I appreciate it

he sure had big hands

>>12371150
noted

I downloaded a whole bunch of his stuff, but have yet to listen to it.

I should really get on that.

>>12371173
Yes. You should.
>D:

motherfucking vespers
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32XE7KV5

I like nearly everything I've heard by him (not a terrible lot) - except for the piano concertos. They're trash.

dat hat right there.

this is the general russian people appreciation thread

i like that nabokov fellow and that stravinksy chap

i wonder why russians have such awesome art

He's the highwater mark of Music and it's all been downhill

Hell just go listen to his 3rd Piano Concerto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkSqqwU1LU (starts at :26)

>>12371195
Haha what? You stupid, champ?

>>12371195
>Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto's trash
>mfw

>>12371201
I'll see your Martha and raise you a Horowitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6u1ejeRzd0

My piano concerto is more famous.

>>12371223
Blatant lies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ud_wGMXRnQ

>>12371234
Nuh-uh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWerj8FcprM

Rimsky Korsakov is a pretty cool guy

>>12371277
Those opening chords...ahhh...

but still Rach's 3rd beats it hands down.

>>12371201
Now you're exaggerating. Rachmaninoff is good, but not particularly relevant in the big picture.

>>12371202
>>12371211
They have some nice tunes but wear thin awfully quickly, to me his thematic development is clumsy, even plodding, the orchestration and textures lack contrast - his piano concertos are extremely monotonous compared to truly great ones like Mozart's, Beethoven's, Schumann's or Schoenberg's. Quite frankly I do not think Rachmaninoff was great enough a composer to handle such large, abstract structures. His shorter piano pieces and works with lyrics are superior.

I like his Preludes and Etude Tableux.

His concerti are sometimes hackneyed in lesser hands but in the hands of real masters they're great.

Bitches be jealous...

Also Kissin's hair...fucking eh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlHf-pqOIY

>>12371332
The Audio quality, good lord.

Have some Pollini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7KfOyMEIY

>>12371351
Piss on audio quality.

Have some Cortot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVjN4VIWLE

First good piano concerto in the whole thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8DtjV9DWs

Also a mindblowingly spirited performance.

>>12371473

Chopin is such a bitch to play, I mean it's technically easy but I always find myself playing far too legato.

>>12371481
I get you're one of those Classical Elitists who hates the Romantic movement

>>12371473
Fuck edutes, Nocturne No. 2 up in this bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk

>>12371498
Nope, some of my favorite piano concertos are either Romantic or post-Romantic.

>>12371505

Etude Op.10 No.3 is considered by quite a few people (including Chopin himself) as his best work.

>>12371505
Fuck overplayed Chopin, let's get some Krakowiak, yes that's fucking right KRAKOWIAK BITCH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwItAAD6yKc

>>12371527
I always liked Schumann's homage to Chopin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjMPsLmFMwk

>>12371555
I like it less if its just individual, seems to fit in better with the entire Carnaval.

well this thread got derailed

>>12371705
appreciation of rachmaninoff is introspective, just like many of his works

>>12371308
The Rach 1 is arguably a descendant of the Schumann Concerto.

Schumann -> Grieg -> Rach 1

Rach thought the Grieg Concerto was the greatest concerto ever composed, and it shows.

>>12371788

What's interesting is that I *believe* Rach 1 is considered his "worst" either that or Rach 4

And now for the best and most original Romantic piano concerto, the greatest leap forward for the genre since Mozart's KV 271:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5p5E3XCQ4&fmt=18

Shame on you if you didn't know which one I was talking about before clicking the link.

>>12371818
Sends chills man

>>12371788
Yes, I knew that - still, I have a hard time thinking of Grieg's and Rach's concertos as evolutions of the Schumann concerto, they're just nowhere as good.

>>12371848
>opinions opinions opinions

>>12371839
Yeah, that performance destroys, it's one of the few non-chamber orchestra versions that successfully conveys Schumann's incredibly nuanced orchestration too - those who think Schumann couldn't orchestrate are stark raving mad.