Sergei rachmaninov piano concerto
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 - OCRSergei Rachmaninov
Sergei Rachmaninov was born in 1873 into an affluent Russian family. Unfortunately, his father lost all their wealth in business, which resulted in his parents' separation and Sergei moving to live with his aunt.
The first public performance of Rachmaninov’s first symphony A long composition for the orchestra, typically featuring four movements. was a disaster with audiences hating it. The reaction left him feeling depressed. After his treatment, he composed his second piano concertoA piece for an orchestra with a soloist, in three movements which was well received. Rachmaninov continued to compose a large amount of music for piano before he died in the USA in 1943.
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
Rachmaninov started to write the Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor at the very start of the 20th century 1901-2000. . The first performance was in Moscow with Rachmaninov as the soloistA person who performs music as a solo - alone. . The piece is dedicated to Monsieur N. Dahl, the doctor who treated Rachmaninov for his depression.
The first movement is written in C minor key signatureA pattern of sharps or flats at the beginning of a piece of music indicating which are to be played.. It opens with sustained c
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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
Concerto for softness and orchestra by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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About this Piece
Right around the time Stravinsky was emerging as Russia’s great avant-gardist, his fellow countryman Sergei Rachmaninoff was embarking on the second phase of his stellar career as a concert pianist in the Romantic tradition. Rachmaninoff had been a student of Anton Arensky, who had been a student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and of Taneyev, who had studied with Tchaikovsky. Thus, Rachmaninoff straddled two Russias—both chronologically, between the composers of “old Russia” and the Soviets, and aesthetically, between the Nationalism of Rimsky-Korsakov and the academic Romanticism of Tchaikovsky.
The year 1909 marked the beginning of Rachmaninoff’s last years in Russia leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution. He was now performing more as a pianist and conductor than composing, but he began the Third Piano Concerto in the summer of 1909 at his home at Ivanovka, in southern Russia, for a planned American concert tour that fall.
Premiered by the composer with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch on November 28, 1909, the piece was recognized as characteristic Rachmaninoff: excruciatingly difficult piano writing with sprawling chords and magnificent lines, lush orchestral textures, and moody, bittersweet melodies. And although today it is consid