Astor Piazzolla tuvo un maestro en Nueva York cuando niño ,llamado Bela Wilda, que había sido alumno de Rachmaninoff. Creo que fue su primer maestro formal. Me parece que es posible que se haya transmitido la enorme capacidad melódica del maestro ruso a las hermosas melodías de Piazzolla. Hace mucho que tengo una grabación de esta sinfonía por Previn y me emociona siempre que la escucho.Desde Buenos Aires, felicitaciones.
Thank you mr rachmaninoff for such beautiful music, it made me cry. And thank you mr previn and the NHK symphony who played this as it derseved to be heard, mr rachmaninoff would have been proud.
I love Rachmoninoff's piano pieces, I am a pianist and have studied them, yet never heard any of his symphonies. So I came to listen and see how they were... well, I am getting chills and tears are in my eyes! Love you, Sergei!
I have just heard this live in Toronto played by the TSO-and then opened my computer to replayed on U tube-just simply breathtaking-the horns and clarinette are simply great-what a wonder that someone could compose such a piece of art.
Nobody should NOT "like" this movement. This type of writting in music creates the mental sedation needed to experience complete nostalgia that composers felt and experienced when writting. This is truly God-sent.
Beautiful artistry by these very fine Japanese musicians.... pouring their heart and soul into their art, with a passion and understanding that is universal. A moving gift... Thank you....
Sent this video to Lee .... this was her response:
"Absolutely glorious. It speaks to the cells of your body and puts music to their ability to sync with each other to fulfill their purpose .... I will agree with you - thank God for Rachmaninoff!!!"
I happened to listen to Eric Carmen's Never Gonna Fall in Love Again just before catching this performance. At 3:18 the similarity is absolutely certain. Eric's piano is substituted with the first violins.
I don't see this piece of information in the first few pages of posts, so I'll remind readers that Eric Carmen's song "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is richly based on this Rachmaninvov symphony. Carmen is pure genius. He also has said "All By Myself" has parallels to Rach's 2nd pianto concerto.
@watutman I'm sure you already know, but Previn's 1970s RCA recordings of both the short and the full versions of the symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Jack Brymer on solo clarinet, are definitive and should be heard to be believed. This is mush and the NHK players don't seem to 'get it'.
I feel sorry for all those people in history who died before this piece was written. For their sake, I hope you're able to listen to future music in the afterlife.
I must say that even though Rach is one of my favourites, I never could quite bring myself to like the 2nd symphony. It really has gorgeous passages, and the Scherzo as a whole is excellent, but somehow all in all it's just too sprawling, schmaltzy and overlong by half an hour.
@Astron278 have you heard Svetlanov's recording? (available right here on youtube i believe). he probably has the greatest understanding of the piece i've ever heard, so listening to his reading might help you see some structure. pure russian soul.
Previn brings out elements sloughed off by other conductors. He allows elements of
of sections that are usually not audible. He adds texture and edge to all his interpertations. He is my favorite condutor of all time. He will take the time,
not rushing through sectiions. Sometimes its like hearing a Rachmanivov movement for the first time. He is a nuanced poet of music and a genuis.
It's sad that the accesible beauty of Rachmaninoff's music has made so many music snobs (yes snobs) treat him as a second rate composer. I like Webern, Schoenberg, Steve Reich but I agree with @vegatrev - Rachmaninoff's music "has enriched my life beyond imagination". I first heard this symphony 50 years ago and it still touches my heart. It is wonderful music on all levels.
@keybawd, I couldn't have said it better. Not only is he treated badly by the critics for writing beautiful music, but also for not being an ethnic German or Austrian. There's this vicious idea floating around in the classical music world that the Germanic peoples are infinitely better than the rest of us at all things music-related. This idea is the direct result of the nationalistic German and Austrian musicologists of the 19th century.
@keybawd, don't get me wrong: there's wonderful German and Austrian music. We have had the names of the great Germanic composers drilled into our skulls during our years at conservatory. But we must realize that musical genius does not belong to any one ethnic group. Music is universal, and musical genius is found in every ethnic group at every period of time.
@keybawd, what distinguishes the classical music world as the only sphere of human activity which still embraces the idea of Aryan Supremacy is that most of the conservatory professors I have spoken with not only think the Germanic composers, as a group, are infinitely superior to all others, but that this is because the Germanic people are inherently infinitely superior at all things music-related. It's a truly vicious ideology, and one that needs to be destroyed as soon as possible.
@keybawd, if you think I sound crazy, it's only because the professors and music snobs I have come into contact with are crazed with their supremacy theories and their bigotry. What is furthermore incredible is that such conservatory programs should consider themselves politically and socially liberal, tolerant and open-minded, and then condemn all non-Germanic composers to comparative irrelevance, as well as, of course, all non-Western music.
Not being totally familiar with this genre of music, but a fan nonetheless!, it's somewhat odd that you hear familiar undertones from this piece that is used in Barbra Streisands "Evergreen". Could it be possible that the arranger for her music could be or have been a Rachmaninov fan?
