁ-LO, SENDO VIDA EM SI MESMA, EM TODA SUA MAGIA E BELEZA, DOR E PAIXÃO, AMOR LÍQUIDO! NÃO PRECISA DE COMENTÁRIOS! NOÊMIA MAESTRINI, SET. 2011
NoemiaMaestrini 4 months ago
Maravilhoso ! beautiful !
vovoneni 4 months ago
This spectacular performance deserves more BRAVOS
roooosah 5 months ago
This is...so incredibly beautiful. I tear up every time I hear the second movement and this movement at 4:20.
Kaggypants 5 months ago
there is so much good music out there and this is some of it. Unfortuantly one can only know so much in life.
waters965 6 months ago
I almost cum listening to this!!!
cesarrasec33 7 months ago
Amazing piece of music. And amazing performance. Bravo Georgi.
iwnathan 7 months ago
more speed please
jiririji 7 months ago
@jiririji listen more please
Cocoheadedcannibal 6 months ago
@Cocoheadedcannibal your study
jiririji 6 months ago
Excelente aunque como dijo Maumalina parece que estén tocando en un barco jejeje.
Nepociano 7 months ago
It took me years to like Rach. It used to bore me a lot, I didnt understood what he was saying. Only after I liked Scriabin I could enjoy rach...
Hero0fSilence 8 months ago
Como música e interpretação, excelente. Como vídeo carece de técnica pela postura estática da câmera!!!
maumalina 8 months ago
still sends shivers down my spine....very beautiful music
SpannerA1 8 months ago
Rachmaninoff é simplesmente um dos compositores Românticos mais expressivos e fantásticos. Ao apreciar suas criações sinto um extâse profundo quase comparado a um orgasmo! Belíssima interpretação!!!!!
ArthurE7 9 months ago
how I wish I could play this concerto,,, this is my dream in my whole life !!!thanks for posting!!!
ledesmaallen38 9 months ago
Oh... now I remember for what I live for.... .
MrRaphaelBM 9 months ago 4
His pedaling is crazy during the last few seconds lol
MrYou2ber 10 months ago
Georgi Cherkin did an amazing job with this. Some parts are just astounding.. I'm a 23 y.o. african-american classical pianist (the next Andre Watts? haha who i've seen perform live before) and i've practiced this work using these recordings/the orchestra backing; the conductor has a unique interpretation. I only have 8 more pages left and then Rach 2 will be completely memorized in entirety!! My next step will then be to compose a piano concerto which rivals this one. Wish me luck, and sanity.
davidconjefferson 11 months ago
@davidconjefferson
good luck in french: merde. merde. I'm with you. hope y'll make it. do not abandon. GO. God bless
themillionchildren 7 months ago
Where's the Volodos version gone?
gratiaDei777 11 months ago
goosebumps every time I hear it!
greenjelly01 11 months ago
@greenjelly01 ABSOLUTELY
tommy9882 7 months ago
5:19 was a train wreck... but except that, increds.
msg355 11 months ago
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MrRaphaelBM 1 year ago
the last part was a little too slow for my taste, but, ALAS, it's only my taste. :)
DarkPhoenix925 1 year ago
No one comes off the piano seat like Cherkin !! Bravo !!
boots235 1 year ago 2
I'm sorry for others classical composers but Rachmaninov is the best!!
akkun85 1 year ago
I was 16 when I first heard this concerto. I still love it today at 66. It is one of those pieces of music that makes you realise that life without music would be intolerable, that death is suspended whenever it is played. How can such beauty be so fleeting? Just like life itself.
As long as someone plays it, and someone hears it, adores it, then our love, lives forever.
Desdownunda 1 year ago 24
@Desdownunda - beautifully said.
missiheartballet 1 year ago
@Desdownunda That's beautifully said. Are you by any chance a poet? Your prose sings, just like rachmaninoff.
MrAkihiros 1 year ago
@MrAkihiros Thanks, I am flattered by your words. I am gay, so yes, I write poetry. My poetry and short stories are at CodeysWorld, please Google for it.
Look for DesDownunder's stories under Authors.
Desdownunda 1 year ago
@Desdownunda I fail to see the correlation between being gay and poetry but yes I'll check out your works. Cheers!
