Kissin -Rachmaninov piano concerto #2, mvt. II. (part 1)

[nomadj2784]

Evgeny Kissin needs to get rid of that stupid haircut. Besides that he's pretty good.

[AFcunningham]

opening piano theme is the most perfect piece of music ive ever heard.

[xrayman149]

@AFcunningham Amen, brother. This movement from Rachmaninoff and part 2 of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor can make me weep. Such sublime music that one would think angels composed them.

[schmuckenheimer9]

Anybody else think the romantic era was without a doubt the greatest era of music?

[koljas66]

wonderful playing!

[ammallo1]

Cuando escucho esta pieza, creo que voy a morir de felicidad! Oh no sé que!

Es Increíble lo que experimento!!!!

[thejesusfreak919]

Made me cry.

[mimibarn]

For most English people this will always be associated with a clasic love story film called "Brief Encounter" - needless to say it was a story of heartbreak.

[march181959]

I'd like to put three classical composers at the top of my best composers list. I can't decide on two, but I can never take Rachmaninov out of the number one spot. Absolute genius.

[jonaggod]

@march181959 Since you didn't say your "favorite composers list", let me suggest two: JS Bach and LV Beethoven.

[BooeyHogue]

has brought me to tears at times.

[wildnites558]

The Orchestra, world class. The Music, ethereal. The Pianist, virtuoso. The hair, Eraser-head!

[papcyrill]

Steven spielberg playing the flute ,!,,,

[karim1250able]

Mavilloso este concierto hace que mi alma se eleve al mismo universo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mycatsapunk]

too slow and self-absorbed IMO.

[rugsack2005]

Sublime !!!!!!!!!

[lmfviolet78]

That melody at 4:20 is so ridiculously beautiful. It haunts my dreams. I wish I understood how Rachmaninoff somehow managed to capture the meaning of the universe in a simple melody...

[martimtavares]

@lmfviolet78 the meaning of the universe in a simple melody? ahah, okay...

[rukashawn]

i really hate the words placed on this piece

words tend to manipulate music.

[fiercedragoon1982]

Anybody else notice the first 22 seconds of this song sounds an awful lot like the intro to the Final Fantasy VI: Grand Finale version of Aria di Mezzo Carattere? Interesting...

[pspdipendente]

All by myseeeeelf

[Lastfiveviolins]

When I listen to the second movement of Rachmoninoff's 2nd piano concerto, I see a happy person on the outside. But on the inside, I see a person with a broken heart

[lunalaura2]

!!!Magistral,emotivo,absolutam­ante hermoso!!!

[MrGuillenreyes]

Hoy 27de octubre de 2011se cumplen 111años de la premier mundial de este concierto dedicado al Dr. Nicolai Dahl

[MrGuillenreyes]

Bellísimo movimiento típico ruso

[queenlemoness]

I've listened to many interpretations of rach 2...and I know the elitists will hang me for saying this...but Kissin does it best. Well maybe Ashkenazy is equal.

[PhillyB702]

@queenlemoness Richter =)

[Painerzero]

I think im going to cry... ^^

[CrzYpRsOn770]

Completeluy beautiful

[Wonocva15]

@123jsbach

Uh, cool story, but what does that have to do with music?

[pesealxp]

esto es lo mejor que he escuchado en mi vida es tan sublimente bello que podria estar escuchandolo todo el dia.

[rawrgDX]

I can honestly say that this concerto is my favorite piece of all time! I've heard Beethoven, sang in Mozart and Mahler, and have a huge music crush on Debussy. But all of that doesn't matter cuz this piece is PHANTASMAGORIC! Plus the conductor looks like he needs a hug at the beginning. XD

[AirBoyPlummets]

if you have a cough, please go to the concerts where they play louder pieces.

[theFforlife]

Please someone make a tutorial for the piano part...

Please !