I must say that the clarinet isn't one of my favorite instruments, however, the clarinet solo at the beginning... woww, no words... is simply perfect.
To me, this is "the crown of his life's achievements," one of the most moving pieces of love music ever written, and, with Delius's "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" and a tiny handful of other works, representative of musical late- to post-Romanticism at its very finest.
To me, this is "the crown of his life's achievements," one of the most moving pieces of love music ever written, and, with Delius's "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" and a tiny handful of other works, representative of musical late- and post-Romanticism at its very finest.
@HerrProfessorDoktor Andre Previn has a unique way of bringing out the romantic tenderness in Rachmaninov Symphonies. I can recall the atmosphere of the sessions for RCA in Walthamstow back in the 70s. I also recall Sir Adrian Boult warning Andre that his deportment on the rostrum would lead to back problems in later life. Sad to say Boult was right. But Andre can still work his magic on bands in this music.
this is such a beautiful Symphony... I just watched on BBC the life of Sergei Rachmaninov and I'm so touched by it.I think his music is not totally classic, it's quite revolutionary that's why not alot of people do not accept it . Thanks to him, this one has been quite an inspiration to alot of modern composers, I think I heard this alot of times in Animes. Hahahaha!
Just because it is an Asian orchestra, it's does not mean substandard.MANY musicians in NHk symphony are European and American trained and are top musicians in their own right. Sure, Japan had late start in Western music, but it's incredible how much they caught up. If they were mediocre, people like Ashkenazy (who, by the way, was the commissioned conductor of NHK) or Previn or other great conductors would not bother conducting them.
Just because it is an Asian orchestra, it's does not mean substandard.MANY musicians in NHk symphony are European and American trained and are top musicians in their own right. Sure, Japan had late start in Western music, but it's incredible how much they caught up. If they were mediocre, people like Ashkenazy (who, by the way, was the commissioned conductor of NHK) or Previn or other great conductors would not bother conducting them.
Rachmaninoff is the greatest composer who ever lived. In every bar of his music is direction, purpose, motion, and their final sum: emotion. He may never have identified it in words, but he discovered a new principle of music composition which unlocked an unlimited potential for beauty. He was not the end of Romanticism, but its true beginning.
@HotSo0P, I completely agree with you. He was certainly one of the very best...most definitely leagues ahead of Beethoven and Mozart, and on par with Bach, Hildegard von Bingen, Tchaikovsky, Rameau, Holst, Chopin, and the other truly great composers.
@HotSo0P, I especially think Rachmaninov's piano music and concertos are truly great. His 2nd, 3rd, and 4th piano concertos are some of the finest pieces ever written. They are equal to the greatest works of Bach and Chopin, really something that has not been equalled to my knowledge. And then his preludes and etudes-tableaux...yes, Rachmaninov is criminally underrated simply because he isn't German or Austrian. This pro-German bias has overtaken the classical music world, sadly.
@HotSo0P, I would argue that Rachmaninov, rather being the end or the beginning of Romanticism, is it's peak, it's ultimate expression. Rachmaninov was the pure embodiment of Romanticism just as Mozart was the pure embodiment of Classicism. Rachmaninov may have lived toward the end of the Romantic period, but his music shows that he was the essence of Romanticism, not its end, as you say.
What a great performance, puts me at flight level 380 on the 747-400ER over the South Pacific Ocean, going to Sydney from LAX and seeing the beauty of the cloud formations and the endless ocean below on a long haul flight. Thanks for sharing.
last year, my marching band show was based upon this entire symphony, the first time we played the hit of the ballad, i stopped playing, it was so beautiful, and so moving, it gave me chills everytime
Touchingly beautiful music conducted by one of the great musical geniuses of our time, a great conductor, classical pianist, composer, and jazz musician.
Compared to the recording Prévin (Priwin) did with the London Symphony, this feels so terribly pedestrian, sad to say!! It's such a pity - this piece is so, so MIRACULOUS!!! Most certainly it's one of my very favourite symphonic movements. [Was he perhaps criticised as being too 'sentimental' for what he did in that recording?? If so, it's an even worse pity given how it seems he took it to heart...]
In my opinion, this is the single most beautiful piece of music. It brings me additional joy to see all of your comments and to know that others share in the same experience when listening to this music.
@DaJugglingFool I feel the same way. Nobody in my real life understands what music like this means to me. They tease me good naturedly for my taste in music but it is so nice to read these comments and know that there are people who feel like I do out there somewhere.
I Previn's autobiography. He dismisses a fantastic gem of opening credit music for "Bad Day at Black Rock." He standards are very, very high. But it was also a great piece of standalone romantic/dissonant music. This is a great piece he is conducting. oooh! How did Andre get older? I haven't! :)
Unfortunately, there is very little on the life of the composer. But a few years ago I bought an old bio by Sergei Bertensson & Jay Leyda. It is worth reading. "Sergei Rachmaninoff: I Lifetime in Music."
Many thanks to imoimo for the upload, and praise to to the superb NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Certainly no one captured the spirit of the best of Russia than Sergei Rachmaninoff.