MrAkihiros 1 year ago
@Desdownunda That is so beautiful
Alexandra3775 2 months ago
Rachmaninoff Concerto N. 2 - III. Allegro scherzando (2/2)
ac3761G 1 year ago
that's correct, youtube didn't exist in the days of Rachmaninov!
marcohorowitz8 1 year ago
The playing is very good, exciting, splendid and everything, but what makes it even better is athleticism, ballerina hand waving, and utterly magnificent powerful gestures (he even beats Lang Lang who played a terrible parody of Horowitz this past July 4th 2010) that makes his unknown name knowable.
nearenough3 1 year ago
the end is f.a.n.t.a.s.t.i.c.
ceveuche 1 year ago
すばらしいです！
sabujyo 1 year ago
one of kind
eimad2u 1 year ago
go on, give them what for, son
kopynd 1 year ago
The range of emotions I feel when I listen to this movement, goosebumps, sadness, happiness, joy......I smile, I cry, I just get completely carried on it, Beautiful !!! The build up to the end is truely awsome, The power from 4.00 mins to the end....WOW, This is by far my favorite piece, it just completely and utterly sends me!!!! What a genius! Thankyou so much for allowing me the honour of listening to it. x
louisvuittonbags67 1 year ago 4
your comments made me have goosebumps xd!
mackbox123 1 year ago
I truly enjoyed this interpretation of the piece. I can close my eyes and get lost in it while listening to the video...I can just imagine surrendering to it in the audience.
1black7cat3 1 year ago
i love this music! =) thanks for posting it.
annasaberon 1 year ago
Brilliant. Thank you, Mr Cherkin. Well done, Mr Dimitrov and Orchestra.
Брилянтно. Благодаря ти, Георги Черкин.
(I hope my Bulgarian is correct. It has been several years since I visited Bulgaria and learnt some of the language.)
lyth46 2 years ago
Thank you Rachmaninov.
ChiefAdministrator 2 years ago
This video (of excellent quality) brings tears to the eyes of a 70 year old former music teacher. This concerto is one of my all time favorites and this is my favorite movement. Oh to be so young and talented as this pianist (only 29 when this was recorded)!
1965Jayhawk 2 years ago 5
Rach didn't spend his lifetime arguing on youtube.
That may have been one of the reasons he became such an amazing composer/pianist/conductor...
tapeteavoador 2 years ago 44
@tapeteavoador They had YouTube back in the early 20th/late 19th century?
Kaggypants 1 year ago
@Kaggypants actually, i believe it was called you-graph back then---if you think rachmaninoff sounds good in HD, you should hear it in morse code
sparkafunk 1 year ago 3
@sparkafunk Thanks for the laugh. =)
Kaggypants 1 year ago
@sparkafunk hahahahaha you're a genius =D
tapeteavoador 1 year ago
@Kaggypants lol, no... but I wonder how many brilliant minds are thrown away nowadays due to our modern "instant pleasures" (maybe Aldous Huxley was right) =]
tapeteavoador 1 year ago
@tapeteavoador A fair question considering we haven't had another Rachmaninoff in over a century.
Kaggypants 1 year ago
I'm not ripping on Rachmaninoff, I just don't like this specific piece. It's pointless and boring. I like some of his solo piano works though--I think those are amazing. I think I a lot of people here believe that they are supposed to like this piece in order to be acknowledged as a "true" musician. It's like showing a guy with a Ph.D in art a picture and him saying how deep and meaningful it is only to learn that the picture was drawn by a monkey. It's okay to have a real opinion people.
kobesunset 2 years ago
@kobesunset Your pretentiousness is delicious. If you think this is long, you must think you'll die before the end of Brahms' 2nd!
Haeronthegreat 2 years ago
makes me so tense its heartwrenching, words cannot describe this peice
syyyru 2 years ago
kobrsunset - u r nuckin futs.
Maybe the first Rachmaninoff concerto is more to your likeing. Serge didn't like that one. He LOVED the second.
kb4uf 2 years ago
It should be the soundtrack to your life then Kobesunset.
fozziebear2009 2 years ago
See, I'm not alone. You agree it was boring too.
kobesunset 2 years ago
lol dumbass
Arfat 2 years ago
This composition was long, boring and pointless.
kobesunset 2 years ago
You have no poetry in your soul.
