Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 (1939)

[Idjoq]

Brought here by "Shine". Watch the movie. :)

[tarish11]

Most wonderful music in the world!!!!!! Rachmaninov is the amazing and the greatest composer!!!

[hippie6996]

Rachy!!!!!

[forgottenbooks]

Re the cadenza: Rachmaninioff's may be fast, but Horowitz's 1943 recording is faster. (/watch?v=eG1SKAKRlrA&feature=­plcp&context=C3691670UDOEgsToP­DskKzgMb7BEF_GJUXR54c7o3V). Just putting it out there, in case anyone's interested.

[bgarri57]

Do I detect a little syncopation at around the 4:38 mark?

[mihneaurs]

@bgarri57 no you don't

[gogolplex74]

Rachmaninov plays Racmhaninov?

Rachmaninovception!

[CoolWJL]

Never fail to amaze me how Rachmaninov make any piece of music sound so easy and effortless#, even something as difficult as his 3rd concerto.

Read a quotation somewhere from a famous pianist, I can't remember who it was, but said something like "when you hear Horowitz play, it make you want to practice more, but when you hear Rachmaninov play, you feel like why even bother?"

[samlab0920]

@CoolWJL haha you are so right!

[TheRiskyBoxSpread]

no no he's interpreting it all wrong!

[leongatha6]

@TheRiskyBoxSpread yeah, what would he know about playing his own composition?

[Waddleduck64]

@TheRiskyBoxSpread People don't seem to get a joke now do they :P

[samlab0920]

@TheRiskyBoxSpread how could that be? he's playing his own creation. other pianists play it wrong, not him

[Kedzie100]

@samlab0920

Not necesserely. I think M. Pletnev plays Tchaikovsky's 'Seasons' much better than the composer himself ever could.

[samlab0920]

@Kedzie100 Oh well, Tchaikovsky wasn't known as a pianist, now was he? I don't think he was (I might be wrong though). Therefore I think it is rather normal that a professional concerto pianist could play a piano work better than the composer.

[Bret6464]

@samlab0920 Not in the case of Rachmaninoff - Rach is THE master!

[ttujc]

@TheRiskyBoxSpread Well played good sir, 10/10

[joshayes1]

truly beautiful, could listen to classical music all day and night

[Maramarrr1]

As I know it is the most difficult Concerto ever written!!!

[darkendless89]

Did you know that Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 is considered one of the three most difficult Concerto for Piano ever written in History? :D

(Sorry for bad English. xD)

[Jowaile]

@darkendless89 Oh so that's why it's one of the most played at the Elizabeth contest in belgium... but then do you know what are the two others?

[darkendless89]

@Jowaile

Yes!

Brahms' Piano concerto No. 2 and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2!

Now,I'm not a pianist so I can't judge well the difficult of this Concerti but..All I can say is that they are amazing!

[VerschureRoel]

i think i belong to the 0.01% young people that knows what music is all about

[vituvianparis]

@VerschureRoel

That is so pretentious

[JacobsteinIX]

@VerschureRoel why do so many people think that they are the only young people who enjoy classical music of any form. stop begging it.

[marketanarchist2011]

@VerschureRoel arrogant and naive

[Ryanlauph]

@VerschureRoel I started listening to Russian composers when I was 10... loved Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich etc. ever since :)

[EversonofDave]

@VerschureRoel hahaha

[Zoloe]

This is soooooo much better than that 1978 one......

[TobeHD]

fail

[uUUu314]

Not my favorite interpretation. . .  Just kidding its Rachmaninoff himself!

[paulhandcroft]

my preferite pianist

[kdog1842]

unreal.



[danielparra98]

@kdog1842 don't you hear the old microphone "shhhhhhhh"ing? of course it's real!

[GonzaGnR4ever]

@danielparra98 yes, looks like its real, too bad..

[BaroqueMusicOnly]

i have this on vinyl by boston symphony orchestra charles munch

[PsychoSuo9000]

why the hell is Jay Chou tagged LOL

[scientistpatrick]

@PsychoSuo9000 and Liberace too.

[MrKatajisto]

Philadelphia, my favorit! Rachmaninov, my love forever! Long live BR!