This is probably the most beautiful movement in any symphony ever composed. Rachmaninoff had a unique gift of being able to write heart wrenchingly beautiful melodies and orchestrate them perfectly. ahh the romantic period at it's best.
Almost everything Rachmaninov has composed has a quality beyond compare. The man was incredibly sensitive to variances in music ... we are fortunate that he was around to touch our lives.
Previn hits the bullseye with this interpretation. Just the right tempo and lushness to make this about the most romantic music ever written---after Rach's 2nd piano Concerto, 2nd movement, that is.
@vegatrev I completely understand, this composer has written some of the most powerful, intense music, and when I feel the world is a crappy place and need refuge, I often listen to a lot of his music to lift up my spirits.
Seal yourself with holy spirit! Be holy, Root out your eyes for causing you to watch violence and pornography, cut away your sexual organs that lead you to adultery, sodomy, fornication, masturbation etc. Drink muriatic acid for smoking, abusing alcohol and drugs. Slit your throat for bowing to idols such as flag and crucifix. Do not attend church meetings, end Christendoom, restore Christian unity [Christianity], no church, no division!
Klauskristiannugraha hits on something. This song could be considered the best composition. The best composition, so long as compositions are beheld by individuals with rich needs, individual needs that could, every now and then, grasp at Rach's 2nd and call it perfect for the occasion.
I think Andre Previn is one of the best conductors of this work. Eugene Ormandy and the Phialdelphia Orchestra also played this superbly. When it is played by the BSO or any other orchestra in Massachusetts I always make a point to hear it as it is one of my favourite symphonies. I love the varying and interesting harmonies. It is like a vision of heaven or the promised land.
My heart aches! My God, Rachmaninov was the embodiment of Heaven on Earth! How a man could create such a soul stirring gem, not without Divine intervention. He left us with nothing less than greatness. Bless him!
Symphonic music like this often requires cinematic context It ,in fact, invokes memory and memory is cinematic. Thank God there are people still making this music for the memories of our own lives.
I was fortunate enough to play this piece at my All State Orchestra Festival in CT in 2008... i had never heard of this piece nor the composer... but when we started playing it together as a full symphonic orchestra for the first time, my heart melted... never in my life had I enjoyed playing my violin as i had during this movement of His 2nd symphony.. just the whole build up until the climax is enough to melt the hardest of hearts. ill never forget this movement
It was the case for me as well. I had pleasure to play it too. Although it was hard work (so many notes for violins in 2nd and 4th movement!) but very satisfying. I was always getting shivers and goose bums no matter how often we had to reherse it. At the end of the concert I was literary pouring tears out and I could not stop them at any point and I belive some people at the audience cried too :)
That song and "All by myself" by Eric Carmen (he recalled the melody when he studied violin with his aunt who played for the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra)
The famous adagio movement gave rise to a popular song several years that lifted the melody, although I cannot recall the name of the song (something about I'm never gonna love again). Mr. Previn has come a long way since he directed the MGM orchestra for the film, "Gigi" for which he won the Academy Award fifty years ago, following in his father's footsteps. He is the last of the Twentieth Century's great musical giants.
Kudos to Maestro Previn and the NHK Symphony Orchestra for the superb performance of this romantic masterpiece. It also brings back sweet memories of Previn's conducting of this symphony at the Hollywood Bowl under the stars which I attended in the summer of 1965. Unfortunately, he was panned by the music critics on that occasion.
THe version Andre Previn recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra back in the 1970s won award with the Gramophone magazine. It is still available. Despite his age, the passion of this work stays.
I like this piece.
yasuichitoku2 6 days ago
this is what love sounds like
RyceKake95 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Such a masterpiece!
kissatom23 3 weeks ago
Astor Piazzolla tuvo un maestro en Nueva York cuando niño ,llamado Bela Wilda, que había sido alumno de Rachmaninoff. Creo que fue su primer maestro formal. Me parece que es posible que se haya transmitido la enorme capacidad melódica del maestro ruso a las hermosas melodías de Piazzolla. Hace mucho que tengo una grabación de esta sinfonía por Previn y me emociona siempre que la escucho.Desde Buenos Aires, felicitaciones.
Clauderavel 4 weeks ago in playlist Classical
this!This is true romanticism!!!
THEMGOROTH75 1 month ago 2
Thank you mr rachmaninoff for such beautiful music, it made me cry. And thank you mr previn and the NHK symphony who played this as it derseved to be heard, mr rachmaninoff would have been proud.
msmaplecan 1 month ago
Ineffably beautiful. Evokes feeling I thought dead in me.
PacRimJim 1 month ago 2
I dont see how people could have crtiqued rachmaninovs music so harshly its simply beautiful
MrLyons77 1 month ago
Every movement ... f***ing beautiful!
Soloiszt 2 months ago
Goosebumps... ^-^
I love Rachmoninoff's piano pieces, I am a pianist and have studied them, yet never heard any of his symphonies. So I came to listen and see how they were... well, I am getting chills and tears are in my eyes! Love you, Sergei!
