The Evolution of Rachmaninoff's Music (From 11 to 67 Years Old)

[@PianoMusicBros]

It's time for some great works by Rachmaninoff! What's your favorite piece by him? ♫ 19 Years Old Sheet Music (Prélude in C-sharp minor): tinyurl.com/2fvjdcuk * ♫ 27 Years Old Sheet Music (Piano Concerto No. 2, 1st Movement | Different Version): tinyurl.com/466pekw4 * ♫ 33 Years Old Sheet Music (Italian Polka | Different Version): tinyurl.com/4ja5h822 * ♫ 39 Years Old Sheet Music (Vocalise | Different Version): tinyurl.com/ydb37xtb * * Affiliate Link

[@mrsfahrenheit1100]

Prelude in C sharp minor

[@Aleksandr_Skrjabin]

Prob something like his first piano concerto, or moment musicaux no. 3, anyways id like to be next, Scriabin you know.

[@levraidunoob]

Piano concerto no2 or prelude in c sharp minor !

[@mangomerkel2005]

Piano Concerto No.2, my favourite ever piece of music and always amazing to play! On Wednesday, I will play the Scherzando of Rach 3 at a school concert, looking forward to it!

[@SuperibyP]

It varies by mood, but right now it is Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op.18 movement 2, Adagio Sostenuto. To me it sounds like a Disney soundtrack for love, a gentle, tender, and soulful opening, rising apprehensively into passion and then settling again. I love it so much.

[@piacomispl2023]

Chopin inspires me Liszt amazes me Rachmaninoff scares me

[@acusado]

i totally agree

[@kininiwong5350]

137 likes with 1 reply? Lemme fix that

[@charlesthomas5956]

166 likes with 2 replies? Lemme fix that (Edit for 10 replies special: Lol how did i get so much people to copy me? Thanks everyone!)

[@mr.minecraft1176]

187 likes with 3 replies? Lemme fix that

[@Ken-gl5ir]

189 likes with 4 replies? Lemme fix that

[@rudraagrawal2181]

Rachmaninoff has 2 modes: Angry doomer or Deeply in Love

[@nss4472]

What about 3:20 then?😂 Bell mode angry doomer?😅

[@Boingus-]

​@nss4472 It's goes in between a state of mania and angry doomerism

[@christianweatherbroadcasting]

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[@archsys307]

@@christianweatherbroadcastingyou putting off more people than you connecting wit…. rethink ya ministry bombaclaat

[@wolfgangsbrother6118]

Please Jesus forgive my sins

[@gogpoydi]

There's something about Rachmanioffs music that touches the deepest parts of my heart.

[@mangomerkel2005]

Well said! Exactly my experience with many of his pieces.

[@nss4472]

Rachmaninov

[@Studentofgosset]

No that's Dirofilaria Immitis

[@stale.baguette]

@@nss4472it’s actually rachmaninoff

[@MuAlexJS]

@@stale.baguette i believe his actual name is rachmaninov but he just liked spelling it rachmaninoff or rachmaninow

[@Cromf]

Rachmaninoff is the composer like no other composer. Sure his compositions have noticeable influence of Chopin, but he also developed the style of his own full of expressiveness, which is why he’s my favorite composer.

[@Bwv1046]

He ain't bad tho

[@VianoMusicAcademy]

Check Medtner out

[@Гаксим_Малкин]

Не похож на Шопена

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

He is literally kitsch. You have no understanding of art or music

[@VianoMusicAcademy]

@@ToxicTurtleIsMad says Bach himself 👈

[@mangomerkel2005]

FINALLY! My favourite! The composer that evoked so many emotions I had never known...thank you. On Wednesday, I will play the Scherzando of Rach 3 at a school concert, looking forward to it!

[@JeremyNohrnbergComposer]

Damn that’s impressive! He’s my favorite too, good luck!

[@mangomerkel2005]

​@@JeremyNohrnbergComposerThanks! I uploaded a video of me playing the first movement of Rach 2, in general, I love his 2nd Piano Concerto the most.

[@sanderhaltbakk9865]

Good luck! Very impressive, nice and hard piece.

[@mangomerkel2005]

Thanks! Yep, it is indeed quite difficult, I learned this part for my girlfriend and amongst other things gave her the sheet as our anniversary present, therefore I was motivated enough to learn it :D I am preparing a lot and have a good feeling about it, I think I can play it pretty well since I love Rachmaninoff from the bottom of my heart, especially for his emotionality.

