Sergey Rachmaninov plays Gluck "Melody"

[HotSo0P]

Where did you get those images from?

[johnharmer1943]

O such beauty! I came to listen to this after listening to the piano roll transcription, also very beautiful, but this somehow tugs that bit harder at the heart strings, you can feel him there, so sad and lonely, but magnificent. The piano roll can be found on voland60's channel if you want to compare.

[TheHttpd]

When I heard first time Gluck melody, I was sleeping and my roommate (he is pianist) were playing this beauty melody then I wake up and listen him. After I found from Sergei and I just listen and listen again. No word can explain feelings with that sound. A piece of heaven.

[paulostroff99]

Awesome.Indescribable beauty. TY Funmusic18 for posting

[luzsorial]

Thank you!

Luz

[ydraki]

Composition and Rachmaninov's piano leave me spellbound. I recommend listening same piece with violinist Christian Ferras.

[elykhin]

the trill at 1:58 is magnificent

[paulostroff99]

Awesome! TY Funmusic18 for posting.

[FandeKirby174]

2 dont me gusta?

[NathalyVAinshtein]

XXX



[Bret6464]

Rachmaninoff truly mesmerizes, he grabs you, and you are lost in emotion, in reverie, in your dream... and memories replay.

Immensely and painfully beautiful performance. Thank you for sharing :-)

[avalokiteshivara]

O rachmaninoff interprete e o rachmaninoff compositor são seres totalmente diferentes vivendo no mesmo corpo! Um refinamento fora de série se ouve aqui!!

Quero ouvir muito mais dele tocando!

[parsifal3142]

The playing is stunningly and disarmingly simple. What a fantastic pianist.

[lucamadeus]

immense genius of piano interpretation

[anttisairanen]

This the great master's message to the future generations. A most beautiful lesson in the art of piano. Nothing to add.

[anttisairanen]

@squirtleenblastoise This rubbish has nothing to do with me, re. @squirtleenblastoise's message in my name. I tried to find in Youtube a way to report this misuse but could only report as spam. There are couple other forums where somebody plays the same stupid game.

[squirtleenblastoise]

@anttisairanen no need any more. deleted it already. gosh

[pianoloverforever]

can someone send me the sheet music PLEASE !

[hilocomtoot]

@pianoloverforever Have you found the sheet music yet? I don't know your level of playing but Rach makes this sound very easy, it's not! To get his smooth line of the melody is very tricky as to what finger of what hand plays certain notes and the pedaling is also very discrete. I do have the sheet music. If you want it we should do so by email and you may have to coach me at getting it to you, It speak the classical piano, note these computers. Mike

[tchykovsky]

@hilocomtoot It's a very hard piece, I agree. He does make this sound easy.

[aamid1]

@pianoloverforever , here the " 216.129.110.22/files/imglnks/u­simg/7/79/IMSLP02720-Sgambati_­gluck.pdf "

[nicorohe]

i love melody

[hilocomtoot]

Does anyone know the people in the photo at about 2:30? Especially the gentleman to the left of Rach.

many thanks!

[MrMrMikayel]

Bravo!!!

[BROTHYAM]

I like it ... It's really sad and beautiful ....

[marden67]

@BROTHYAM Yes... It brought tears in my eyes...

[lovesGenet]

WOW! every attack possible .such lightness and those strange willowy trills that decr beautifully . This is really fine no sense of hammers .just a spun line .Magical. Why didn't Hofmann deliver the goods in 1948 ? I've heard many a lesser pianist do well in this.

[helenagothicangel13]

Who arranged this?

[asachildtobecome]

@helenagothicangel13 HE DID. Rachmaninov

[StefanInvAsian]

@asachildtobecome Not really, Sgambatti arranged it ;)

[BoMaks3]

Sergei*

[SarrasaniPianoCircus]

All the other pianists playing this piece seems students if compared to this one....

[asv8104]

So many emotion in this short piece

[uhartchristian]

thanks for sharing this . the deepest insight into the soul of an artist.... a magic moment where we have a sight into heaven.....

[leontud]

God blessed us .......but took him away too soon.

[janraffaello]

I didn't hear Rachmaninow yet in this: marvellous (as always)!!! Thanks so much. Wasn't he great?

[jghancockjr]

Petri and Novaes also made beautiful recordings of this

piece, but they have not yet appeared on YT.

[jzjoynt]

My pop turns 99 on Christmas Day, and he saw Rachmaninoff play his Second Concerto in Philly w/ Stokowsky conducting is say....1937??38?

Probably the reason I'm a muzo...

[Yuriy21]

Да, два гения земли русской - Рахманинов и Шаляпин -были вынуждены покинуть свою Родину - как и многие другие...Какая громадная потеря для русской культуры...

[unclePTM]

what else can you ask for....

[ilovescarlatti]

OMG!!!! what a beautiful performance!!!!! super Rachmaninoff...

[asachildtobecome]

Ahhhhh.....over and over with just the touch of a computer key or two..this tender, magnificent interpretetion under Sergei's hands brings to so many of us such delight, beauty and wonder that lives on and on. I feel an enduring gratitude for all that has made it possible to bring after nearly 100 years, Gluck's Melody caressed by Sergei's hands.

[meredith21846]

How many of todays so called lions of the keyboard could produce such a melting cantabile?. Rachmaninovs unique artistry will live on through time.

[anttisairanen]

@meredith21846

Nobody.

[Bruce88keys]

@meredith21846 not many know how great a pianist Rachmaninov was/is- he had the best sound

[paulprocopolis]

This is indeed exquisite.

[gennieann9]

Who ever gave us this on Youtube shared eternal beauty.

I was breathless listening. And imagine that it is Rachmaninov playing! Takes one to see one , i.e. the genius of a fellow composer.

