SURFACE HARMONIES - Rachmaninoff Prelude in G# minor Op. 32 no. 12 - Analysis

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[@verslaflamme2781]

I love your analysis , i get so inspired to write my own music when you break down Rachs and Scriabins music. Please make more analysis on Scriabin and Rach ❤️

[@SonataSecrets]

Both are in the pipeline actually!

[@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5]

@@SonataSecrets can you please do one on the entire Rachmaninoff second sonata?

[@Erevos9]

Thank you for this video. Words lack the essence needed to capture the beauty of this piece...

[@sadudas11]

The first concert I ever went to was Rachmaninoffs 3rd piano concerto and she played this as an encore. I had learned some of his preludes before but I had never heard this one. I’ve since developed a much deeper appreciation for this piece

[@theozuretti6091]

I like how the dramatic middle section makes the theme go lower when it returns, it's so menacing !

[@Astronist]

You make it look so easy. But I know it's not. Another five years practice required. That lovely big Em chord near the end sends a shiver down my spine every time!

[@blankname4716]

Interesting comment about shimmering waters. Always made me think of the path of a leaf in the wind considering how it starts quiet and picks up for a moment only to settle again.

[@dfsimon]

Your analysis helps me understand why I love Rachmaninoff's music so much.

[@finaxx1261]

wow! very intresting, i love the new idea of filming the keyboard, very usefull!

[@HotRatsAndTheStooges]

I could watch your videos all day. Would LOVE to see you delve into some of Rach's Etudes Tableaux. I feel you've elucidated things that have evaded my perception, even though I've listened to these pieces hundreds of times.

[@theRoxII]

Thank you for this analysis series! Please keep going!

[@SonataSecrets]

I will do a couple of more preludes! :)

[@myhumbleopinion1036]

I think this is my favorite piece of his, it sounds like a struggle or maybe it's the zany qualities it possesses or maybe it's the shimmering RH over the sad LH melody. Very good rendition at the end.

[@jimbrady3538]

Well said. Like the human condition excitement on the surface but not much progression. The inner voices make the interest. So well dissected and played. Thank you

[@lufebr]

Wonderful analysis and performance! I'm polishing this piece and you really inspired me! Thank you so much!

[@SonataSecrets]

Thank you, glad to hear it!

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[@SonataSecrets]

Happy to hear it, welcome to the channel!

[@anteb.k.8396]

Great channel! I played this piece for years. Just watch the note on 5:50, it should still be f double sharp (g) rather than f sharp in that chord. A common mistake because it also sounds good, but Rachmaninoff makes it more dramatic with the f double sharp

[@SonataSecrets]

hehe you're right it should be fx! Someone else commented on this as well, I was too careless in my learning there.

[@aevillarreal]

Great analysis and video as always. Keep it up!

[@SonataSecrets]

Thanks!

[@Bigblackpiano]

This was really enjoyable and thanks for making such a well thought out video...very enjoyable and educational as well! I love this prelude and now I understand it more🎵🙏

[@SonataSecrets]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it :)

[@fhl60]

Thank you for sharing!!

[@bassgoatmusic]

Love it! But I think there is still an F double sharp at 5:58 making it B augmented!

[@SonataSecrets]

Ouch, this is embarassing, you are absolutely right it should be Fx! I just learned it too quickly... (it's still a mediant at root at least though)

[@bassgoatmusic]

@@SonataSecrets no worries at all, and I really enjoyed your interpretation!

[@jimbrady3538]

Impressive ears!

[@michaelbrown192]

I have a question, the arpeggio in both hands starting from 12:28: you seem to be playing the E with the left hand at the exactly same time as the first note of the right hand. Is this correct? I always thought that you need to play all the notes in this arpeggio in succession...

[@carmenviderasmolina2559]

Me parece explendido!lástima que la traducción al Español no me funciona.Gran pianista, y magnífica la explicación sobre el analisis de la obra..

[@ianhaines2873]

Very good playing ✅

[@renatoterzo2111]

Hi good morning. I think what this prelude can be compared to the initial approach of the concert study by Liszt Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs).

[@johnnynoirman]

You have an amazing channel.

[@paules3437]

I meant to add that I have yet to find a recording of this that I like. Any recommendations?

[@mangomerkel2005]

Lugansky and Horowitz. Also mine, if you want to.

[@Karolusio1995]

I really like this video, can You make an analysis of Rachmaninov Vespers? 😊

[@Powerslider]

Thank you again Henrik! Your selection of pieces really does it for me. By the way, is this Rach piece doable with small-ish hands? (a bit more than an octave)

[@SonataSecrets]

Then you have very good taste ;) In general Rachmaninoff can be hard on small hands, I feel myself it would be easier to play certain passages with hands in Rachmaninoff's own size (he could apparently reach C-G), and I have 'only' comfortable C-E. But I suppose this prelude is not that impossible. A lot of the big chords you should roll anyway. The "fanfare" is the hardest part I think, for the downward 16th movement in LH, so maybe look at that before deciding.

[@amnbvcxz8650]

@@SonataSecretsi can play comfortably only an augmented sixth. Can stretch my hands to reach an octave at slow/middle tempo. I played prelude in c# min & b min in the past, but made some mistakes in fast tempo & had to drop some octaves. Discouraging :/

[@ME-lf7by]

Amazing sounds coming from that piano.. do you play any concerts in Sweden? Would really like to see a live performance of these great pieces you play here.

[@samaritan29]

very nice analysis on this haunting, melancholic and poignant (which fits rachmaninoff's temperament nicely) prelude, i would love to see analysis on the op 32 no 4 or the last of the op32 in dflat major. BTW i think there is an error in the title (should be no 12 not 2...?)

[@SonataSecrets]

Oops, corrected, thanks for noticing! I haven't played those two preludes unfortunately, but will do no 10 from op 32 at least!

[@growingpianists]

Wonderful video! Inspiring for some composition ideas too! ❤Thank you!

[@paules3437]

I have messed with this prelude for decades. As soon as I master Granados' "El Pelele" I'm gonna tackle Rach again.

[@chriscamp6971]

Kind of irrelevant, but I liked your analysis of Chopin's Prelude in E minor. I love that piece, it was the first piece by Chopin that I had learned

[@SonataSecrets]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! It's one of the best performing videos on the channel actually.

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Welcome to the channel!

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Which piano it is?

[@SonataSecrets]

It's an old German Rönisch!

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[@pianoworld233]

Could you do an analysis about chopin's nocturne in g minor op.37 no.1?

[@sergioavalos2256]

Please make analysis on Leos Janacek y Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

[@pakko89]

Some spanish influence here?

[@HomeCookgabriele]

MAN, you skipped the analyse of the hardest progression modulations, why? and just giving the name to chords is not a harmonic hanalyse. you should analyse progressions modulation in the deep with perns chords etc... this can be done even for a 5 years kid. and that is not a modulastion to B major..its a III of G shrp still a grade most common use to create variations the the 4+4 sentence part. You understand few things of this prelude.. 7:44 man some scales? that is a hell Hard progression.. lol

[@matthewsouthwell]

Lol be quiet. You're so ungrateful.

[@maleficfig68]

So good! Thank you for the analysis! Do you think you’ll ever do some Bortkiewicz like his prelude op. 33 no. 8?

[@SonataSecrets]

I was not familiar with Bortkiewicz before so thanks for bringing him to my attention. Sounds lovely!