MaleaBotor 2 years ago
I like Rachmaninoff. This piece just is just disappointing to me. I guess your critisism is just the price one with a more refined taste for music has to pay. If you enjoy mediocracy, you are certainly entitled to it.
kobesunset 2 years ago
Ahahahah, awright. Well, it is at least the least exciting movement, I'll give you that.
MaleaBotor 2 years ago
Go and listen to some pop songs,dude.
You are not suitable to be here.
ChiefAdministrator 2 years ago 4
YOU are not suitable to be here. This place is not for wannabe classical musicians. Go listen to some Chopin, you'll probably like that.
kobesunset 2 years ago
I hope you don't think Chopin is boring and pointless too.
drew2849 2 years ago 3
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drew2849 2 years ago
Bravo!!!
ChiefAdministrator 2 years ago
wssmith68,
Just caught your note, I have not taken a moment to research, however
--I do know that Rand was like Rach a refugee from the Communist revolution.
I am sure there is connection in this area.
The Commies considered individual creativity a sign of bourgeois decadence punishable by death in a prison camp.
You know, similar to the policies advocated by the Algore-Dali Obamalama Global Warmalarmists.
videodog52 2 years ago
Discovered through *The Fountainhead.* Great piece of music.
GrahamGJohnson 2 years ago
How so? I don't remember a specific mention of Rach in Ayn's work. Although the composer in "Atlas Shrugged" seems like Rach. I hope you will explain, as I am a big big fan of both Ayn and Rach.
wsmith68 2 years ago
Full moon and empty arms.........How I love this music.......
nancyfloressantos 2 years ago
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czerwalter27 2 years ago
Great orchestration!! Thanks for sharing.
CeeCeeable 2 years ago
One of my all-time favorite songs. Thanks for sharing this beautiful music.
nancyfloressantos 2 years ago
I cried, that's the best Rachmaninov I've heard, fan-freakintastic, I do wish the brass were a little "larger" during the final push, and the french horns triple fortissimo, (i wonder what's written) but all-in-all great balance and an incredible performance
atrumdecretum 2 years ago
What an incredible performance. This was breathtaking and left me speechless at the end. The final cadenza was outstanding
steinwaygrande1 2 years ago 2
simply...beautiful
styl3zclashz 2 years ago 3
Alexis Weissenberg and Herbert von Karajan
Category: Music
Tags: Rachmaninov Rachmaninoff Weissenberg Karajan piano concerto classic
ac3761G 2 years ago
Belissima obra, adoro.
jozeinternetico 2 years ago
the 2 first min are absolutely wonderful, amazing; I really like the rythm; dan gibson does a really good job with a "remix" on angelsong by the sea (album solitude) of this concerto n°2.
Bobbylatope 2 years ago
TERRIFIC!! THANKS
felixbautista 2 years ago 5
Amazing!
Kaevar 2 years ago 4
im soo gonna learn this piece
297dani 2 years ago 3
same
mvs13I2 2 years ago
AMAZING!!!!!
xxh3llfir3xx 2 years ago 3
This is beautiful!!
I can never watch the end of this concerto or the beginning of Tchaikovski Concerto #1 without tearing up like a baby!!
stonehengesunset 2 years ago 5
I really hove not seen this perfomence heard
this was really beatiful
naokokosuke 2 years ago
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rizelinez 2 years ago
I wish we heard more from this pianist, a real talent evident in this interpretation of rach 2
roosta0013 2 years ago 2
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Hogarth4 2 years ago
I love Rachmaninov.
jvLin 2 years ago 3
Who is this guy!!!! a name, anybody? ....
lmiones 2 years ago
The name of the guy is Georgi Cherkin. Actually it is me :)
Thuliumware 2 years ago 7
My favorite interpretation! I wish I could have been there.
Bravo!
Hogarth4 2 years ago 3
I have also done something really special...check out my song: "The Only Special One"!
Ulf Sawert
Caecarulf 2 years ago
Really impressive Rach no.2 by an unfamous pianist. He could be one of the best interpreter of this piece. He deserves more!
Killua40 2 years ago 8
One of the best classicals pieces ever made!! Bravo!!
Ulf Sawert. Sweden
Caecarulf 2 years ago 4
I am just stunned and speechless !!!!!
blueyoyi 2 years ago 4
His technique is phenomenal. Especially the glissandi...
hiyetty 3 years ago 4
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KevinR3i 3 years ago
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KevinR3i 3 years ago
Go Go rachmaninoff....