[@leevinolla8818]

school concert: And today we have Ling Ling performing. Ling Ling plays Ty Ty Ty tyyyyyyyy Ty Ty Ty tyyyyyyyy, audience: wow Xd School concerts is best😂

[@splooey2151]

Fun fact: Rachmaninoff's Étude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 6 is actually written alongside with his other Op. 33 Études-Tableaux compositions as Op. 33 No. 4, but it was not published alongside other Op. 33 études, rather, it was revised and published with other Op. 39 études.

[@JeremyNohrnbergComposer]

If Chopin makes you want to buy a piano, Rachmaninoff makes you want to sell one

[@d3l_nev]

The both of them make me want to sell my piano

[@dankr7009]

That's accurate yup

[@leevinolla8818]

Xd

[@stephanvelychko255]

And Liszt makes you want to break one

[@TurfSurf]

@@stephanvelychko255true😂

[@adrianok4266]

Piano Concerto No 2 the Adagio Sostenuto is amongst my Top 5 all time favourites... Such an agonizingly beautiful and heart-wrenching piece that you want to cry to .. And his All-night Vigil, Now Lettest Though moves me to tears everytime... Rachmaninov is a master of touching the souls of those who listen to his music

[@alltmisc]

But have you heard his greatest piece, poogooo?

[@rachguy]

i kinda consider my self as a rachmaninoff mania, but man, there are so many hidden masterpieces

[@rachmaniwuff8198]

Ikrr!!! He has so many good works out there, it's almost impossible for me to pick a singular favorite!!

[@69dm]

they're so hidden, so when you find them over time, each one of them changes your previous perception of piano forever

[@maringtamayo8700]

He composed such a hard piece at 11!😳😳

[@DrNykterstein17]

Fiquei embasbacado. Não conheço a obra de Rachmaninoff então sempre achei que ele não fosse grande coisa, quando escutei sua primeira obra, me surpreendi.

[@antoinesimon4769]

Very interesting to compare it with the paganini variation in this video. There s a certain proximity between them.

[@nss4472]

​@@DrNykterstein17😢😮😱😩😲😕😣😭😵

[@taylorstrqfik]

I'm 11 and I can't even play that~

[@s_an3k643]

@@DrNykterstein17 listen to the "moment musicaux 4" , you will understand who Rachmaninoff is

[@jaygatz4335]

Concerto #2 was my intro to Rachmaninov and has a special place. I also love Concerto #4, the Paganini Rhapsody, and, thanks to Yunchan Lim, Concerto #3.

[@coltonhurley4804]

Can’t believe he wrote the into to howls moving castle at 12

[@weedermann]

The dude was BUSY and BRILLIANT throughout his adolescent years.

[@dunsbroccoli2588]

This visualizer demystifies piano so much. You can really see how a pianist just approaches the task of music making as a kind of self solving puzzle/game instead of some kind of ungraspable miraculous abstraction. Been really enjoying watching these as an addition to my art history studies. It’s taken me half a lifetime to be able to find a way to find a way to digest this type of creation. Much like classical painting it’s a completely different world for a contemporary person to access, especially if they weren’t raised with a classical education. I feel like I’m finally able to find solid ground amongst these greats through the study of painting, philosophy and mythology. It’s not longer a bewildering but beautiful and impressive chaos, but a dimension set parallel to time and space. And: These crazy people making these things against all odds, sacrificing normalcy and relatability repeatedly to sit alone and reflect out a mirror for the inhabitants of earth. It’s so wild. The Roch man a real modernist. His arps just sound like machines and war and cars and talking through wires and people finally flying. You can hear the death of the medieval mind. It’s not all technological salvation, but a loss of something parental and deeply tragic.

[@pjcpiano]

I'm glad that Rach felt the need to express himself in a neo romantic style. He was so good at it and apparently didn't feel the pressure to create something really outside the box like Prokofiev and some of his other contemporaries.

[@sandrobreus9147]

Id say Skriabin is a better example, they even studied together yet they are complete opposites.

[@pjcpiano]

@@sandrobreus9147 Scriabin is definitely an interesting example since he started off very romantic then branched off whereas Rach stayed romantic his entire career

[@NM34000]

Rach, huh, why not Scrib? And Prokov? Read his story before making assumptions and being slightly direspectful. Just sayong Pauli...

