Rachmaninoff plays Lilacs Op. 21 No.5

[@therainforest4314]

So dreamy, so exquisitely beautiful. :)

[@tonytalks9070]

Make a 10 hour loop for this please. This is too beautiful to be played once!

[@-peyat]

there IS a loop function on youtube!

[@tonytalks9070]

@@-peyat where so please show me!

[@-peyat]

@@tonytalks9070 right click on the screen. it should pop up and then you click it.

[@terryvaughn677]

I agree, when I first heard it, I listened to it endlessly

[@Highinsight7]

my favorite pianist... of them all....

[@tiggywinkle20]

This is just so beautiful. Rachmaninoff supreme. I wish Van Cliburn had recorded it. I love this so much. Thank you.🙏🇬🇧🎹

[@НадеждаАфанасьева-и2н]

По утру, на заре, по росистой траве ; Я пойду свежим утром дышать ! И в душистую сень, где струится сирень Я пойду своё счастье искать. В жизни счастье одно мне найти суждено и то счастье в сирени живёт ! На зелёных ветвях, на душистых кистях моё бедное счастье цветёт !

[@amyssu-huiwu6796]

Beautiful!

[@mariolongo7369]

Wonderful!

[@wirt1002]

thx for this peace

[@서은영-m1c]

아름다운 피아노 선율 잘 듣고 갑니다....

[@paulleech2283]

warm wind, in aromatic blossom.................elegiac ...................wonderful ; the last piece he recorded ?

[@alanpotter8680]

I need proof that this was performed by Rachmaninoff himself. The quality of the recording is so 2000s.. No audio engineer can resolve it to such clarities without pure sorcery.

[@IanEunchanKim]

The recorded roll of Rachmaninoff’s was replayed recently by a piano. Something like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ3HfnSZf5WKaJY

[@polyphoniac]

What you're hearing is an Ampico piano roll cut by Rachmaninoff and played on a Bösendorfer reproducing piano by means of a playback mechanism developed by former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Wayne Stahnke. Stahnke has digitally recorded two CDs of such restorations of Rachmaninoff's piano roll performances, one devoted to original compositions, the other to works by other composers.

[@EN-yc4fw]

Невероятная красота. Невероятный СВР и как композитор, и, безусловно, как исполнитель. Как вообще такое в голове можно родить, носить, а потом так воплотить?... А ведь как все борщи кушал, тапочки носил, наверное...Слава Богу, что был, жил, записал и оставил.

[@ПётрПетрович-э8ы]

Вот только тапочки он называл так - домашние туфли :)

[@sanjastankovicmusic]

Very interesting piece. Love this ☺😊🤗

[@jojobeanz2981]

Is there a guitar arrangement for this piece? I think it could work quite nicely but I’m not smart enough to figure it out.

[@gloubilo132]

grand master don't know vanity and arrogance and their talent is as big as their modesty

[@789armstrong]

On another level.

[@zoink5484]

spotted

[@умамия]

Божественно!!!!!

[@chita1205]

consigo sentir os lilases exalando o seu perfume na brisa suave

[@eljapawlowna7703]

❤❤

[@penniesfromheaven9724]

Alexander Malofeev (Russia) just beautifully performed this a few months ago. Exquisite!!!!

[@paoloantunes1283]

found a GEM

[@wtmgad7630uqxhk]

リストの森のざわめき、とよく似た曲ですね💧

[@НадеждаАфанасьева-и2н]

*СИРЕНЬ* фортепианная обработка романса на ст. Е.Бекетовой "Сирень" ! Исполняет автор Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов !

[@kasyapa]

Lovely piano roll. Tempo seems a bit slow for SVR.

[@dorfmanjones]

Possibly the most successful piano roll ever made.

[@josephslotnick4516]

I hear Debussy in this piece at places.

[@nickarteaga175]

Interesting considering Rachmaninoff was not very fond of Debussy’s music.

[@misschocoholic82]

@@nickarteaga175 really i didnt know that. Did he actually say he like Debussy's music?

[@Bampaloudu64]

@@misschocoholic82 Well, I personally never saw any commentary from Rachmaninoff about Debussy's music. I think he meant that there is only one recording of Rachmaninov playing Cakewalk, so maybe he didn't liked to play Debussy.

[@DAVEDIKIAN]

@@Bampaloudu64 In an interview he declared Debussy was "a genuis" even he had difficulties to understand Debussy's late works..Though he 's often played "Suite Bergamasque" "For the piano suite" "Jardins sous la pluie" and, of course , Chidren's corner...

[@Bampaloudu64]

@@DAVEDIKIAN I had never heard of that ! Thanks for the anecdote.

[@MrSOLOPIANIST]

As much as we would all love this to played by Rachmaninov There's no way. The sound quality is just too high. But it would be fascinating to know who actually did play this. Because it is so exquisitely played. Can someone not figure out exactly who played this???

[@gustavschmidt3960]

It's no recording of rachmaninoff, but of a piano roll made by him. He was dead when this was recorded but it's his playing.

[@MrSOLOPIANIST]

@@gustavschmidt3960 seriously??

