Rachmaninoff conducts his "Isle of the Dead", Part I

what cd is this on?

Rachmaninoff's music is absolutely beautiful! He is my favorite composer

Please inform me. It is hard to believe that Rachmaninoff would take the advice on anyone to make cuts rather than depend on his own inate musical sense.
I only know one version of this work, but it is possible that some cuts are not noticable.

I wish I could give you specific examples of people who would pressure him that way; however, there's much I don't know. What I read years ago in various sources still stands (how one wishes the quotations were remembered for later); furthermore, the very nature of the cuts (compare this version with either Priwin or Ashkenazy! - or what's posted here - and check with the score!) points in that direction. [Those cuts are quite noticeable once you know the full uncut 'Urtext'!!]

When one suggests that Rachmaninoff is suitable as background music for a Harry Potter filmm this is commercial prostitution

In response to Paradise737.

You're putting words in my mouth - I never implied that Isle of the Dead should be downgraded to a simple piece of background music.

Tell me, why do you think that Rachmaninoff's art was inherently better than other art? Do you think Rachmaninoff would agree with you that his music is too good to be even associated with Harry Potter? Well?

I wasn't degenerating Rachmaninoff into popular commercialism.

When one suggests that Rachmaninoff would make a good music for a Harry Potter film- that´s commercial prostitution.

It's like how they've ruined many other classical masterpieces by making them the theme to overrated lame movies.

IF this is so, why has modern art become a modern fraud?