[leontud]

Kissin is a brilliant performer but he lacks emotion

[asachildtobecome]

What magnificent magic! The marriage of a "modern" invention: The phonograph, just in time to allow us to hear this beautiful rendition of Gluck's melodie. Mr. Rachmaninoff, I am deeply thankful and honored to be able to hear your playing, instead of simply hearing about, your playing. Thankful to Edison and all that makes it possible to enjoy gems as these. What a time we live in!.

This priviliged time comes with a reverent responsibility. Let's clean up after our "tracks".

[lekmioas]

I completely agree with Fodorev above. Astounding interpretation, Mr. Kissin plays like a badly-combed high-school graduate in comparison.

[1pattipiano1]

wow.

[lalaoroble]

maravilloso

[methius1987]

there's nothing to do, rachmaninoff was and is the greatest.....no words....

[Fodorev]

this is something unique!!! - Please Mr. Kissin have a look at this and try to get what phrasing and articulation means!!.

Don't try to show your beatiful hands , that´s not enough!!

[fanofnina1975]

Sorry for my ignorance...

This is Sgambati`s transcription?

[RutBats]

Siloti's transcription.

[elliottdb]

Sgambati is correct.

[doommanager]

This is the most beautiful piano recording of all time.

[NaomiGigi]

I think so too, beatnikjd.

I don't like this work very much, but he plays it so full of love, every tone is so important, it's just unbelievable. I'm really touched

[vladimirgligoric]

Happy birthday beautiful Maestro!

[beatnikjd]

Didn't Kempff arrange the Bach Siciliana for piano solo? Another piece originally for flute. I will make an effort to find the disk you recommended.

[RutBats]

Yes, and months ago you could hear it here. I don't know if it's still here.

[beatnikjd]

This is the most perfect performance of this work I have heard. A true master of rubato. What a shame there are no musicians like him today.

[cwcascales]

"This is the most perfect performance of this work I have heard. A true master of rubato. What a shame there are no musicians like him today.

Wilhelm Kempff on a deutsche gramophone CD has a beautiful recording of this piece- which was originally written for flute. It includes many Bach and Handel works as well. It's found on Amazon.

[musicpiano14]

there is no good ground for such talent as Sergei was. Let's face it, We live in totally spiritualy-degradated world. Even air is not the same as it was at that time.

People were more clear spiritualy than today. And it is very pity fact indeed.

[beatnikjd]

Sadly, you are probably right. Most people no longer read and have lost the sense of wonder that is critical to creativity. I was fortunate enough to have been born shortly after the war and have the chance to interact and learn from members of Rachmaninoff's generation. The world will never see their like again.

[frootlups]

I agree with you three on many levels, but I think people will have to find new ways to express beauty. Not to say that classical piano is dead; in no way am I saying that. However, I believe that the truly beautiful compositions of the past are unlike anything that will ever again be composed for the piano.

With that said, I have seen something rather unusual in Muse, whom I consider to be the most amazing band of today. Their classical influences are apparent.

[peterchopin22]

It sounds so if someone say my Don't be

worry it will by better!

[pionata]

Yeah, but women are all the same...

[peterchopin22]

This is Music !!!!!!!!!!

[as6146273]

In the Gluck´s opera Orpheus and Eurydice this melody is a flute solo, but it has been adapted to violin and piano and played by great performers. You can listen here in You Tube some of the best in both instrumants - this one by S. Rachmaninov or by Nelson Freire (piano) and Heifetz or Milestein (violin) for instance.

[aldebussy]

Can somebody tell me from what aria from Orpheus this is taken? It's bugging me. I like vocal music and I can't find an aria under the name of Gluck that sounds similar.

Beautiful. It reminds me of Mozart's Fantasy in D minor.

[neovirgin]

It isn't an aria. It is a flute / recorder solo (with orchestral accompaniment) called the Dance of the Blessed Spirits. I'm too lazy to find out in which Act it occurs but I think you hear it sometime after Orpheus goes into the Underworld to look for Eurydice.

[danielliviu]

Although very free, I love it!

[letseehere07]

To hear such a clear bass line, with its few echoing notes, within the 3 voices is truly remarkable. A very much more controlled performance from the master (compare his Elegie performance, very rubato). A wonderful item, thank you.

[MusicDoLove]

Remarkably beautiful.

[RutBats]

How different from modern interpretations! Amazing. Thanks.

[Dobrib]

Magnificent!TY

[paulostroff99]

Superb! Bravo! TY James for another gem.

[PhillipLWilcher]

If music takes up where words leave off to express the inexpressible....

It's Heaven!

[sfkcbf]

Beautifully produced video with the sensitive piano performance and the old photos...almost poignant to experience.

[koncertpianist]

This is actually my favorite perfomance. It is so beautiful and expressive, it is one of the very few recordings of piano music that can bring the tears to my eyes (I listen mostly to piano music...)the sound reminds me of that of the human voice of the greatest singers and the timing is like only Rachmaninov could do it!

[pianopera]

Have you heard Mark Hambourg in this piece? It's as gorgeous as this...

[jpoiyacneo]

Do you have it?

[Lissi012]

...bravourös...

[pianobanana123]

I like his music

Special blue mood

[fartlestucks]

Ye GODS! Nothing more to say, is there?

[Juliasays08]

It is genious.

[hcchan01]

Thank you for posting the precious pictures. I especially like the pictures with Rachmaninoff reading with his dog next to him!

[hcchan01]

Thank you for posting the precious pictures. I especially like the pictures with Rachmaninoff reading with his dog next to him!

[hcchan01]

Thank you for posting the precious pictures. I especially like the pictures with Rachmaninoff reading with his dog next to him!