[@pjcpiano]

@@NM34000 Scriabin and Prokofiev are not romantic composers tho. Scriabin started pretty romantic but quickly became very experimental. Rach is the only one of his contemporaries that stayed romantic his whole career

[@verydifferentthought]

Can we agree Rachmaninoff and Bethoven has the best piano concertos?

[@amrarchives]

Tchaikovsky

[@adig2414]

Mozaft shits on all of them

[@wolfgangsbrother6118]

No swearing please?

[@TheNewslandian]

I like Moszkowski more than Beethoven tbh

[@brkbrkvjk]

Нечего себе, хронология?) И фотки?) Шикарно

[@brianvanderspuy4514]

Seems to my amateur ear that even at age 12 something of that Rachmaninoff sound was already there. And from there on it just got ever better. :-)

[@nenitsa.m]

You forgot the 1st Piano Concerto((( It was his first officially signed opus (op.1), he wrote it when he was 18 and he played it at his final piano exam (we don’t forget that he also graduated like composer and wrote for the final exam the opera “Aleko”. It is a good video, but it would be better if the interpretation was real, not MIDI, for the new listeners especially.

[@tomlee9534]

To be honest, it’s his choral music that does most for me. Bogoroditse Devo from his Vespers is awe inspiring.

[@Elijah24553]

I literally just got home from the Rachmaninoff festival/competition, so how fitting that this was posted today!

[@R08Tam]

So much work must have gone into creating this. Thank you so much.

[@lpv1984]

Latest classic. The second and third concert are the most favorite.

[@axyspianostudio]

1:45 wait wait wait wait- so youre telling me not _all_ of his pieces are written for 6 hands? :0

[@jaygatz4335]

The others were written for 8 hands.

[@andybea6352]

Some of the pieces, like the concertos, were likely the piano solo plus piano accompaniment (for the orchestral reduction).

[@NadaCakar]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so true

[@twanswagten]

The genius of Rachmaninoff is so great - I can't get hold of it any time I listen to his music and think about him how he would be in 2023. Would he still fear death?

[@edrage8679]

Looking for this. 8 years old and already brought the most intricate compositions.

[@snejpu2508]

Great job. Only the Elegie is missing in my opinion, but I know that everything couldn't be included. 🙂

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Scriabin please, take your time but don't miss it. Interesting video it will be.

[@sirtron7259]

he had a bit of a bach influence at the start there

[@konstantin1943]

Choice of pieces and portraits: W Sound quality: L Rachmaninoff: Absolute Genius Next composer: Scriabin?

[@87890-]

Best russian composer, Beautiful russian music

[@miguelfernandez5583]

He has some serius competition

[@romanleon76]

Wait a minute,the best russian composer is Tchaikovsky by farrrrr

[@87890-]

@@romanleon76 tchaikovsky is the fruit and construction of russian music, tchaikovsky is also regarded as the best russian composer

[@Bwv1046]

I mean Tchaikovsky is a better overall composer

[@nss4472]

​@@Bwv1046😩😱🤦‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[@EugeneKirpichov]

Holy shit, he wrote Suite for Two Pianos No.1 at 20 years old??? Jesus Christ, what the hell.

[@DavideDiNapoli]

Che bello, in mezzo a tanti video stupidi e inutile finalmente qualcosa di molto interessante , sono commosso ….bravo

[@dep7311]

Miss this channel. Been 5 years since I last visited this at a PC shop playing this channel's videos while playing league in order to calm me everytime teemo kills me...

[@Bozzigmupp]

You played league at a pc shop?

[@derekd.4156]

The king of the piano concerto!

[@ΚΑΙΤΗΚΟΛΟΚΑ]

Η7χρονη εγγνουλα μου με διδάσκει!!!!!

[@tomthenighttrain2869]

11 year old Rachmaninoff knew how to rock.

[@Hjex64]

Ah yes, he has 4 arms i see

[@nathanialbelliveau9389]

Man was he so gifted. Makes mozart look like a mere piano student

[@aahighknees]

At 11?!?! Am I the only one with my mind blown?

[@Moderrnclassic]

Hey, thank you so much for posting this video! Love it so much, Rach has definitely been a huge influence and inspiration on my self and my musical journey! Do you have a video posted of the 12 romances, Op. 21, V. Lilacs? Because your version is so much cleaner and pure than any other recordings I’ve heard (IMO).