[123eldest]

@theFforlife hahaha, that made me laugh

[chickennrunn]

@theFforlife i have a written tutorial for you:  climb back inside your mother's womb, be reborn a child prodigy, dedicate every waking hour of your life in front of a piano, grow an awesome virtuoso-afro ("virtuofro"), become famous, get a gig at Royal Albert Hall, practice, practice, practice, and then make everyone who watches you, live or on videotape, cry like a little girl

[BooeyHogue]

has made me cry a few times

[MrCamilleBC]

loved the all by myself coment :D

[stino22]

Is the video out of sync with the audio near the end? It just seemed like music was playing, but his fingers weren't matching it. Either way, sounds great.

[Wonocva15]

@hostclub

Back then, they were so good at music they didn't need words to make you feel sad.

[123jsbach]

@Wonocva15 I don't need words to make me feel sad; the daylight robbery which poses as the gas bill would bring tear to a glass eye.

[kennethshinozuka]

8 listeners cried so hard that they mistook the like button for the dislike button.

[kashtanker]

I saw his performance in Hong Kong a couple of years ago. He received standing ovation from the audiences. I was among them. he is a star, talent beyond comparison.

[ThePowerpoon]

And.....the whole world silence, listened and shed tears, then started laughing when they saw his lips kept twiching at 2:43-2:47

[Mjolbaggar]

Needs more bass

[thejesusfreak919]

If Kissin has a teacher...doesn't that mean the teacher knows more than him...then, why isn't the teacher famous instead?

[pentiumradeon]

@thejesusfreak919 wunderkind like him usually surpass the abilities of any teachers by the age of 12 im sure.

[hpddad]

Other way around yung4evr

[yung4evr]

I'm fairly certain this piece was taken from Eric Carmen's "All By Myself".

[thejesusfreak919]

@yung4evr

Other way around. Carmen had an agreement with the Rachmaninoff estate that he could use it. This was written in 1900 and performed in 1901; all by myself was written and performed in 1975.

[piax00]

He plays it like he's playing Chopin, LOL. Too light and sweet. Graffman gets it. Has more darkness. But Kissin is phenomenal. And I like it anyway.

[vikutsamikutsa]

@piax00 I've heard Graffman and think that Kissin feels it much better.

[PineyWhitepine]

Breath taking !

Awesome !

[marleyfan008]

That was the most inspirational,life-changing, piece of heaven/music I have ever heard. Thank you guys. I had a divorce with my wife and she took all my property,children,and money. After I heard this song I cried for an hour and called my wife, crying and I apologized for my mistakes. We are back together and Im happy again. Thank you so much. This song is the reason that I kept holding on to life and not commiting suicide. God bless.

[AzureBluee]

Absolutely beautiful.

[hostclub17]

ALL BY MYSELF

[ValhallaC9]

@hostclub17 About 15 years ago when I first heard this piece, I couldn't stop thinking of how it reminded me of a song and then it finally hit me. There's no telling how many songs have been written using the melodies of classicals.

[mavrin41077]

at 01:58 "All By Miself"

[brunoflauta]

@mavrin41077 f*** .... all by miself its an imitation of this concert...

[brunoflauta]

@hostclub17 no, Rachmaninov piano concerto #2, mvt. II.,  all by myself its a shit imitation...

[hikarufuego]

@hostclub17 When I was young

I never needed anyone

And making love was just for fun

Those days are gone

Livin' alone

I think of all the friends I've known

When I dial the telephone

Nobody's home

[xrayman149]

@hikarufuego I love how modern composers of pop and other types of music borrow from the great classical music. It's fine with me. Listen to the first part of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and then hear Eric Carmen's I'll Never Fall in Love Again. Eric in my opinion has the right to borrow from the great Rachmaninoff. Eric was a musical prodigy from an early age and can play classical...he earned the right.

[hikarufuego]

@xrayman149 yeah! i love his songs... have you heard alicia key's as i am... she played chopin's nocturne in c sharp minor as an intro... ^_^

[dudadede]

@hostclub17 ¬¬

[Keira13]

this is brilliant.

I also really love that clarinet solo.

[dontdithishome]

tomorrow i am gonna hear this piecewith orchestra and all(=

[izadeeg]

The begining kinda reminds me of Beethovens moonlight sonata.