[Blackshitfuckturd]

nah I'm better

[LORDSANANDA64]

NO CUALQUIER PENDEJO PUEED TOCAR ESTO, NI LA BASURA DE PIANISTA QUE DICEN QUE ES ESTE TAL RAUL DI BLASIO, QUE APARTE ES UN VATO PESADISIMO, LO CONOCI EN 2 EVENTOS QUE ME TOCÓ CUIDAR SUS ENSAYOS Y PESIMO PARA TOCAR EL PIANO XD

[jdis]

how awesome is it that we have a recording of the maestro himself playing this amazing piece!

[whoisbbg]

@jdis Oh happy day! 

[THELASTDARKTEMPLAR]

esto es música, no sandeces como el reggaeton, justin bieber y demás males de nuestro tiempo, ciertamente progresamos en otras cosas pero en otras hemos perdido demasiado nivel

[YouriCarma]

Also hear Wibi Soerjadi - Rachmaninov 2 & 3 - Allegro Ma Non Tanto

[RxxxQueen]

I saw this performed by my local symphony orchestra with a small Russian lady pianist, I felt blessed to be in the room, it was breathtaking to listen to! Apparently most professionals felt intimidated by this piece for years after it was made, as they feared they couldn't live up to Rachmaninov's performance (aided by the fact that he could reach up to a 13th with his massive hands!) so it was rarely played.

[bervy8]

So this is how the master wanted it played - Earl Wild, we miss and revere you.

[imaoldkidnow]

@bervy8 YES THANK YOU!

[Mattingly97]

somehow, Halo: The Fall of Reach brought me here.

[AntiguoEspectro]

@Mattingly97 Me too. Greetings.

[MaxRideWizardLord]

Rachmaninov is Russian?

[euterpa9]

@MaxRideWizardLord YES)))ДА))

[1982pencil]

@MaxRideWizardLord хаха, конечно!

[darrenabcd1]

Why not play the ossia version of the cadenza?

[Eztoez]

I've never heard the Cadenza played so fast in my life. Amazing

[forgottenbooks]

@Eztoez Listen to Horowitz's 1943 recording for the fastest recording of the difficult parts.

[Eztoez]

His technique is phenominal

[MrSimeon76]

@barbarossa333 just listened to this again...it's insanely brilliant! Superhuman..

[matoy123456789]

and that's not okay because? :)

[MrJeff221]

Should have been thank you to you . Apologies.

[MrJeff221]

Who ever posted this a very simple than you to you.

[freeqwerqwer]

1.8 million hits....well, that's like a pop star

[beatloop383]

@freeqwerqwer Agreed, but the majority who like popstars are idiots, they do not understand even in the slightest who rachmaninov even was, shout ''rach3'' at xfactor, they'll look at you and say.....................huh? 1.8million hits of true awesomeness. and yes im drunk. x

[YetHaterLover]

@beatloop383 I like pop-stars and I know who Rachmaninoff is. Guess you're wrong, eh?

[dimitrapitsou]

great!!!!!!!



[Coisas9]

ótimo grande Rachmaninoff,

[RudeStag]

Rachmaninov had big hands.

[rotory2002]

I've heard many variations of this tune and love them all...Bravo

[Tuck213]

What an honour to be writing the 2000st comment. Not that it makes any sense though. Absolutely love Rachmaninoff's own play, though I think Prokofiev's is better.

[EpsilonChannel]

@Tuck213 How can Prokofiev play better than Rachmaninoff himself? Rachmaninoff plays at a tempo HE set, at dynamics HE set, and with emotions HE thinks is right, and you think another guy plays BETTER?

[Tuck213]

@EpsilonChannel Yes, because I prefer Prokofiev's interpretation of Rachmaninoff's piece OVER Rachmaninoff's own. What's so strange about that? Rachmaninoff was a brilliant composer but that doesn't mean that I should consider his interpretations of his own pieces as 'the best'.

[Bret6464]

@Tuck213 Rachmaninoff is the composer thus Rachmaninoff performs HOW HE WANTED IT PLAYED. Impossible to say Rach "interprets" his own compositions, he gives you what it SHOULD BE :-))

There are others whose "interpretations are extraordinary; Horowitz, Gilels, Moiseiwitsch, Weissenberg and Argerich, and today it is Jung Lin's "interpretation". Sorry but Prokofiev's "interpretation" of Rach 3rd is not among the best, neither is Prokofiev as great a pianist as he was a composer, IMO :-))

[Tuck213]

@Bret6464 Well, perhaps Rachmaninoff showed us how he wanted it to be, but certainly not how it SHOULD BE. One amazing aspect of art (and music in particular) is that you can freely interpret your own work, and so can others. Even though Rach himself showed us how he played it, there is NO absolute version of any composition.