JWrightA2Z 2 months ago
Amo escuchar esta pieza...
cascadademocos 2 months ago
Listening to this is one of the most beautiful moments of a lifetime.
0011486 2 months ago
I have just heard this live in Toronto played by the TSO-and then opened my computer to replayed on U tube-just simply breathtaking-the horns and clarinette are simply great-what a wonder that someone could compose such a piece of art.
yrpher1 3 months ago
Thank you Maestro Previn and the NHK Orchestra for this heartfelt rendition of one of the greatest compositions ever written.
That one single human being can create such music leaves me dumbfounded.
Thank you Sergei Rachmaninov - you have touched my life
Forkygolach1 3 months ago
Unbelievably beautiful piece of music,music that is beyond genius.
philmixer 3 months ago
BTW, listen to the main theme of "Sleeping With the Enemy". I think listeners who like this Rachmoninov piece will hear the same licks.
jaymeskirksey 4 months ago
Nobody should NOT "like" this movement. This type of writting in music creates the mental sedation needed to experience complete nostalgia that composers felt and experienced when writting. This is truly God-sent.
jaymeskirksey 4 months ago
My freshman year we played this during our ballad during marching band, I love this piece!
Haeinscute 4 months ago
This is terribly difficult. Bravo!
ACVB2006 5 months ago
I've always had a hard time playing this solo at auditions or performances. because I always get choked up.
superiorbandgeek 5 months ago 3
Beautiful artistry by these very fine Japanese musicians.... pouring their heart and soul into their art, with a passion and understanding that is universal. A moving gift... Thank you....
Jude42 5 months ago
so smooth...
vicmatic12 5 months ago
かっこええ。
本物や。
すげえ。
ITderusu 5 months ago
Sent this video to Lee .... this was her response:
"Absolutely glorious. It speaks to the cells of your body and puts music to their ability to sync with each other to fulfill their purpose .... I will agree with you - thank God for Rachmaninoff!!!"
charlesrayburn 5 months ago
one of the most touching melodies ever written. great conductor too. thanks for posting
shirleyslrocks 5 months ago
I happened to listen to Eric Carmen's Never Gonna Fall in Love Again just before catching this performance. At 3:18 the similarity is absolutely certain. Eric's piano is substituted with the first violins.
SLPgoogle 6 months ago
I don't see this piece of information in the first few pages of posts, so I'll remind readers that Eric Carmen's song "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is richly based on this Rachmaninvov symphony. Carmen is pure genius. He also has said "All By Myself" has parallels to Rach's 2nd pianto concerto.
minnabean33 6 months ago
@minnabean33 True, "All by myself" is based on the slow movement of the 2nd piano concerto. It is very clear if you try listening to it
LongMozart 6 months ago
thanks a lot,mr rachmaninof!!!
interista100 7 months ago 10
I love this movement!!!!
jboy101ish 7 months ago
Beautiful
Just beautiful
moomoo8100 7 months ago
Sorry, but the clarinetist falters at 1:07 - ruins it for me
watutman 7 months ago
@watutman I'm sure you already know, but Previn's 1970s RCA recordings of both the short and the full versions of the symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Jack Brymer on solo clarinet, are definitive and should be heard to be believed. This is mush and the NHK players don't seem to 'get it'.
TheMarkXIV 6 months ago
I feel sorry for all those people in history who died before this piece was written. For their sake, I hope you're able to listen to future music in the afterlife.
d517q7 7 months ago
I must say that even though Rach is one of my favourites, I never could quite bring myself to like the 2nd symphony. It really has gorgeous passages, and the Scherzo as a whole is excellent, but somehow all in all it's just too sprawling, schmaltzy and overlong by half an hour.
Astron278 7 months ago
@Astron278 have you heard Svetlanov's recording? (available right here on youtube i believe). he probably has the greatest understanding of the piece i've ever heard, so listening to his reading might help you see some structure. pure russian soul.
fledgehog 7 months ago
Perfection
shandeez1 7 months ago
This is amazing and nowadays music is a joke compared to this
olopcall 8 months ago 2
6 deaf people, that's all
albertotablero 8 months ago
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT JUSTIN BEIBER!
ITS ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC
paupauteama 8 months ago
Previn brings out elements sloughed off by other conductors. He allows elements of
of sections that are usually not audible. He adds texture and edge to all his interpertations. He is my favorite condutor of all time. He will take the time,
not rushing through sectiions. Sometimes its like hearing a Rachmanivov movement for the first time. He is a nuanced poet of music and a genuis.
Gene575 8 months ago
Howard Roark, Architect.
TrondheimTraceurs 8 months ago
Mein Gott, ich fühle mich wie zu weinen. Es ist so schön!
singchef1965 9 months ago
the 6 dislikes were from justin bieber making 6 accounts and disliking this video
MeteorArmageddon 9 months ago
I fucking like to this!!
