Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C# Minor (Rachmaninoff)

[dship98]

This rendition (I know it is by Rachmaninoff himself) is a bit too fast for my taste... :P

[xXAzNBa0Xx]

so in love right now

[ChameleonOnline]

best interpretation of this piece on youtube by far

[nathanlolo99]

@ChameleonOnline cuz its the way sergei wanted it played (he plays it himself)

[ChameleonOnline]

@nathanlolo99 where did you get these recordings?? the quality is too excellent for being recorded in the 1920's

[montana2063]

@ChameleonOnline Um, read the description

[juliocesar81]

it's not true!

FFFF is fortissimissimissimo ( i'm italian )

[FXVG]

Can someone explain the sheet music to me please, is this a duet because there are four braced staves?

[oliviafroggie]

@FXVG the top two lines are right hand, bottom two are left hand. one person played at the same time. it really is not as difficult as it looks. i learned this piece pretty quick and i thought the same thing as you when i first saw it! just look at again. helpful?

[FXVG]

@oliviafroggie Still wondering about times like 2:46 where it has 6 notes being played on each hand at the beginning of the bar.

[ghostryderxxx1]

@FXVG The C sharp octave is played before the chord....you can hear it if you listen carefully. It's played really quickly, almost like a grace note.

[montana2063]

@FXVG If you listen really closely you can hear the bass cords being played an instant before jumping to the 8th notes. I'm guessing that's what the bracket is for.

[FXVG]

@montana2063 Aha! You're correct. As is @ghotryderxxx1. Thanks!

[tamcocar]

The recording method is very very interesting. Thank you for sharing this.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

please, ask him to make Chopin's sonata no.2 ....

[ImmortalSpecies]

Ohh i learned this piece ages ago. wish someone will want to hear my music lol

[GuinnevereB]

It's delightful to hear a piano roll recorded by a fabulous artist like Rachmaninoff, because the roll plays back his performance exactly as it would have sounded (had he been playing the same kind of instrument that is playing the roll). We get his expression and his pacing, and with a concert-grade piano we get a superior listening experience. (The first time I heard of such a thing was when an album of piano roll recordings by George Gershwin was released. Marvelous!) Thanks for posting it.

[MrsChocolatte99]

I just love Rachmaninoff . I don't know why.

[bachopinbee5991]

outstanding

[Blazeman1999]

anything under P is a auto turn off for me to play the song, I LIKE EM LOUD! however i must say, this song is amazing, and well, i learned it at age 13 :P

[Ybarchov21]

Anyone can learn 0:00 - 1:40 and 2:20 - 3:49

It's the middle 40 seconds that define the piece and make it a work of art.

[JauntyAngle]

greatest song ever written

[Ybarchov21]

@JauntyAngle Composition...work...anything but song...

Songs have singing in them.

[TheLivingangel123]

Someone was angry while writing this... xD

Amazing piece! Rachmaninoff is one of my most favorite composers!

[toupmaster]

Le génie au désespoir. Sublime!

[Oneofthebadkids11]

Rachmaninoff? Pure genuis if you ask me..

[themaupaez]

Fabulous

[Hamporkcheese]

does anybody think of Charles Mingus like i do???

[qwerty12345678960]

@Hamporkcheese haha you're not alone! All the the thing you C# !!!

[themaupaez]

Excellent song and piano

[swirls999]

@themaupaez In what way is this a fucking song?

[eqbrim]

@swirls999 in what way is this not a fucking song

[swirls999]

@eqbrim  I don't hear any singing

[eqbrim]

@swirls999 im sorry man but your an idiot, why are you even watching this if you do not appreciate the music?

[Lordwobblynob83]

@eqbrim *you're.

And he/she's right it's not a song. Amazing, but not a song.

[eqbrim]

@Lordwobblynob83 and the spelling nazis are out run for your life! Anything with music is a song to me. i know it by no other name!

[Lordwobblynob83]

@eqbrim Hardly Nazism. The fact that you find it such a challenge to differentiate between your and you're in itself speaks volumes, so to make things easier:

Song:

A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.

Music:

The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

The vocal or instrumental sound produced in this way.

So you see the other name you're looking for is "music"...

[eqbrim]

@Lordwobblynob83 calm down calm down, no need to search all over the internet its a just a song and a great song at that.

[Lordwobblynob83]

@eqbrim Oh dear. It's not a song. It's music. If you're hearing voices singing (a pre-requisite for a song) they're the sort that you should seek medical assistance for regardless of how melodic they may seem.

[wierdo1232123]

I love how the last chord isn't C# minor....Its A Major!!!

[KevinBeethoven]

@wierdo1232123 its c sharp minor.

[wierdo1232123]

@KevinBeethoven No. Its A Major. The chord is octave C#'s in the left hand and C#, E, A, C# in the right hand. The final chord is an A Major chord.

[KevinBeethoven]

@wierdo1232123 First of all, if you have notices the final bar has FOUR lines. the triple- octave C sharp is played then in the left hand a 2nd inversion c sharp minor chord moves up to a first inversion c#m chord. in the right hand a root c#m chord moves up to a 2nd inversion c#m chord. there is no A major chord unless you read the left hand chord in treble clef.

[JennaGwenna]

@wierdo1232123 the final measure has four lines. it is c#m. what you were reading is the top bass clef staff as treble clef, which would indeed make the chord A Major.

[XxPaztheSpazxX]

FFFF is pronounced fortissississimo

[TheBananian]

@XxPaztheSpazxX haha i hate to be a kill joy but you can actually pronounce that like quad forte. or quadruple F's lol. something i learned from my theory class :D

[wierdo1232123]

@XxPaztheSpazxX

Or you could say (like most sane people) quadruple forte. My comp teacher calls its double, triple and quadruple forte respectively.

[jeef290]

@XxPaztheSpazxX There is technically no such thing as fortissississimo, it only goes to fortississimo or FFF

[Ybarchov21]

@jeef290 Since the Romantic period, dynamics like FFFFFF and pppppp exist. While the "names" for them aren't really friendly (Fortissississississimo... :/ ), the dynamics do exist and how loud or soft they are compared to the rest of the piece. For example, if you see a FF and a FFFF, obviously you would play both very loud, but the later will be much louder.

A famous example of a pppppp is the opening basson solo in Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony.

[XxKitsuneHeartxX]

@Ybarchov21 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF? D:

[EduOrta142536]

fortisisisisimo or something like that

[BenjaminTheHolyDiver]

FFFF!!?!?!? like

Fortizzimo fortizzimo?