Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody (2)
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I really like this performance overall, though I had to laugh at the milking of variation 17. "You are setting up some big expectations here, people!" But they delivered dramatically, so it's all good.
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Absolutely incredible. I love his playing.
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5:50 he's so stoned
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It seems that perhaps he is not feeling comfortable with the orchestra, limited or no rehearsal time? His vision of this work is not shared? Some orchestral entrances may be looser than he'd like? I know there were some that felt quite uncomfortable to me, and to play something of this magnitude, the slightest trepidation is magnified geometrically. I really love his interpretation.
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Damn cell phone rings at 8:50
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7:07 - awesome!
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@47viviane In reply to a comment you made re Stephen Hough and the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - I think you have a point, because others have said the very same thing and to my mind his performance is on a par with Rachmaninoff's. I myself have never heard a performance like this - the music just leaps off the page.
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Hough is amazing here, of course, but the orchestra sounds great too!
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incredibly beautiful
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I bet he's great in bed!
Of all the movements, a phone goes off during the 18th. This is making me rethink my position on capital punishment...
tafari127 4 years ago 24
Oh, but his sad little half-smile at the very end! A look that says "That could have gone better..." Nonsense, Stephen. It was beautiful!
mixedcake000 3 years ago 11