Rachmaninov - piano concerto No.2 /1

6:56 O_O Oh wow.....

...every man must find its own way through the trials and tribulations of this life.... find a way to follow his conscience... and are we not all tested at certain points in life? Somehow, music and art elevates us from those uncertainties...because it brings us closer to love..... and it finds its voice in pieces like this... who we are is not written on a piece of paper nor can be imprisoned by any outer judgement of time. Thanks so much for posting this.

Such an interpretation brings out powerful emotions; another pianist that comes close to such a feat is Ingrid Sala Santamaria

i really wish i could play this on piano.

Brilliant !!!!

gorgeous. soo beautiful

Without being in the Nazi party he wouldn't have been able to do much career-wise and might well have had to go into exile - perhaps he didn't feel big (famous) enough to be able to succeed while under such conditions...

Still, I'll admit that it's disquieting. [Were it the SS - or if he did evil to his colleagues from within the Party - THEN it would be considerably worse. Still, he proved to be a superb artist above 1st-class!!]

Either way, here's a 1st-rate interpretation bar none!! Pity for the glitch near the beginning as well as the sound and video aren't properly synchronised. Ah well, it's minor compared to getting to know this superb rendition of a 1st-rate piece!!!

Sjergjéy Vasíljevich's therapist truly did a marvelous job in helping him out of his desperate funk after the fiasco of his 1st-symphony (it after all lasted 3 whole years!!). That concerto alone repaid the therapy a million-fold!

Rachamaninoff wasn't a Nazi, he was Russian. Herbert von Karajan's family (the conductor in this video) were members of the nazi party at one point early, they were very wealthy and well known in society. However, it is said he himself renounced it and left the country.

It seemed to me that it's Herbert von Karajan who for a while was a Nazi-party member, and who was being discussed.

Of course Rakhmáñinov never had anything to do with that evil organization - or the Communists, for that matter. He fled Russia right after Ljéñin took over Russia, in the midst of the Russian Civil War that erupted at the end of 1917 and lasted through 1920.

Stáljin wanted him to return to the USSR; but he - no fool - most fortunately knew better!!!