Rachmaninov - Prelude in C Sharp Minor

[fleurobscura]

Beautiful

[joni4749]

I do remember reading 4 staves!! OMG

[joni4749]

This was the last piece I studied before I quit. I was 13. Long story. Great piece! ♪

[MsDeadlySymphony]

I'm gonna play this next year. I'm graduating music school and this will be one of the 5 masterpieces I will be playing.

[sugahmama1234]

When i listen to this song i HAVE to crank the volume!

[sugahmama1234]

what grade of piano about do you have to be to learn this song?

[WingsofCarbon]

@sugahmama1234 I've been playing for 13 years (since the age of 5), and am playing it now, but overall, I'd say that it could be manageable after about 4-6 years of serious private lessons (which would vary for each individual situation). Obviously a prodigy could manage it faster, and a recreational player slower.

[ArchangelAstriel]

One of the things to do before I die is to learn to play this song...

[poposisa]

@ArchangelAstriel Do it before the month ends instead :P

[redskiesfan]

I've always thought this was the most beautiful music I'd ever heard. I played this at a recital when I was 13 y/o, many years ago.

[FuckingDracula]

My heart

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

Pianists are so lucky in that they are able to play entire works of music by themselves. As a string player I will never enjoy the ability to control every aspect of a whole musical performance with the exception of some solo stuff by Bach (which is amazing), but music like this will forever be beyond my grasp. I am jealous. I would love to be able to come home one day when I am feeling dark and just perform something like this for myself. What an excellent piece of music

[GuitarTecho]

@AbsoluteZ3R0 You do have a great point. But the magnitude of music that is possible with an orchastra is just so much greater, like listen to this than listen to the william tell overture (not just the finale) and just I cant make the comparison, but yes you have a point. :)

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

@GuitarTecho It's true that a symphony orchestra is probably the most powerful musical force there is, however, as an individual string player you are then in control of practically none of the music.

[PsychoSpartan7]

@GuitarTecho Listz actually bragged that he was able to create a more powerful sound than an entire orchestra. But he's Listz.

[julie190682]

Splendide !!!!

[QGfk1]

fortisisissimo: Rachmaninoff turns it up to 11

[pan100lion]

the dynamics are very different in this version from others I have heard. I like it better when it is a bit more ppp in the beginning part... it makes the pesante part sound more crazy.

[StreetCliche]

Q-Unique - Mr.Lopez

[castoni2]

POWERFUL.

[paneuphony]

fun fact: Rachmaninoff wrote this when he was 18.. and he said he sometimes regretted it because his audiences wanted at every concert to hear "The Prelude". Critics at the time thought it was too formulaic/simple.

I'm glad he wrote it, though. not every day the music opens up to 4 staves with ffff accents (well for me anyway). chills just from thinking through the piece in my head.

[bernietheufo]

Yes, Muse brought me here... But this is now my favourite piano piece ever.

[QuiteQuirky]

This is the best interpretation of this piece that I have found. Thank you :) I've been searching forever!

[oOalinasOo]

Between this song and Beethoven's Tempest, I can daydream for the rest of my life. I actually can't help but disconnect from the present moment when I play or listen to this one. You do a marvellous job. I'm not nearly there yet with my arthritic hands, but even parts of this song are amazing. I just love the transition between the chording and the broken arpeggios. I think your rendition is one of the best I've ever heard. I bet you did well with your concert.

[lorriekountz1]

This piece takes my breath away. It is life itself.

[paulmcc11]

its a great picture of him

[lokikotemia]

This has to be my favorite piano piece ever. Especially in this performance, it's very.. powerful.

[Diabalon]

when i played it I imagined i was an evil sourcerer who wanted tp destroy the world...

[rumy0chan0kawaii]

Anger! Thats what am getting! Even my heart beats faster and my breathing is heavy! He plays it well! I want to learn it now!

[Decarbonize]

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out! Out brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound! and fury! signifying nothing. . . . . .

[TheMonkeyslaughter]

@Nikolidas :D student is right, musically talented... some do say, but what have I said to possibly make somebody presume that I could be a paedophile? ;)

[TheMonkeyslaughter]

@heygal24 I turned 15 a couple of weeks ago. may I ask why you want to know my age?

[Nikolidas]

@TheMonkeyslaughter He probably couldn't decide whether or not you were a teacher, a student or possibly a musically talented paedophile :)

[Nikolidas]

@TheMonkeyslaughter He probably couldn't decide whether or not you were a teacher, a student or possibly a musically talented paedophile :)

[MiPanzaable]

Awesome !! I really want to play it again !! Wonderful ! This is magical !

[Horushu]

Magical! Eternal.

[okbrightstar]

I've just chosen this piece as one of my grade 10 pieces this year. I'm sooo excited to learn it :D

[TripleRhu]

It is from "Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov" cd, right? (piano roll)

[ANTONIOJOSERAMIREZ]

Nooo is an interesting master´expresion from his deep soul with clear and dramatize his sensivity .

[ANTONIOJOSERAMIREZ]

Nooo is an interesting master´expresion from of his deep soul with clear dramatism.

[theanguished1]

This piece is diabolical

[urswth3art4lyf3]

the first part of the song is played by the possessed character in the movie "exorcism of emily rose."

[jayriggzy]

When Chopin wrote preludes, they were supposed to be on the easier side. This, however, is not "prelude" easy at all.

[RE8978RETURN]

@jayriggzy i have thoughts of being a chubby male latino prostitute wearing panties for dirty old men

[pianobear7491]

I think whoever played this slowed down the end a bit too much... Just an opinion...

[RueCloud]

@pianobear7491

I think that this is Rachmaninov playing so...nope, he slowed it down just how he intended when he composed the entire song...

[TheMonkeyslaughter]

I'm going to play this piece on monday at my school concert. always when I play I imagine some event that has happened to me or remember a feeling I had and try to deliver that emotion with my playing.. yesterday I remembered the feeling I had while visiting the concentration camp in dachau while playing this piece... my heart was racing, and I played it very differently but I must say it was better than before...

[heygal24]

@TheMonkeyslaughter umm, how old are you?

[C3P0meetsData]

This piece is so...politically-unstable Russia. I mean that in the best way possible.

[Malliendk1]

@C3P0meetsData You got it!

[takethisyou0tube]

exactly, that's like saying I disagree with those who say Newton was JUST a dancer.

[tommyquality]

I love how his music tells such an amazing story.

the talent.. amazing. it really is.

[butterbeatsmargarin]

i completely disagree with people who state that rachmaninoff was only a brilliant composer, and nothing more. He was not only that. He was a brilliant pianist, he was capable of transferring deep emotion found within his written music through his playing as well...

[dbikeguy]

@butterbeatsmargarin who says hes just a brilliant composer? the man was a concert pianist! haha

[ThatCanadianGuy17]

i can understand why ppl would think it is haunting baed on rachinaminov's words for the title.. but ... i actually find the piece very comforting and peaceful considerding it;s original meaning..... very pleaeant song for all to enjoy

[ThatCanadianGuy17]

it's Rachnaminov .... hence it picture and name in the title

[paneuphony]

@ThatCanadianGuy17 with youtube, you never can know for sure.

[wildknight1103]

It would be nice if you posted the pianist's name.