KevinR3i 3 years ago 2
The last 2 minutes are the absoulte best. Its unbashingly romantic....no words for it. PERFECTION. Go Rachmaninoff!
IamKesyerSoze 3 years ago 22
-_- i wanted to answer the GRATIADEI777's comment, but I never manage to do it correctly, that user said:
How has this video got a whole 100,000 more views than the video preceding it (first part of the third movement)?
02/10/2008
Rachmaninoff Concerto N. 2 - III. Allegro scherzando (1/2)
19,892 views
Rachmaninoff Concerto N. 2 - III. Allegro scherzando (2/2)
119,431 views
I know the ending is necessarily more exciting that the beginning, but a whole 100,000 more views... it's just too much
IDoriard 3 years ago 3
I think this is one of the best interpretation of the whole piece that I've ever heard in my life (disregarding tuning prob, etc). Bravo!!!
sunnysunny1234567 3 years ago 3
J'adore Rachmaninov et tout spécialement ce concerto.
Merci
Jackylen57
jackylen57 3 years ago
Bravo Cherkin, Bravo
IlgarT 3 years ago
when is the next concert in sofia
kopynd 3 years ago
rach reborn
kopynd 3 years ago
any RPT like me can tell that there are a few notes that are out of tune, the person who tuned this piano was abviouly not taught how to set and strenghen every key, something that's a must when you have someone playing this type of song, so fire the tuner and get someone else!
as51hit 3 years ago
this sort of proves that a shitty recording doesnt matter as long as the performance is great
lajollafilm 3 years ago
How has this video got a whole 100,000 more views than the video preceding it (first part of the third movement)?
02/10/2008
Rachmaninoff Concerto N. 2 - III. Allegro scherzando (1/2)
19,892 views
Rachmaninoff Concerto N. 2 - III. Allegro scherzando (2/2)
119,431 views
I know the ending is necessarily more exciting that the beginning, but a whole 100,000 more views... it's just too much
gratiaDei777 3 years ago 5
I have an answer for you, or at least a part of answer...
There is an anime, called "Nodame Cantabile" which uses a lot of classical songs, and in the second season, the opening song is a remix on this song by the Gospellers, the song is sort of cool, but the original is just GREAT and made me cry... and this part of the video has most of the sounds used in the remix, called "SKY HIGH"...
Well if you wanna hear, is SKY HIGH by THE GOSPELLERS
The anime is NODAME CANTABILE PARIS HEN
IDoriard 3 years ago
that is an awesome anime for classical lovers.
Exarian 3 years ago 2
I don`t find much difference in difficulty between the second and third paino concertos. Certainly, both of them are much more difficult than that by Grieg. However, this last one has a cadenza which really is a tour de force for any pianist
Trepper1940 3 years ago
i had no trouble learning the 2nd, but the 3rd looks like a bittttcccchhhhhhhh
lajollafilm 3 years ago
I was reading the score along with the music... This will take a long time to learn, I can't even begin to imagine what it took Cherkin to master it, let alone the great Rach to compose it
mmainieri 3 years ago 2
Maravilloso!
Gustavoequis 3 years ago
if rach seen that performance,he would be amazed,an excellent example of the masters work
kopynd 3 years ago 3
Sorry to be the Simon Cowell of the group Kopynd, but I think Rach would be spinning in his grave. Certainly Cherkin can play better than probably any of us, but his performance was strange at times...way too slow in parts, then too fast, with some sloppiness in between. Still, a great, stirring masterpiece.
dannybex 3 years ago
i disagree. shut the fuck up
mdoub 3 years ago
haha...
MfourK 3 years ago
you just made the troll successful
lizzieodonnell 3 years ago
when u cuss... ppl jus assume ur ignorant and they wont listen.
bolshoiboy8 3 years ago
but i disagree 2!!!
bolshoiboy8 3 years ago
Well, maybe standing up at the last chord is a just a little too showy, but this guy's good. And of course I'm always glad to hear Rach 2, even though it's been overdone.