Michu01 9 months ago
It's sad that the accesible beauty of Rachmaninoff's music has made so many music snobs (yes snobs) treat him as a second rate composer. I like Webern, Schoenberg, Steve Reich but I agree with @vegatrev - Rachmaninoff's music "has enriched my life beyond imagination". I first heard this symphony 50 years ago and it still touches my heart. It is wonderful music on all levels.
keybawd 9 months ago 27
@keybawd, I couldn't have said it better. Not only is he treated badly by the critics for writing beautiful music, but also for not being an ethnic German or Austrian. There's this vicious idea floating around in the classical music world that the Germanic peoples are infinitely better than the rest of us at all things music-related. This idea is the direct result of the nationalistic German and Austrian musicologists of the 19th century.
KhagarBalugrak 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sergey Rachmaninov
@keybawd, don't get me wrong: there's wonderful German and Austrian music. We have had the names of the great Germanic composers drilled into our skulls during our years at conservatory. But we must realize that musical genius does not belong to any one ethnic group. Music is universal, and musical genius is found in every ethnic group at every period of time.
KhagarBalugrak 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sergey Rachmaninov
@keybawd, what distinguishes the classical music world as the only sphere of human activity which still embraces the idea of Aryan Supremacy is that most of the conservatory professors I have spoken with not only think the Germanic composers, as a group, are infinitely superior to all others, but that this is because the Germanic people are inherently infinitely superior at all things music-related. It's a truly vicious ideology, and one that needs to be destroyed as soon as possible.
KhagarBalugrak 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sergey Rachmaninov
@keybawd, if you think I sound crazy, it's only because the professors and music snobs I have come into contact with are crazed with their supremacy theories and their bigotry. What is furthermore incredible is that such conservatory programs should consider themselves politically and socially liberal, tolerant and open-minded, and then condemn all non-Germanic composers to comparative irrelevance, as well as, of course, all non-Western music.
KhagarBalugrak 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sergey Rachmaninov
@keybawd
Just check out Grove for yourself! You'll see how snobby the description on Rachmaninov is ;( It's sad.
Symmetryful 2 months ago
@keybawd Who treats Rachmaninoff as a 2nd rate composer?
rachlisztchopin 2 months ago
@keybawd I can't believe there are actually people like that. This music is near unparalleled in its sheer beauty.
KingCrimson776 2 weeks ago
Romantic. Sublime. Moving. Utterly beautiful.
t0astpenguin 9 months ago 3
Not being totally familiar with this genre of music, but a fan nonetheless!, it's somewhat odd that you hear familiar undertones from this piece that is used in Barbra Streisands "Evergreen". Could it be possible that the arranger for her music could be or have been a Rachmaninov fan?
tsblack01 9 months ago
8.33-8.50 brings me to tears. Astonishing piece of music..
boardboy1914 10 months ago
Is there a DVD for this anywhere? I'm absolutely obsessed with this recording.
JGieseke 10 months ago
How could this beautiful piece be NOT liked??? It absolutely sends the senses beyond.......
brenaburchable 10 months ago
NHK Symphony Orchestra is super!
sbrantdon 10 months ago 2
Just beautiful... all movement.
Buiii... <3
I must say that the clarinet isn't one of my favorite instruments, however, the clarinet solo at the beginning... woww, no words... is simply perfect.
Luii86 10 months ago 2
@MusicWonderz @jayster8496 ERO ftw! <3
MewxRetasu 10 months ago
Really interesting music, Very nice :-)
ALWARRIOR1000 10 months ago
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To me, this is "the crown of his life's achievements," one of the most moving pieces of love music ever written, and, with Delius's "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" and a tiny handful of other works, representative of musical late- to post-Romanticism at its very finest.
HerrProfessorDoktor 10 months ago
To me, this is "the crown of his life's achievements," one of the most moving pieces of love music ever written, and, with Delius's "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" and a tiny handful of other works, representative of musical late- and post-Romanticism at its very finest.
HerrProfessorDoktor 10 months ago 3
@HerrProfessorDoktor Andre Previn has a unique way of bringing out the romantic tenderness in Rachmaninov Symphonies. I can recall the atmosphere of the sessions for RCA in Walthamstow back in the 70s. I also recall Sir Adrian Boult warning Andre that his deportment on the rostrum would lead to back problems in later life. Sad to say Boult was right. But Andre can still work his magic on bands in this music.
A60stock 10 months ago
@MusicWonderz Oh cool, funny we both watching the same video!
jayster8496 11 months ago
@jayster8496 wow nice :) and beautiful performance..
amanesayuri 11 months ago
I just played this yesterday on English horn. I absolutely love it! The solos are SO beautiful. A real joy to play!
jayster8496 11 months ago
@jayster8496 ERO?
MusicWonderz 11 months ago
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@MusicWonderz Yeah, were you there? What did you play?
jayster8496 11 months ago
@MusicWonderz Yeah, were you there? What did you play?
jayster8496 11 months ago
@jayster8496 Clarinet, sat right behind you
MusicWonderz 11 months ago
It makes me weep
dangemcgrew 11 months ago
Wow, that clarinet solo just makes me melt. Absolutely beautiful. If I can play my clarinet even half as beautifully, I'd be happy. Wow.
theblueTACO 11 months ago
What an outstandingly beautiful piece of music
stepenwolf7 11 months ago
this is such a beautiful Symphony... I just watched on BBC the life of Sergei Rachmaninov and I'm so touched by it.I think his music is not totally classic, it's quite revolutionary that's why not alot of people do not accept it . Thanks to him, this one has been quite an inspiration to alot of modern composers, I think I heard this alot of times in Animes. Hahahaha!