[dedbusted]

@izadeeg Or Tchaikovsky's no. 2 second movement

[cives]

@mmoynan Childishness? Because I love Rachmaninov and I do not accept that a shameless pirate copied him and took credit of his work? Your US music industry considers US foreigners as pirates because we download your films and music... But whenever it is Americans who pirate and copy without any shame foreigners' intellectual property, then you always justify it!

[freestylerja16]

Rach's music is too beautiful to be depressing

[mikdeezee]

this osng sounds like all by myself eric carmen

[StefanInvAsian]

@mikdeezee The song All by myself is based on this piece

[cives]

@CoalClear My iPad's English automatic corrector modified and changed my Spanish lesson to you. I repeat it to you correctly: ¡Pero qué pedazo de gilipollas estás hecho, so ignorante! Esto no es una canción, sino un movimiento de un concierto. Eres un niño chico, y profundamente estúpido. Do you want me to translate it? If you missed so many classes and show such ignorance, I will probably have to do it. Let me know... I can even write it to you in a few more languages, my dear ignorant!

[mmoynan]

@cives Please take your childishness elsewhere.

[cives]

@CoalClear Oh! How am I scared! The scoundrel of the class is threatening me...! What a child! ¡Pero qué pedal de gilipollas estás echo, so ignorante! If you wouldn't have missed so many classes, you would not be showing your ignorance publicly! I repeat, for you to learn: this is not a song, but a movement of the three that classically compound the form "concert". Tomorrow, the next lesson...

[Hypebusta]

the beginning measures of this movement sound eerily similar to the beginning chords of Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend"

[cives]

@GospelPerverter Even though this pirate (Eric Carmen) really thought that the concert was in the public domain, this does not avoid the fact that he copied and hid the fact that it was a copy of someone else's work. In any case, it is a cheat.

[cives]

@GospelPerverter You are really naïf. This guy copied the song and denied repeatedly that he had copied it. This is not a proof of misknowledge or good will, at all!

[soullessSiIence]

I don't shed tears just because I'm a man and wanna hold them up.

[JayMaySayHey]

Мой дорогой друг Elfinsafety, это привидение Rachmaninov: ПОЖАЛУЙСТА сорвите и вывесьте ПОЛНЫЕ движения моих нот и don' t ДЕКАПТИРУЕТ его по мере того как вы сделали в этом и других видео. Вы.

[123456789derts]

Why smart people are weird? Look at the hair of the pianis! God! hauhauuah

[darandar17]

The song All by my self by Eric Carmen it's based on this mvt. You can feel the sadness of the compositor and cry

[cives]

@darandar17 It is NOT BASED; it is completely A COPY.

[TheSirPsych0]

nevertheless he is extremely talented

[TheSirPsych0]

beautiful song, but that guy with the birds nest looks like hes gonna nut on the key board at 2:47

[CoalClear]

Does anyone know where the other video of this song went?

Played by that young russian boy with the ponytail???

[cives]

@CoalClear This is not a song, it is a movement of a concert for piano and orchestra. Don't be a child.

[CoalClear]

@cives Forgive the naivety, take care on disembarking your wondrously bulbous head from thine excretory gap though! Cheers.



[chobeethaninov]

Inspired by our dear Maestro, I will hopefully start learning this piece...This is heavenly, Kissin....You should perform this piece more often

[ChorAkademiiMorskiej]

from flute to clairnet....brlliant...

I can't stop listen this mvt....

[MsPrinceoftennis]

is this the one Celine Dion sung as All by myself?

[Likeafoxow]

@MsPrinceoftennis the resemblance is scary. well we know that rach came before celine dion, so this is definitely the original

[gillwilkinsongw]

@MsPrinceoftennis Yes it most certainly is. Eric Carmen sang it before her, but it is the same piece.

[cives]

@MsPrinceoftennis Eric Carmen copied this from Rachmaninov. In the end he confessed that he had copied it and it is now declared Rachmaninov as coauthor in the song credits.

[daughterofjack]

An awesome transition from the flute to the clarinet. I play this piece over and over in my favorites- my father's favorite piece - I can't help but love it so much.