And it's not for you, neither for me, to decide which version rates the highest in the scale of interpretations. That's an opinion, not a fact.

[Bret6464]

@Tuck213 You are right, there is no absolute version of any composition, the true artist will add something from himself into his interpretation.

Where you keep getting off the right track is in calling Rach's performance his "interpretation" - now that is wrong, this is how Rach WROTE it - what you hear is Rach playing the composition for us all. You must know the composer does not first write the score, and then play it to see how it sounds!

[beats3233]

@EpsilonChannel Rach said that he heard his concerto (3) for the first time when Horowitz played it.

[Athanase48067]

Cleverbot said this guy was good.

[oitotheworld23]

what a cadenza!

[therealjordiano]

reminds me of shine

[ArmoredFelix]

@therealjordiano That's because this song was featured in Shine. Btw this was first. So Shine reminds you of this. :D

[bho1976]

Interesting, his tempo is faster than most modern recordings I've heard.

[cnslpsbly]

i dont know much about music but... if he wrote it i think that gives him permission to skip sections dont you think? :P

[Xhaosz]

Every time I come to listen to this on YouTube, I automatically click like+ favourite, forgetting you can only do it once. Damn shame, I say!

[andraspesti]

I just want to thank Rachmaninoff for the wonderful gift of his music. May he rest in peace knowing that his music is eternal and will continue to be a significant force in my life, as I am sure it is for many others. Every listen, independent of which famous pianist is doing the interpreting, is an inexpressibly powerful experience. Tolstoy, whom I also admire, was short-sighted in condemning his music. To me it is the most honest, accurate, and consistent amalgamation of our emotions in life.

[LizDmitrievna]

@BioProton Yes, he did made some cuts through the piece in his recording. This is one of them.

[BioProton]

I'm not sure, but it feels like something is missing after 5:25

Did he skip a section?

[ModernBabylon]

it's beautiful, but i personally think the unchallengeably best interpretation is that by horrowitz (and from what i've read rachmaninov thought so himself).

[StringsFan4Life]

The 48 people that disliked this must be deaf and are in agony that they can't fully enjoy it.

[dimedizzle]

@StringsFan4Life Nice.

[Deutschlieber]

Achtunddreissig Leute sind stumpfsinnig, na ja, einfach schwachsinnig, geschmacklos!!

[truman1942]

Wonderful!

[wregerg1]

it is so nice to hear the actual artist playing his own masterpiece i was beginning to think that there wasn't any original recordings of his not listening to classical for very long ill hear a song and then its hard to find that exact same version. being some many others that do covers, but this is truly a treat something so old captured on recording and the sound is superb thanks for taking the time to post i enjoyed it very much

[PaulThePuppetier]

@wregerg1 there are no recordings of music being played by their composers becouse there was no recording technology throughout most of "classical" music. We are lucky that Rachmainov was born later and we can actually listen to his playing.

[BeatHaven101]

thumbs up if a commercial brought you here

[jeaniebaby001]

yay 1939...

[Dekida]

Hey!

Where I may get the complete concert?

[piiiiiano]

lol i did it yesterday :) in the philharmonic concert of london :)

[avalokiteshivara]

Rachmaninoff era um grande interprete e um grande Compositor, aqui ele toca com a precisão de um relogio, mas não entendi o ritardando da Cadenza...

[MrTubateacher]

Wow, a Genius at work......

[MrTubateacher]

Wow, a Genius at work......

[ukdavepianoman]

@dhpmathmusic I agree about Bernstein. Maybe he's not quite in the same league as Beethoven/Liszt/Rach but he was certainly great in all three categories of composer/pianist/conductor.

[14598175]

47 dislikes?? Seriously? Do the haters know that he was around *before* iPods by chance?

[TheLegence]

@14598175

Exquisite comment. Had I been the uploader. It wuold be the top most comment. All this modern nonsense . Cruel ignorant people 47

[Sazocars]

@14598175 AMEN A THOUSAND TIMES OVER!

[mobruelle]

Rachmaninoff and Horowitz are legendary... IMO I will add to the list of great Rach interpreters performing today, Horacio Gutierrez and Kissin.

