Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto "No. 5" in E minor - I. Largo - Allegro moderato

[xrayman149]

Rach also did variations on other classical composers' music. Don't stumble over details but enjoy the haunting melodies.

[pianoforte611]

I just want 2:30 to 3:20 on a loop. So magnificent.

[King9Dante]

SO wonderful. I don't think there's any disputing that this concerto makes a fine addition to the existing four. Even if it's not truly "Rachmaninoff's" fifth concerto, I think the very nature of art is reconstruction and reimagination. That Warenberg transformed so exceptionally a grand symphonic work into a stylistically accurate piece on an even more dynamic scale is, to say the least, extremely impressive. Kudos to Warenberg and to Rachmaninoff.

[helgeevju]

As long as the Rach5 title is put in quotation marks and the true nature of the work is explained, I for one wouldn't mind. Actually I did a somewhat similar thing in 1997 with Grieg, making a concerto out of his sparing sketches for his embryonic 2nd in B minor. A performance of this work in Kaunas, Lithuania in 2009 lies on YouTube, beginning with v=Fffd8R7c-U

[PiningGersha]

do you think Rach is tossing and turning in his grave?

[wilsonnkwan]

@PiningGersha Why dont you ask him?

[PiningGersha]

@wilsonnkwan  STFU

[lesginka]

@PiningGersha I don't think so.I really appreciate the amzing work made by the transcriber. Huge work, very well done. It really sounds Rachmaninov in way the piano parte has been worked out. Congratulations!

[domcogan]

@PiningGersha. I don't think so, there's such a rich history of piano arrangements - see all the Liszt ones. All the same, there's an amazing sequence of descending scales in the final movement, and I think the arrangement (or perhaps the performance) makes a total hash of it. Otherwise very enjoyable.

[tibicem]

This is not the piano concerto no. 5, by Rachmaninoff, it's just an arrangement of the symphony no. 2, i think that it's wrong to use that name to this arrangement.

It's nice, thats true, but, that name it's inappropiate.

[wilsonnkwan]

@tibicem Note the description...