Shadelassy 11 months ago
Bravo, Mr. Previn - Hauntingly beautiful.
SPACETIMEBEAUTY 11 months ago
Fab-U-lous : fabulous artist/s; fabulous music; fabulous construction!
urumandi 1 year ago
I love how nice people have become on youtube recently. Good music unites us all! Beautiful piece.
ZF1000 1 year ago 2
So romantic. So beautiful. The music tranports one to such a lovely place.
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Just because it is an Asian orchestra, it's does not mean substandard.MANY musicians in NHk symphony are European and American trained and are top musicians in their own right. Sure, Japan had late start in Western music, but it's incredible how much they caught up. If they were mediocre, people like Ashkenazy (who, by the way, was the commissioned conductor of NHK) or Previn or other great conductors would not bother conducting them.
omurodog 1 year ago
Just because it is an Asian orchestra, it's does not mean substandard.MANY musicians in NHk symphony are European and American trained and are top musicians in their own right. Sure, Japan had late start in Western music, but it's incredible how much they caught up. If they were mediocre, people like Ashkenazy (who, by the way, was the commissioned conductor of NHK) or Previn or other great conductors would not bother conducting them.
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Great Conductor....but asian orchestra...a pity!
strad1772 1 year ago
@strad1772 Yes wasn't it just awful. :-ß (sarcasm)
AreaQNH870 1 year ago
@strad1772 ????????????? Some of todays greatest musicians are Asians!
shlomzion 11 months ago 3
@shlomzion Yes! Yourself said the truth: MUSICIANS...but not Artist !
ozowei 11 months ago
ZOMG! CLARINET SOLO!!!
Clarinerd617 1 year ago 3
Rachmaninoff is the greatest composer who ever lived. In every bar of his music is direction, purpose, motion, and their final sum: emotion. He may never have identified it in words, but he discovered a new principle of music composition which unlocked an unlimited potential for beauty. He was not the end of Romanticism, but its true beginning.
HotSo0P 1 year ago 27
@HotSo0P, I completely agree with you. He was certainly one of the very best...most definitely leagues ahead of Beethoven and Mozart, and on par with Bach, Hildegard von Bingen, Tchaikovsky, Rameau, Holst, Chopin, and the other truly great composers.
KhagarBalugrak 5 months ago
@HotSo0P, I especially think Rachmaninov's piano music and concertos are truly great. His 2nd, 3rd, and 4th piano concertos are some of the finest pieces ever written. They are equal to the greatest works of Bach and Chopin, really something that has not been equalled to my knowledge. And then his preludes and etudes-tableaux...yes, Rachmaninov is criminally underrated simply because he isn't German or Austrian. This pro-German bias has overtaken the classical music world, sadly.
KhagarBalugrak 5 months ago
@HotSo0P, I would argue that Rachmaninov, rather being the end or the beginning of Romanticism, is it's peak, it's ultimate expression. Rachmaninov was the pure embodiment of Romanticism just as Mozart was the pure embodiment of Classicism. Rachmaninov may have lived toward the end of the Romantic period, but his music shows that he was the essence of Romanticism, not its end, as you say.
KhagarBalugrak 5 months ago
6:30 gives me the chills time and again.
fellienorman 1 year ago 4
Herbert von Karajan the best conducter Period.....
Previn can't compare,.
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murnien 1 year ago
what a dream.
sushishoppe123 1 year ago
Glorious. Why does a German-American jazz pianist understand Rachmaninov so well? Is it an exile thing?
TPOC
menstonite 1 year ago
what about Previn???? An excellent conductor...a genius!!!!
angelchamate 1 year ago
I LOVE RACHMANINOV...he's a genius...i feel something in my very soul when i'm listening his compositions....it's so great filling
tylerenglish100 1 year ago
@tylerenglish100 i feel smooth too : ' )
hirammstein 1 year ago
Rachmaninov is a magician...love his compositions so so hard...i feel something very pleasent in my heart while listening his compositions...
tylerenglish100 1 year ago
What a great performance, puts me at flight level 380 on the 747-400ER over the South Pacific Ocean, going to Sydney from LAX and seeing the beauty of the cloud formations and the endless ocean below on a long haul flight. Thanks for sharing.
DansJets 1 year ago
I love Clarinet! beautifulllllllllll.....
Rchybn1987 1 year ago
last year, my marching band show was based upon this entire symphony, the first time we played the hit of the ballad, i stopped playing, it was so beautiful, and so moving, it gave me chills everytime
Joeasy88 1 year ago
I'm no musician, but this piece is "magic". I could listen to it over and over, very moving.
taller80 1 year ago 3
Adding words to this sublime music is akin to adding a moustache to the Mona Lisa. The emotional message is ineffable; it is NOT a song.
clarinet1 1 year ago 6
OMG, no matter how many times I hear it, I feel like my heart will break asunder!