[keetner]

@daughterofjack

Yeah, when I first listened to a recording of this piece, I always wondered whether it was a flute or clarinet...till I realized it was both! Fantastic stuff.

[gumslinger]

Chuck Norris cried to this song.

[vyrkolak]

@gumslinger very very Inappropriate but very very funny :))

[hotstripeinfudel]

@gumslinger Then why is cancer still here, hmmmm?

[TheDon444]

@gumslinger ..and probably Nick Clegg does as well!! lol

[alexrfk50]

@gumslinger  He did, but it's not a song.

[maalaea]

man has killed billions, but then there's masterpieces like this that say that maybe man kind wasn't so bad.

[anabelachaves]

This is a Perfect piece.

[urbano277]

For me this and his elegie are 2 of the most beautiful pieces ever written. Its like a storm of feelings that no one can be indiferent.

This is pure awesomeness!!!! Long live Rach in our hearts

[hello152984]

this inspires me as a clarinet player

[freeqwerqwer]

seldom does the playing of an orchestra turns my head but this orchestra plays with stunning beauty. I wonder what orchestra this is....

[taniacello87]

@freeqwerqwer

BBCSO and Sir Andrew Davis :)

[Sonolumino8939]

It is beyond us, and for that, we are grateful. The end, and the beginning.

[daughterofjack]

Someone else here commented on the transtion of the flute to the clarinet and I have to agree.... I couldn't find the post. This is truly my favorite part of the whole concerto and the movements all put together. I had the pleasure of watching it live with Andre Watts with my father years before his dymensia took him away from me. I hope one day to see this masterpiece of a musician play before my eyes.

[iMacxXuserXx485]

Man this is beautiful. Tears start coming at 0:31

[GospelPerverter]

Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto must surely be one of THE most beautiful piano concertos in the world - especially this movement, as it birthed Eric Carmen's "All by Myself", at song which became a great sensation almost all over the world and left some purists reeling. Personally, I thought it was a magnificent tribute, if you want to call it that - in my humble opinion. :-)

[cives]

@GospelPerverter The only drawback is that Eric Carmen did not conceive it as a tribute. He just copied it and denied that it was a copy, but finally had to admit it (it is obvious from the very first second of the song till the last moment of it, so denying that he copied it is like taking us all for stupid...).

[GospelPerverter]

@cives Hello,

You are quite right, Eric Carmen did NOT intend it to be a tribute at all. In fact he thought Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto was in the public domain, which it wasn't. He had to make reparations with the Rachmaninov Estate once it was discovered he had pawned this movement for his song.

A close friend of mine has recently made a video on this story. I will make sure she sends it to you.

May God bless you in all you do.

The Team at GospelPerverter.

[pkj191067]

The best piece of classical music ever written - so much emotion and feeling. Recently came number 1 in Classic FM's Ultimate Hall of Fame and this performance shows why. Superb playing all round... just great

[verbatim945]

All by myself!

[MattBushy1983]

so sad

[fagelsinnet]

This is amazingly beautiful! Actually it brings tears to my eyes. The 6 people who clicked thumbs down must be heartless.

[dedbusted]

Rachmaninoff obviously liked Tchaikovsky's Sym. No.5 2nd movement 

[cives]

@dedbusted Indeed Rachmaninov met Tchaikovsky personally, and this last one praised the young Rachmaninov as a very talented and gifted musician, but I guess that you should relisten again both works.

[dedbusted]

@cives Yes.  I know both works very well. And can hear some similarity.

[lilytoka]

Rachmaninoff ' melodies are so gorgeous! Wonderful and very sincere music with so much passion and emotion!i It comes from the heart and goes to heart ...

[sarantiss]

Dude, it's Eraserhead. Sweet.

[parkxi]

I simply wonder how it must feel to play this beautiful concerto with a wonderful orchestra and conductor..Must be bliss.

[aiaiyayaa]

beautiful.. i can't stop listening to this..

[jimbob1965uk]

Something makes me want to cry out 'ALL BY MYSELF'. Eric Carmen, you rip off merchant!