[Bret6464]

@FiddlerAdam IMO The greatest pianists and musicians, as well as extraordinary interpreters of Rach's works are: Rachmaninoff, Gilels, Horowitz, Moiseiwitsch, Richter, Weissenberg, and now Martha Argerich and Jung Lin. You are incorrect saying all of them are well-known. There are others who were/are great pianists. And then there are others who are well known these days who simply do not perform at that extraordinary level. You may prefer others, feel free to post your opinion :-)

[Bret6464]

@FiddlerAdam Since you profess to have a high IQ you should be able to distinguish a clearly arrogant comment that willfully insults Rachmaninoff. Such comments have no room in society and such commenters need to be called out. Otherwise we will have open season on the greatest composer/pianist ever. Assuming intelligent people of good will desire to see some degree of civility on YT, I would expect you to be supportive. However, you seem to be hung up on academia vs. the arts! :-))

[migso]

who ever thinks rach sucks, is a total fuckin idiot... ek

[sauliusipsc]

AWESOME!

[MsSnipes666]

g r e a t

[kristoferfir]

testing

[Monej82]

Favorite piece!



[TheEnglishViking1]

Great composition, dreadful playing.

Rach knew it too, and vowed never to play it again after he heard it played better by another that shall remain nameless.

Too fast, and far too indistinct.l

[JuJuandBob]

@TheEnglishViking1 that nameless person is Vladimir Horowitz

[TheEnglishViking1]

@JuJuandBob,

Correct. It is almost perfection.

It amazes me that the human mind can even think this stuff, let alone the human hand play it.

[Bret6464]

@TheEnglishViking1 Since YT commenters have an average IQ of 50 and little music appreciation or understanding, your comment does not surprise - no way is this performance "dreadful"! That is a stupid comment !!

Rachmaninoff is the one master on piano. Others - Horowitz, Gilels, Moiseiwitsch, Richter, Weissenberg approached Rach, very few can be mentioned in the same discussion. Now there are even fewer extraordinary pianists and artists performing Rach and Rach 3rd: Argerich and Jung Lin.

[TheKnuckleneck]

@Bret6464 "Average IQ of 50"? Aren't we being generous?

[CloudCuckooKing]

@TheKnuckleneck Folks like yourself, Bret6464 and I skew things badly. If you trimmed all the outliers you'd have something closer to 20.

[actorgenie]

I'm on a friend's laptop and am so glad that I can comment here: I was a music major in college as a classical singer & had to study conducting for a "minute". It was fateful in that I conducted the Rach 2 for hours & HOURS! It was played by Van Cliburn, winner of the Rachmaninoff piano competitions! I was young and didn't really have much experience with piano technique as an opera singer, but Sergie & Cliburn absolutey DID IT FOR ME then! In that repetitious conducting I found the....

[MrSgravo]

amazing



[LitoGafik]

those sequences from "Shine" were fantastic

[jeremyowens81]

i was reading halo: fall of reach in jail and it metion this song so i thought i check it out, i enjoy classcial music. think im goin add this to my favs list

[SeriusProductions]

@jeremyowens81 That. Is a great book.

[jeremyowens81]

@SeriusProductions i thought so too

[chronicreptile]

Gotta give credit to 'Shine' for my discovery of Rachmaninov, Very grateful!!

[meetdiamond]

@chronicreptile yeah, that;s a great film.

[minaniro]

brilliant....pure genius~ con passione!!!

[getsbent]

the start IS soft and Gentle ANd builds and builds !TO an Epic Finale > The flow is subtle but so fast ! Such big chords ! I love the ending !

[Jmjager1]

This is pretty.

[MegaBleachy]

Its hard,finding the music I want. @_@ Im looking for the piece i want from Nodame Cantabile. Oh why are they all so ancient, old and famous?

[chobitsiuke]

@MegaBleachy  as I remember it was piano concerto no.2 :) Because of Nodame I've found him too :)

[salomejikia]

Rachmaninov is driving you off this world, fast and without turning back... fantastic!!!

[JoeTownley]

I owe much to Rachmaninoff. He was the inspiration for my Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor. If only I possessed 1/100 of his genius!!!!!!

[Chopibeetho]

Great.. thanks for posting!

[debbonow]

This is fantastic. Don't you wish you could hear Beethoven playing one of his piano concertos?