MrHicks091 1 year ago
@Thunderbolt1000T I mean anyone can write depressing lyrics, but it takes a genius like Rachmaninoff to write a piece like this.
istickyricei 1 year ago 4
Touchingly beautiful music conducted by one of the great musical geniuses of our time, a great conductor, classical pianist, composer, and jazz musician.
gmmrtn 1 year ago
Compared to the recording Prévin (Priwin) did with the London Symphony, this feels so terribly pedestrian, sad to say!! It's such a pity - this piece is so, so MIRACULOUS!!! Most certainly it's one of my very favourite symphonic movements. [Was he perhaps criticised as being too 'sentimental' for what he did in that recording?? If so, it's an even worse pity given how it seems he took it to heart...]
LJBSasha 1 year ago
Bravo.
buxter 1 year ago
Wow.. I've not been brought to tears for no reason by music in years.. this did it to me.
pvdanjr 1 year ago
There's a DVD or CD of this fantastic execution?
nicolamarasco 1 year ago
In my opinion, this is the single most beautiful piece of music. It brings me additional joy to see all of your comments and to know that others share in the same experience when listening to this music.
DaJugglingFool 1 year ago
@DaJugglingFool I feel the same way. Nobody in my real life understands what music like this means to me. They tease me good naturedly for my taste in music but it is so nice to read these comments and know that there are people who feel like I do out there somewhere.
Tashmere 1 year ago 5
I Previn's autobiography. He dismisses a fantastic gem of opening credit music for "Bad Day at Black Rock." He standards are very, very high. But it was also a great piece of standalone romantic/dissonant music. This is a great piece he is conducting. oooh! How did Andre get older? I haven't! :)
Harlan346 1 year ago
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Indeed! :)
Harlan346 1 year ago
Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin, my unforgettable favorite three :)
KaiRobin 1 year ago 3
this music is so powerful it reduces a fiftyfive year old man to tears everytime i hear it.
almeraman 1 year ago 16
bellissimo..
vico1600 1 year ago
Rachmaninoff is incredible.
luke55698 1 year ago
Unfortunately, there is very little on the life of the composer. But a few years ago I bought an old bio by Sergei Bertensson & Jay Leyda. It is worth reading. "Sergei Rachmaninoff: I Lifetime in Music."
Many thanks to imoimo for the upload, and praise to to the superb NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Certainly no one captured the spirit of the best of Russia than Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Amfortaz 1 year ago
@Amfortaz Certainly no one captured the spirit of the best of Russia than Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Hear hear !
aclearthinker 1 year ago
eric carmen aaalways uses rachmaninov's melodies, like all by myself
raskah1 1 year ago
I love this melody. Eric Carmen's Never Fall in Love Again has the same tune as this one.
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
O.M.G. I adore Andre Pevin && Rachmaninov .....
times goes by & we all age .. bless his heart
To me Rachmaninow ............IS Andre Previn!
I am so glad i have his earlier recordings on disc....
PineyWhitepine 1 year ago
very very very nice sound
violoncello9 1 year ago
This is probably the most beautiful movement in any symphony ever composed. Rachmaninoff had a unique gift of being able to write heart wrenchingly beautiful melodies and orchestrate them perfectly. ahh the romantic period at it's best.
matty4heather 1 year ago 3
It sways your body like the wind....
I also like Eric Carmen's Never Gonna Fall In Love Again since he based his melody on the main theme of the Symphony No. 2 Movement III.
Great!
bubwitmaingay 1 year ago
¡Todos los pelos de punta! Es increible las sensaciones que siento con esta pieza. Es de una belleza emocionante.
MsBaltimor 1 year ago
Almost everything Rachmaninov has composed has a quality beyond compare. The man was incredibly sensitive to variances in music ... we are fortunate that he was around to touch our lives.
Karen41872 1 year ago 5
Quelle merveilleuse interprétation!
C'est très émouvant.
valeriealmamarie 1 year ago 2
I have admired the work of Maestro Previn since the 1960s. He has never lost his touch. Here, he turns classical music into absolute Magic.
What great music - what a performance!
1400deadwood 1 year ago 2
Andre Previn has such a great interpretation of this movement
violiner9391 1 year ago 3
Its so romantic... ist the most romatic symphony piece ever written.
Sedanstotina 1 year ago 3
@Sedanstotina It makes your heart weep with quiet joy
dannywaboy 1 year ago 5
Oh yes it does.
Sedanstotina 1 year ago
Its the most romantic song I ever heard.
Sedanstotina 1 year ago
I didn't know that Rachmaninoff inspired all bye my self. It's a beautiful song.
ibeliveification 1 year ago 2
Previn hits the bullseye with this interpretation. Just the right tempo and lushness to make this about the most romantic music ever written---after Rach's 2nd piano Concerto, 2nd movement, that is.