[@Tinrout]

Мой земляк. Горжусь им

[@riddletime1247]

Он эмигрировал в США после прихода к власти Советского Союза. (I translated English to Russian, I am not a native speaker)

[@reMusicDelights2]

A simplest way to play Rachmaninoff is to buy another hand!👌

[@NelsonPinheirojr]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NxkoMxon]

Fr😂😂

[@mustafacetiner7172]

bro how this is posible he press 12 notes at the same time ?? rachmaninoff is mind blowing🤯

[@adrianborosa3560]

Sustain pedal

[@katttttt]

For instance at 1:30 this is impossible 😂

[@-Burb]

@@katttttt Definitely not. That part looks totally fine to play with the sustain pedal. There are some other moments like in “Easter” that I don’t understand unless it’s a duet though.

[@m1co294]

Possibly a duet piece

[@HighEffortName]

​@@katttttthe can reach a 13 the interval

[@chesscrater6331]

He is officially my favorite.

[@annaq6405]

Очень красиво !

[@veronikavart9651]

согласна)

[@eensio]

He was prodigy prodigy judging by what the 11-year-old wrote

[@gabewaller3999]

Thank you i wanted this

[@nishanthpadigar8631]

The Polka Italienne has a rather joyful feeling even though it's in a minor key...

[@zebruh2794]

Rachmaninoff inspires me to be just like him :)

[@malcolmdale9607]

Piano Concerto No 2. Greatest piece of music ever written

[@thejohnsweeney]

Haha yes! I have giant feet.

[@SanestBlueArchiveFan]

subjective

[@sxchen1268]

Very much recommend you guys listen to his piano concertos and sonatas

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The wonderfulness and greatness of Rachmaninoff transcends timeand space, and races

[@OM-sb2bd]

races?

[@Frederic_Francois_Chopin]

Races?! How racis...

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@Frederic_Francois_Chopin Look up the dictionary

[@Frederic_Francois_Chopin]

@@shin-i-chikozima No need to, your comment never made sense anyway.

[@chifuu_ren]

Mine favorite is liebensleid - kreisler (arr. Rachmaninoff)

[@csongorhajna5702]

The first notes left me not just speachless, but brainless. The WHAT ?!?!?!?

[@jidapalertatsawapol2955]

Thanks

[@minjichoe8599]

Piano piece in d minor at 11 is actually crazy 💀💀

[@ivtonk]

Мне нравится в исполнении Рахманинова Мендельсон "за прялкой"

[@LaurenDino]

Next: Stravinsky

[@michalpachla2212]

Thank you

[@creamy7406]

Please do scriabin next 🙏🏽

[@HectorGarcia-py4ck]

At the age of 27, Rachmaninoff composed "All by yourself" ( 2 mov. Piano concerto no. 2 ) for Celine Dion to sing it years later

[@matheushenrique4844]

I like that piano Concerto n3 op30’s name, it translate literally to “happy, but not much”

[@toddfarkman2177]

I love these symphonies on piano only. I can't find them elsewhere.

[@toddfarkman2177]

In particular allegro ma non troppo rachmaninoff OP 13, would love to play that on piano.

[@adrianaforero7956]

Romance in G major is so sweet!

[@agorrab9811]

I like polka italienne,fughetta,piano concerto,rhapsody on a theme of Paganini,symphonic dances.

[@Palermo.340]

Scriabin next!

[@BM28123]

Did the romance in A minor sound to anyone like Howl's Moving Castle?

[@musictop7630]

Yeees, I waited this!

[@СтепанСаакян-э1л]

truly one of the music ever made

[@ismaelcabrera1674]

Scriabin next, s'il vous plaît

[@emmu__]

16:40 12 keys are being pressed down, but he has 10 fingers. He’s an alien

[@playbot9237]

There's 13 keys that are pressed actually. He's not an alien, that is a symphony that was played, and it's meant to be played by an orchestra, not on a piano.

[@T1memachine]

Liszt:I bought the piano now I’m going to use it Rachmaninoff: I bought the whole piano now I’m going to control the whole piano and use it to its full power

[@charlesthomas5956]

You got the liszt one wrong. He is the same as rachmaninoff

[@imagod4796]

@@charlesthomas5956 Liszt is mostly easier than rachmaninoff atleast in my opinion

[@happypiano4810]

Alkan: I’m gonna use the whole piano, and make you realize you can’t control any of it.