[zhangshinyi]

this is a somewhat off-topic comment in regards to kissin's greatness and all, but after the first movement, i loved how no one applauded. i understand that that should be expected, but i've been to so many concerts at carnegie hall and lincoln center where people clap like there's no tomorrow... so this is oddly refreshing :) ah, what it must be like to live in europe....

[ooplex]

@zhangshinyi Oh, America haha. In fourth grade I went on a school field trip to the Kennedy Center (I forget what piece was performed...) and my whole class clapped at the wrong time. We thought everyone else was rude and unappreciative!

[sirquant17]

meravigliosa, commovente, travolgente.

[lapmarty]

finally a tempi right for this piece....who is so much play faster these day....its so horrible when it is play fast!

[Eoneryn]

i~m crying

[pianoairlines]

i'm fairly sure that there is not ONE person who doesn't want to learn the part at 4:20

[imrepohl]

All by myself, don't wanna be all by myself...

[idontdoprada]

@imrepohl Glad someone else spotted it hahahaha ! I was playing this in my orchestra and I entered into bridget jones transition

[mkang85]

The saddest thing about the end of the universe is that this piece will never be heard again.

[snaybird1000]

@mkang85 It exists outside of space-time. 

[idontdoprada]

@mkang85 Such a beautiful comment !

[MrGuillenreyes]

@mkang85 eso es verdad, y una cuel realidad

[MrGuillenreyes]

@mkang85 eso es verdad, y una cruel realidad

[TheGroovestock]

@mkang85 You're wrong.

This music sounds right now on the universe 'cause the sound has the property to traslate. It's given by the armonichs phenomena...

Everything will last forever.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@mkang85 you could choice a better one

[marleyfan008]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Shut up. This song is phenomenal.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@marleyfan008 is not a song you dumbass

[marleyfan008]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Its not a combination of musical instruments playing simultaneosly?

[mtv565]

@marleyfan008 In classical music, unless it is sang by a vocalist (singer), it is not a song. You can call a classical instrumental music as "a piece". IE: this piece of music, or this movement.

[sioncruel]

those people who put thumb down to this must have been talking about the video quality. How; otherwise?

[thepianolovingman]

@sioncruel completely agree. you have great taste in music :)

[BooeyHogue]

This might be my favorite music work of all time. Brought me to tears a few times.

[THEMACK85]

He looks like Ferris Bueller! ..I'm sorry, but I just had to say it;)

[istickyricei]

@THEMACK85 OR tom hanks

[clayludicrous]

@istickyricei Lol !!! I gotta agree.... TOM HANKS !!!! Lol !! I thought he looked familiar, then I read your comment!! lmao !! On the serious side, I agree  that this is the most beautiful music in the whole world!!

[cives]

@THEMACK85 Who is Ferris Bueller? Evgeny Kissin is internationally well known, so I guess that you should rather say that your Ferris Bueller looks like Evgeny Kissin.

[RabidGaming]

beautiful

[Heero545]

This movement makes me imagine being lost in a forest during the winter while it snows all around me.

Just beautiful.

[snobordinJACboi15]

@Heero545

I'd be scared out of my mind if I was lost in a forest while it was snowing, but that's just me.

Anyways, most beautiful piece written for piano, played elegantly by Kissin.

[ctregaskes]

I thought the same thing on "all by myself" 15 years ago when I first heard this. Most beautiful song ever written. My understanding this was the first piece Rachmaninoff wrote after his bout with depression. So much triumph in it.

[vincekoff]

This reminds me of that song " all by my self"...lack of imagination. rach is the best, better then chopin

[Triviumisi]

@vincekoff igudesman and joo

[tdennison22]

By far the most beautiful song Rachmaninoff ever wrote, maybe the most beautiful ever written. I'm convinced the piece wasn't written by man's hand alone. It's the last song I played for my son the morning he passed away in the hospital from a heart condition. Simply divine.

[dvdvilla91]

@tdennison22 song?

[marcphilos]

@tdennison22 What an extremely touching comment.