[XanderUnderstander]

@debbonow I bet even Beethoven wishes that. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, funny.

[nacholibre4497]

wow

[Shibi181]

Hearing him play his own work makes my entire collection of quite wonderful renditions seem pale and bland in comparison. We really are blessed that there are recordings like this available.

[PsychoPop92]

It really pierces your heart, ya know...It's eerie, but very very beautiful.

[Helena08041971]

Нет слов, гениальное произведение!!!

[skyparrow]

acık dağa kas olcak rahman

[tppartington]

How anyone could ever dislike this is beyond me, at least 4020 people have common sense

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@tppartington It's not dislike,it's jealousy my friend.

[binkymagnus]

I'm amazed at how he's ahead of the beat in the opening theme. wow. amazing.....just wow.

[binkymagnus]

@binkymagnus I will never hear this piece the same way again.

[UnScriptedFlix]

I can't listen to this without thinking about the story of david helfgott

[Romdirt]

The "X persons are Y" joke was funny. WAS.

[dennis0mus]

simply fantastic...

[TheIvyChris]

One of the best composers and his best Concerto. Tremendous, beautiful, sensitive... Few weeks ago I had a pleasure to hear this Concerto in Herodion Theater in Athens, under the Acropolis. What else would one wish!? 

[Annoyingthing321]

In response to the "why would anyone dislike this piece they are all idiots" comments that I see in every famous piece of classical music, let me share 2 things with you:

1 - They are not idiots, far from it. They have the guts and the listening ability to have their own say

2 - They posses something called OPINION. You have to actually listen without the urge to make comments like these to understand.

[WarAdmiral2010]

Si este sonido es original, interpretado por el mismisimo Serguéi Rajmáninov, no se puede creer en la fidelidad de la velocidad de la interpretación. En aquella época la calidad de las grabaciones no era fidedigna con la realidad. Pero sin un lugar a dudas, dentro de su barroco cargamento de notas es una obra maestra, para el disfrute pleno de los sentidos, una delicia musical.

[mtoussieh]

@WarAdmiral2010 ¿Me podría(s) explicar porqué no es creíble que esta sea una grabación real? ¿es una falacia que estoy escuchando una grabación de Rachmaninov tocando Rachmaninov? ¿Cómo lo puedo saber? ¿Cómo puedo encontrar una original?

Gracias por compartir esta información

ENGLISH: WarAdmiral 2010 just explained in Spanish that it can't really be an original 1939 recording because of the speed of the interpretation and the lack technological capacity at the time.

[Bret6464]

@mtoussieh @waradmiral2010

This is in fact Rachmaninoff playing, there are 1919/1920 recordings of Rach :-)

Rach played very fast and with almost no pedal, that is what separates the extraordinary pianists, and it reflects his surreal technique and artistry - he is the greatest pianist for all time. Other greats also play this the Rach 3rd, and Rach 2nd very fast and interpret similarly. Don't be fooled by many current well-known pianists playing much slower and using too much pedal.

[clickfall]

i miss this song in 02 jam ^_^

[xXDzoniXx]

David Helfgott !!! :D

[dominikrogginer]

Which 44 dickheads unliked this masterpiece?

[Hjominbonrun]

@dominikrogginer youtube is fail. they put dislike right next to like. therefore there will be some accidental dislikes. What is the probability that someone will accidentally dislike this? 44 to 3983

[derekkwok123]

7:10 AWESOME!!!

[SepiaLatimanus]

Wow

[ThePianoconcerto]

@nequillim

Apreciate MUSICAL GENIUS like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga???!!!! They don't even know what music is. The "music" they try to create is empty sound based on some regular chords and rythms full of repetitions... There is no genius in there, only noise and stupid show-off. And if you think I'm saying this as an amateur you are very wrong because I probably have much more musical knowledge and education than you.

[ThePianoconcerto]

And by the way, talking about bieber and gaga in the presence of a rachmaninov's composition and interpretation is an insult to what the deepest concept of music is and only shows your lack of knowledge and perception about the great music.

[McThomas369]

Rachmaninov, you must be the best composer FOREVER!!!

[McThomas369]

First is his great Piano Concerto Op. 18 No. 2. Now is Piano Concerto Op. 18 No. 3.

[FuzzyConstant]

The first 30 seconds are pure gorgeousness.