JoeTownley 2 years ago 10
The music of Rachmaninov has enriched my life beyond imagination.
vegatrev 2 years ago 107
@vegatrev amen. me too
chutdigadut 1 year ago
@vegatrev I completely understand, this composer has written some of the most powerful, intense music, and when I feel the world is a crappy place and need refuge, I often listen to a lot of his music to lift up my spirits.
buffalocrotch 1 year ago 2
one of my favorite symphonic movements ever written... great performance
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conceil8 2 years ago
The first time i heard this sound, i realize that This song could be considered as the best compositition ever made
klauskristiannugraha 2 years ago 11
Klauskristiannugraha hits on something. This song could be considered the best composition. The best composition, so long as compositions are beheld by individuals with rich needs, individual needs that could, every now and then, grasp at Rach's 2nd and call it perfect for the occasion.
BrucknerMotet 1 year ago
Is the best version of all.
For me, of course!!!
LolaMoraPz 2 years ago 4
Such a touching Performance and the clarinet solo
frclarinette 2 years ago 7
for those who want a cd try previn's 1972 recording with the lso. remastered, beautiful sound and the recording that is still considered the best
scuunjieng 2 years ago 6
My favorite conductor playing my favavorite symphony by my favorite composer with some wonderful musicians. Bravo! Thanks for sharing.
yamaho5 2 years ago 7
I think Andre Previn is one of the best conductors of this work. Eugene Ormandy and the Phialdelphia Orchestra also played this superbly. When it is played by the BSO or any other orchestra in Massachusetts I always make a point to hear it as it is one of my favourite symphonies. I love the varying and interesting harmonies. It is like a vision of heaven or the promised land.
rsfpiano 2 years ago 4
My heart aches! My God, Rachmaninov was the embodiment of Heaven on Earth! How a man could create such a soul stirring gem, not without Divine intervention. He left us with nothing less than greatness. Bless him!
ru4fallenidol 2 years ago 7
Yes, tears in my eyes when I heard this movement. Remember my most beautiful time in my life.
schirockpotok 2 years ago 5
This is truly beautiful and transcendental.
Thank so much for sharing!!
sunnysunny1234567 2 years ago 2
Brilliant
MadMonsterBear 2 years ago 2
Symphonic music like this often requires cinematic context It ,in fact, invokes memory and memory is cinematic. Thank God there are people still making this music for the memories of our own lives.
stomique 2 years ago
I was fortunate enough to play this piece at my All State Orchestra Festival in CT in 2008... i had never heard of this piece nor the composer... but when we started playing it together as a full symphonic orchestra for the first time, my heart melted... never in my life had I enjoyed playing my violin as i had during this movement of His 2nd symphony.. just the whole build up until the climax is enough to melt the hardest of hearts. ill never forget this movement
backoswacko10 2 years ago 5
It was the case for me as well. I had pleasure to play it too. Although it was hard work (so many notes for violins in 2nd and 4th movement!) but very satisfying. I was always getting shivers and goose bums no matter how often we had to reherse it. At the end of the concert I was literary pouring tears out and I could not stop them at any point and I belive some people at the audience cried too :)
u05bd6 2 years ago
Is there a CD from this NHK symphony orchestra? It is so beautiful
SingHifi 2 years ago 4
Andre Previn ,s Hands are so eloquent and This music is so achingly beautiful,,,,
shela2 2 years ago
That song and "All by myself" by Eric Carmen (he recalled the melody when he studied violin with his aunt who played for the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra)
cinemabon 2 years ago
The famous adagio movement gave rise to a popular song several years that lifted the melody, although I cannot recall the name of the song (something about I'm never gonna love again). Mr. Previn has come a long way since he directed the MGM orchestra for the film, "Gigi" for which he won the Academy Award fifty years ago, following in his father's footsteps. He is the last of the Twentieth Century's great musical giants.
cinemabon 2 years ago
I believe it's "Never gonna fall in love again" by Eric Carmen~
richpark7 2 years ago
Now this is what I call music.
yamahaU3 2 years ago
Esto es como un pajaro azul...que nunca podré ver.
Valiente2007 2 years ago
chills down my spine! words cannot describe the beauty of it!
hayastanjan 2 years ago
appreciated.
moisesplaton 2 years ago
i have been looking everywhere for this melody, i heard it once and i knew it was of rachmanninoff but i couldnt find it...
the best piece of music ever written!! its so celestialand perfect.. romantic!!!!!!! gosh i love it
lisedaton 2 years ago 2
yea, a year ago, this piece wasnt on youtube and i was like WTF?! thank god people decided to put this on youtube.
Likeafoxow 2 years ago
Kudos to Maestro Previn and the NHK Symphony Orchestra for the superb performance of this romantic masterpiece. It also brings back sweet memories of Previn's conducting of this symphony at the Hollywood Bowl under the stars which I attended in the summer of 1965. Unfortunately, he was panned by the music critics on that occasion.
My heartfelt thanks to imoimo.
sko91841 2 years ago
THe version Andre Previn recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra back in the 1970s won award with the Gramophone magazine. It is still available. Despite his age, the passion of this work stays.
tarantellaonline 2 years ago
Love how the music seems to wander off on its own, which is the beauty of the piece
Lassokid 2 years ago