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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 3 in C Minor (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Prelude in B Minor, Op. 32, No. 10 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto (II. Adagio sostenuto) [Arr. for Cello, harp and Orchestra]
HAUSER & London Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninov: 14 Romances, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise (Transcr. Strauss & Rizikov for Cello and Piano)
Anastasia Rizikov & Lisa Strauss
Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19/ISR 7: III. Andante
Cheng² Duo
Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 1 in C Minor (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin / 2018)
Yuja Wang
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (1941 3rd Version): II. Largo
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1 (1917 Final Version): III. Allegro vivace
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
About Sergei Rachmaninoff
Artist Biography
Rachmaninoff excelled as a conductor, virtuoso pianist and composer famous for his ripely melodious, wistful strain of late Romanticism. Born in 1873, his earliest formative experience was hearing the bells of St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod. Their sound informs several of his works, not least the tolling opening of his Piano Concerto No. 2. After a shaky start, his musical studies improved once his talent was recognised at the Moscow Conservatory by Tchaikovsky protégé Arensky. Rachmaninoff took his exams a year early and graduated aged 19 with the highest possible marks. Shortly afterwards, he wrote the Prelude in C-Sharp Minor (1892), which became his regular encore as a touring pianist. As a composer, Rachmaninoff suffered blows that reduced his creativity: the poorly performed 1897 premiere of his First Symphony, which resulted in a three-year creative block; the October Revolution of 1917, which forced him to leave his homeland and lead a more-or-less itinerant existence between the U.S. and Western Europe. His pre-Revolutionary masterpieces include his Second and Third Piano Concertos (1901, 1909) and the soulful and consoling Second Symphony (1907). The relative failure of his Fourth Concerto (1926) led to another creative hiatus, eventually broken with the Variations on a Theme of Corelli for solo piano (1931), followed by 1934’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra with its seductive Andante cantabile variation. His final work, Symphonic Dances (1940), looks back at Russia with both nostalgia and bitterness, including a vengeful quotation from his choral All-Night Vigil (1915). He died of cancer in Beverly Hills in 1943.
Hometown
Semyonovo, Russia
Genre
Classical
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