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Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op.23 No.2

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One of my favourite preludes.
I think that Emil Gilels' playing of this piece is the best.

I hope you enjoy the music!

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  • This is GAVRILOV,i have the cd and i'm sure at 1000%o

  • but i prefer Gilels :)

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  • 2:24 - 2:30 Wow. This part is very very very difficult and the performer is perfect (both accuracy and power). Great interpretation!!!

  • This is more Wagnerian than The Entrance Of The Gods. Colossal performance (by Gavrilov, I guess), but Richter's is far more nuanced. Gavrilov's bull is charging down the alleys of Pamplona without stopping for air

  • @sagalat I'd play it for you quite well. I'm a pianist by profession, and I have an extensive conservatory education. I also know many, many other people who can play it quite well also. The prelude is very difficult, I grant you, but many advanced conservatory students play it. Not impossible :)

  • @formenlehre: You'd "play" it for me? Sure....but HOW WELL?? I, too, can "play" it for YOU....We could have a Competition of The Two Cripples!

  • @sagalat I agree with you. For 12 years, my favorite was Richter, and yet I think this impresses me more. I'm surprised you call the prelude impossible though -- if you were here I'd play it for you :)

  • My favourite version is with Weissenberg

  • I love this. Rachmaninow is my favpuirte composer. I played just two of his preludes, but i love everyone. This is incredible genius!

  • Christ, I'm friggin Breathless, yo! Sounds more like Horowitz than Gilels. ARE YOU SURE? Until now, my favorite for this Impossible Prelude was Richter, although I adore Kissin's encore, too. But this THIS rips a whole new hole in the velvet. Do you have any details?

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