102938z 3 years ago
absolutely brilliant in its simplicity, energy, and timing
lajollafilm 3 years ago
Did horowitz ever do this one?
lizzieodonnell 3 years ago
BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as well
alberchri 3 years ago
BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
sadbaaa 3 years ago
No, no recordings, movies maybe. I just had the joy of listening to him live every single week :P
dragonbird000 3 years ago
omg its the best ending ever...
soupdragon12345 3 years ago 2
son gorditas las manos
zetangie 3 years ago
Let the music play... bravo Mr Cherkin... an absolute masterpiece...
symphony716 3 years ago
I absolutely loved playing this along side Carmina Burana. It was so moving! My teacher Mark Gasser performed it. I get a real kick from performing and listening to love music :)
dragonbird000 3 years ago
Have you got any recordings of Mark Gasser's playing? I'm trying to get hold of some.
cziffra1980 3 years ago
exciting, esp the coda
xiuje87 3 years ago
I thought this was the tops till I heard the third concerto and found it to be as great as this one. I am at a loss for words to express the greatness of this concerto. BRAVO-BRAVO-BRAVO!!!
klaaaan 3 years ago 3
Yes Rachmaninoff tends to shock and awe, even after a century
4ngry4nus 3 years ago
Did you know he wrote his second concerto for his psychologist?
dragonbird000 3 years ago
I know. Weird, huh? But it's a beautiful piece, no doubt. Regardless of who it was written for. :D
IamKesyerSoze 3 years ago
Rach #3 is very difficult especially for women. Rach had large and strong hands and he composed his concerto's as such. Many a stage manager has groaned when he was in town cause his hands were so strong that he's been known the break strings on the piano he was performing on.
klaaaan 3 years ago 3
Rachmaninov was thought to have suffered from Marfan Syndrome (though this has not been confirmed), a genetic disorder characterized by long limbs, tall stature and such. sd goh (malaysia)
301250 3 years ago
mui weno!!!
wheas007 3 years ago
i love this concert, rachmaninov rules!
arntorawarrior 3 years ago
I think that No3 is better than No2, who else agree with me?
TK2008BEST 3 years ago
rachmaninov also liked # 3 better because it was easier to perform.
cstarsoft2000 3 years ago
Uh... easier??? number 3 is obviously the more difficult of the two.
yamahaU3 3 years ago 5
Exactly. They say that No3 is the MOST difficult piece in the whole classic music!
TK2008BEST 3 years ago
actually, he'cstar isn't completely wrong. Rach said that Concerto #3 fell under his fingers easier. I think #3 is harder though.
lacrymosa85 3 years ago
The reason he said it was easier was because it expanded a lot more in terms of having 10th and 11th chords. His hand was naturally large, and the 2nd piano concert cramped it all together :P
I've had the honor to play the 2nd and the 3rd!
4ngry4nus 3 years ago
I've been told that the 2nd isnt really THAT hard (at least in virtuosism)..I've was told it was like at the same level of the Grieg Concerto and slightly below a Chopin concerto, of course the technical difficulties must be different..but would you say this also? I really would love to play it, I'd like to know if the Grieg Concerto or a Mnedelssohn concerto would be a good preparatory concerto for this one...Thanks
danielags16 3 years ago
It does require high levels of technique, because not everyone can play his complex chords, as their hands are way too small. Grieg and Mendelssohn all have their own taste :) Grieg is viking-like in strength, but Mendelssohn is more delicate at times.
4ngry4nus 3 years ago
lol..I know people with small hand that can barely reach a 9nth (and this concert requires more) that played this concerto.I suppose a lot of people leave out one note in such situations.
danielags16 3 years ago
Amazing pianist!
.....bad camera.
ayayosh6v6 3 years ago
this is the most underrated pianist
mdoub 3 years ago 9
amazing
makes me tremble
DelSolu 3 years ago 3
Haha Rachmaninoff tends to do that
4ngry4nus 3 years ago
Great playing, but bad camera
boredom4321 3 years ago
Really good pianist!
Ulf Sawert. Sweden
Caecarulf 3 years ago 2
I just love this concerto...it´s so beautiful!
Ulf Sawert. Sweden
Caecarulf 3 years ago 3
WOW!!!!!!...Ta tova e sigyrno nai-dobroto izpulnenie na Rachmaninoff-2nd Piano Concerto, koeto sum 4uvala nqkoga! Hilqdi puti BRAVO! Bravo Jore! :);):)))
innaangelova 3 years ago 2
Best finale of any music piece ever.
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago 4