[@gustavschmidt3960]

@@MrSOLOPIANIST Yes, back when there was no audio recording piano rolls were a way to preserve the playing of people. Basically they played on a piano, which "saved" each hammer stroke on a piece of paper, which then could be played back by the piano afterwards. Rachmaninoff produced some, but I also remember my music teacher showing us a recording of mazeppa, played by a student of liszt. Sadly that is about as far as this goes back. I don't think we have piano rolls by Liszt himself for example.

[@MrSOLOPIANIST]

@gustavschmidt3960 fascinating. Thankyou so much for taking the time to reply. A while back I listened to piano roll of DEBUSSY playing his own music. Back in 1911 I think. Round about then. It was incredible to think it was THE MAN himself. Playing all those years ago

[@MrSOLOPIANIST]

@gustavschmidt3960 fascinating. Thankyou so much for taking the time to reply. A while back I listened to piano roll of DEBUSSY playing his own music. Back in 1911 I think. Round about then. It was incredible to think it was THE MAN himself. Playing all those years ago

[@alexandrchigirev9967]

Это компьютерная реставрация записи игры С.В. на механическом пианино

[@markfreedman2470]

I’m sorry but it does not seem possible that Rachmaninoff was playing his own music in this recording. Rachmaninoff passed away in 1943. The level of audio recording quality at that time was primitive compared to today. Were you able to extract using some form of highly advanced digital technology the actual sounds of the original recording off of a 78 RPM master eliminating all audible distortions?? (Magnetic tape did not even exist at that time) If you did my hat is off to you. If not this is a hoax. Please let me know.😊

[@johnrees690]

It’s possible it was from a piano roll and recorded on a piano playing the roll.

[@markfreedman2470]

@@johnrees690 Good comment however, Player piano player rolls did not have any dynamics between loud and soft notes. Yes! I’m that old. I Played around with the real thing when I was a kid.

[@darkstuff6666]

@@markfreedman2470 accounting to wikipedia this actually one of his last recording, recording on February 26, 1942

[@Mike-uk3vl]

@@markfreedman2470 Reproducing Piano Rolls do have the dynamics recorded. Rachmaninov recorded Lilacs for the Ampico system (q v), so this could be an audio recording of an Ampico piano though I think that it's an accoustic one made not long before he died in 1943.

[@markfreedman2470]

@@Mike-uk3vl understood. Wishful thinking. I am intimately familiar with the recording technology of tnat period. There is an excellent article in Wikipedia regarding the evolution of magnetic tape technology. Definitely worth the read. judging by the comments about the quality of Ampico Player piano design. If there was a current digital or current high-quality analog recordings done recently, I.E. in the last 30 years or so of an Rachmoninof Ampico roll. I could believe it. The best we could do in 1942 would have been direct disk recording. At that time the technology was very primitive.

[@vitaliykarpinskiy446]

"Сирень" - это лирика! Прекрасная вещь, написанная в высоком диапазоне преимущественно. Я сам её люблю. Её надо с радостью, с надеждой исполнять. Нельзя так безнадёжно, с такой печалью, какой-то прямо безысходностью. Но... конечно: он столько жил вдали от родины. Может быть он бы и не смог так её исполнить. Он многие свои вещи исполняет с такой печалью и безысходностью, без надежды.

[@maniama56]

Вам не приходило в голову, что он лучше знает, как исполнять?

[@БорисШалагінов]

@@maniama56 Как только вещь написана, она отделяется от автора и начинает жить собственной жизнью. Столько уже написано о несогласии с авторским (!!) толкованием опер Вагнера, "Фауста" Гёте, "Улисса" Джойса...

[@maniama56]

@@БорисШалагінов иногда толкователей в такие дебри заносит. Несколько лет тому назад посмотрели богомоловских "Трёх сестер" в МХТ, до конца досидели только потому, что было любопытно, как далеко он зайдет, вот Антон Павлович бы удивился! А мы решили больше в драму не ходить (...

[@farflungtrio6784]

really? beautifully playing but from the 1930s?...

[@Roescoe]

The recording is not, but the reproduction is from a Rach recording.

[@vitaliykarpinskiy446]

Надо с большей жизнью исполнять. И выделять больше кое-что, ля-бемоль последнюю надо более колоритно, по-рахманиновски как глубокий бас выделить!! И более равномерно по ритму, иначе звучит без развития, без движения от начала к концу и получается не хватает жизни, какие-то остановки..

[@venus4317]

Дак это не рахманинов исполняет.. Уж больно качество записи хорошее... Это не 20 век..

[@rockster34]

This is not Rach playing.

[@rararalara]

I agree with you.

[@vitaliykarpinskiy446]

Слишком нервозно исполняет Сергей Васильевич. Не хватает умиротворённости. Порывы какие-то. Надо спокойнее!

[@ՀայկՍեւոյան-ձ9ծ]

Извините пожалуйста, но вы куда а он ?

[@ciprianoderore3938]

RACHMANNINOV APART FROM BEING A GREAT COMPOSER, HE WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL PIANIST