RELENTLESS RHYTHMS - Rachmaninoff Prelude in B flat minor, Op. 32 no. 2 - Analysis

[@ethancolmancomposer]

Thank you for this! Rachmaninov looks so scary in sheet music. It sounds so beautiful though.

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I honestly think this channel is underrated... continue the good work !

[@eqon1234]

me too! that's why I suggest it to all my friends!

[@Eindebaas]

On his birthday, nice touch. Great analysis, much appreciated!

[@TJtheDJay]

I really feel like this channel has helped to improve my own playing. Especially since for some time I haven’t been able to afford lessons.

[@SonataSecrets]

I'm so happy to hear that! :)

[@Cyzzyx]

As an amature pianist, I look to your videos both when I want to find inspiration on what I want to learn next aswell as tips musically and technically to make it sound better. I greatly appriciate what you do as it have helped me learn pieces that I previously felt beyond me. A pair Rachmaninov preludes included. This one feels like it is still out of reach, but its always great fun watching your analysis anyway. Greetings from Gävle!

[@SonataSecrets]

Great to hear from you Gävle! :) This one is quite hard, and in a way that it maybe doesnt seem that way until you look closer, scattered chords and multiple voices in each hand etc...

[@dinmamma2604]

My favourite prelude from Rachmaninoff. Very bleak, and melancholic, "vemod" would be the best term in swedish for it. Beautiful, and seemingly simple, yet much more technically challenging to play than one would think. Great analysis! Hälsningar från Piteå!

[@deboraharmstrong4385]

Thank you for the demonstration, I am learning this prelude, and a couple of others. I like to play the last page with the scrumptious chords slightly slower, it's very nostalgic, of days that are no more. I look forward to more of your broadcasts.

[@ericrakestraw664]

This prelude reminds me of the Bach prelude in the same key from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier. Both pieces develop a short motif almost obsessively, then build to a climax and recede into a calm ending. Both pieces also create dissonant harmonies through the use of suspensions.

[@mmitchamharding]

Thanks for the great explanation and analysation, this is probably my favourite prelude at the moment :) Would love to see f sharp minor or d minor prelude on this chanel

[@sean8470]

I enjoy your videos you have a very approachable style which is refreshing keep up the good work

[@BrassicaRappa]

Amazing breakdown! I'll be coming back to this several times as I work through this, thanks so much!

[@petorstevons3968]

Thankyou! This is my favorite prelude!

[@vishtayeganeh174]

Could you please make analysis for momento musical no. 4 of Rakhmaninov ?

[@MotifMusicStudios]

What a wonderful video! Thank you for sharing your time and talent with us!

[@abscb95]

Thank you for this! One of my favourite pieces!

[@ciararespect4296]

Lovely to know all this theory .I just try to play from the notes and even guess the rhythm sometimes just by listening to the music Abit slower . I know a long winded way to learn but I need a teacher which I can't afford

[@mohammadbayazid5064]

Rachmaninov is a great composer

[@doctorstrange2736]

James Horner Kaleidoscope of Mathematics from A beautiful mind has echoes of this theme.

[@sll0th511]

one of my favorites from Rachmaninoff, can you do one on Chopin's etude op. 25 no. 9

[@Jack-iv7dz]

Chopin op 48 no 2?

[@avivgeller7767]

pls do rachmaninoff sonata no. 2

[@skillbomb8823]

Can you maybe do a video on op 32 no.3

[@Richie276]

Isn’t the last bar wrong? There is the wrong clef in the right hand…

[@SonataSecrets]

Yes, in my printed version it is a treble clef for that chord so I didn't notice it in this score.

[@rhys8878]

op 8 no 12..?

[@jackdeago3639]

Lessons about how to compose classical music