[@charlesthomas5956]

@@happypiano4810 I Am a cRaZy mAn wItH PoWeRs

[@2174863]

⁠@@imagod4796Its the opposite for me what do you find more difficult about rachmaninoff’s pieces?

[@OziCastle]

Ah. my favourite composer

[@pogodny]

Mine favorites are prelude in c sharp minor and g minor, concertos and piano sonata no2 op36 from 11:46

[@mangomerkel2005]

Polka Italienne will be the piece being played when I recieve my High School Diploma in a few days :D

[@parkmiroon]

10:36 I played this 2 months ago. My teacher gave me this for the test. I passed that test!

[@rogiervk1]

Definitely my fourite composer!!🙌🏼

[@KMBAndBoeingLover514]

Favorite*

[@josephtardio1086]

It's interesting how the technology of two video games (Dance Dance Revolution & Guitar Hero) has made its way into Classical Music education. Watching this, you can visualize the intervals and hear the notes in your mind before they are played.

[@charlesthomas5956]

At 6:15 It says that rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2 was from 1900 not 1901

[@KMBAndBoeingLover514]

I thought of it: Rachmaninoff composed the beginning on December 31st,1899. And he kept on composing and he played this when the new century countdown hits 0. Basically the left hand roll part is where the countdown ends.

[@skandhaps8097]

Rachmaninoff grew third hand at the age of 15

[@thenoobman4544]

Shostakovich please 🙏

[@Aivanmaru]

Короче, более-менее осмысленные произведения он начал писать в 18. Легкая небрежность сохраняется до 33. А дальше начинает раскрываться гений.

[@duartevader2709]

He composed his first concerto at 18, its a massive work that truly desplays his genius, no idea why it isnt in the video, he already wrote meaningful works around that time

[@fartherbeyondschnider3465]

Each year his hands just keep getting bigger and bigger 😳

[@davidluck1678]

also, some of his greatest piano writing is embedded in the c. 80 songs for voice/piano that he wrote throughout his career..op. 4, 14, 21, 26, 34, 38.

[@demonative9945]

Damn what kind of tragic shit happened to this boy between 1891 and 1892 lmao

[@KMBAndBoeingLover514]

He finds himself in a coffin dead in his nightmare

[@taylorstrqfik]

Rachmaninoff is de lord of classical musicians

[@angellohector]

So basically Rachmaninoff in his last days created House music?

[@1973asdf]

amazing way to visualize

[@avecesar4244]

¿Un contrapunto con 11 años?¿Qué estudiaba este niño?

[@NichtWunderkind]

Bach, y la musica se estudiaba mejor antes

[@파도다]

Please Schumann🥺🥺 I really want it.....

[@beseemescavanger1403]

Finally!!! Very good Just a small detail the 6th note of etude tableaux op. 33 no. 6 is wrong Possibly the rach 4 has a small mistake but I'm not sure But other than that all is good (it seems to me)

[@dajepson]

The Vocalise trill is on the wrong note as well

[@EmdrGreg]

Wonderful

[@joepo_3090]

Scriabin!

[@cantthinkofausername6749]

11:45 where the hell did you get a midi like that from?? i've never been able to find a good computer-generated midi for the 1913 version. is there more where that came from?

[@owenbishop6544]

seriously! if you find out where i can get this please let me know

[@vishwakmusic9314]

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[@vishwakmusic9314]

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[@vishwakmusic9314]

​@@owenbishop6544 It's already on youtube

[@owenbishop6544]

@@vishwakmusic9314 that version is not midi generated, there’s lots of mistakes especially towards the end

[@litoboy5]

Great

[@jwilliams8210]

Nice! Some of SVR's unpublished works I had not heard...

[@ellybargmusic]

such a cool idea! would love to do this with some of my own work someday :)

[@KUYUNGMUHAMMADDANIELWASILATA]

Subhanallah. 4:32 It's so incredible Rachmaninoff in 22 years

[@seja098]

1:26 I didn't know Rachmaninoff had 8 fingers on his right hand

[@atadbitahistory9660]

You can do the bass notes with pedal then move both hands up while holding the pedal to play it ^^ I get what you mean though, he also had massive hands, that I, a pianist, am jealous of.