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Uploaded by on Feb 19, 2009

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
Piece: Piano Concerto 4 (Opus 40)
Movement: 2 : Largo
Pianist: Vladmir Ashkenazy
Conductor: Andre Previn
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

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1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9FOmqLr9Ys
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xapYOF_Qrnk
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ow8hYc_Fm4

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  • At 5m38s it's one of the most breathtaking crescendos I've ever heard!

  • I'm not ashamed to say that at times I got lost in the first movement. This is the only Rachmaninov concerto that loses me like that.

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  • I keep hearing Gershwin and Bartok in amongst the three blind mice theme. Rach trying to be American?

  • This s the true voice of homesickness.

  • @JoEbYX I disliked this concerto to start with. I just didn't get it - then I reheard from 5:22 again to 6:24 and thought of the relationship between piano and orchestra and how he uses all the instruments to create wonderful effects. From there I listened to it a dozen times and it gets better with each hearing for me.

  • @opterios Yes, there is something particularly sublime and powerful right at that point I've thought that from the moment I ever first heard it.

  • @Starbirdy9999 same here, it hasnt got the great romantic easy to follow crescendos as his other concertos and is more intimate but when listened to a few times it is unspeakably beautiful

  • כל כך יפה ועדין

  • כל כך יפה

  • @JoEbYX you find it emotionally jarring?

  • I don't understand why this was so badly received when it premiered, it's an amazingly beautiful work!

    Or maybe it's because I'm not as educated as his critics were, I dunno.

  • I have seriously fall in love with his music since I hear that piece

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