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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto "No. 5" in E minor - I. Largo - Allegro moderato

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Uploaded by on May 23, 2011

Originally written as a four movements symphony by Rachmaninoff, it is transcribed to a three movement piano concerto by Alexander Warenberg. With Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy on the piano, conductor Theodore Kuchar and the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra.

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  • do you think Rach is tossing and turning in his grave?

  • @PiningGersha Why dont you ask him?

  • This is not the piano concerto no. 5, by Rachmaninoff, it's just an arrangement of the symphony no. 2, i think that it's wrong to use that name to this arrangement.

    It's nice, thats true, but, that name it's inappropiate.

  • @tibicem Note the description...

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  • Rach also did variations on other classical composers' music. Don't stumble over details but enjoy the haunting melodies.

  • I just want 2:30 to 3:20 on a loop. So magnificent.

  • SO wonderful. I don't think there's any disputing that this concerto makes a fine addition to the existing four. Even if it's not truly "Rachmaninoff's" fifth concerto, I think the very nature of art is reconstruction and reimagination. That Warenberg transformed so exceptionally a grand symphonic work into a stylistically accurate piece on an even more dynamic scale is, to say the least, extremely impressive. Kudos to Warenberg and to Rachmaninoff.

  • @PiningGersha. I don't think so, there's such a rich history of piano arrangements - see all the Liszt ones. All the same, there's an amazing sequence of descending scales in the final movement, and I think the arrangement (or perhaps the performance) makes a total hash of it. Otherwise very enjoyable.

  • @PiningGersha I don't think so.I really appreciate the amzing work made by the transcriber. Huge work, very well done. It really sounds Rachmaninov in way the piano parte has been worked out. Congratulations!

  • As long as the Rach5 title is put in quotation marks and the true nature of the work is explained, I for one wouldn't mind. Actually I did a somewhat similar thing in 1997 with Grieg, making a concerto out of his sparing sketches for his embryonic 2nd in B minor. A performance of this work in Kaunas, Lithuania in 2009 lies on YouTube, beginning with v=Fffd8R7c-U

  • @wilsonnkwan  STFU

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