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Rachmaninoff conducting Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1/2)

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Part 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Recording 1929
Conductor - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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  • Hard to see you posting orchestral works, truecrypt!

  • I usually don't, but somebody has asked me if I could post it. I just had this file... ;)

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  • Incomparable!! No one conducted Rachmaninoff like Rachmaninoff, himself. He conducted the way he played the piano. One could tell it was he, instantly.

  • magnificent!

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  • I agree that this is a great recording, with impressive sound quality given the period. But why on Earth did Rachmaninov make cuts in this performance?

  • Only those who have experienced immense sadness can hope to express it to this degree - and Rachmaninoff's genius cuts deep. He was a gift to us :-)

  • Every Rachmaninoff composition has his one style of melancholy to it (mostly likely because of his depression) and is BEAUTIFUL

  • One of the best Rachmaninovs stuff.

  • amen. in a world strafed with war, Rachmaninoff was still able to write such passionate and beautiful music. I too am a composer who has had several works performed, both as performer and conductor, so I can relate to Rachmaninoffs' world. (less the war)

  • Anyways, thank you. A great interpretation by the composer itself...

  • He would have been a great soundtrack composer, but I like his piano compositions a bit better.

    Especially Op. 32 No. 10.

  • an outstanding conductor was "lost" when Rachmaninoff chose the piano virtuso option after leaving Russia. to my mind, the great "if only" is that they never let him loose with the Philadelphia Orchestra to set out HIS vision of the 2nd Symphony.

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