First Sunday Music - Rachmaninov

[HoosierHawk]

Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, friends, and allies as we remember them this Independence Day weekend.

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[C19fan]

Definately my favorite composer. Big influence on popular entertainment with his music used in various movies and his lovely melodies inspiring pop music.
He was a real music reactionary at his time with other composers turning their back on Romantic music and Western music traditon going back several centuries.
Sort of interesting his fan base keeps growing over the years.

[HoosierHawk]

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[spald]

You can listen at WGUC, Cincinnati. Right now, it's Sunday Baroque.

[C19fan]

I made this fan video of one of the Great Expectations, not the crappy American made one with Ethan Hawk and I hate America Pattrow, adaptations using Rachmaninoff as background music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tGObC—74

[HoosierHawk]

Added to Favorites. Thanks.

[HoosierHawk]

Great video! Thanks for sharing that.

[Sans-Culotte]

The 2nd Piano concerto also comprised the score for David Lean's classic film Brief Encounter.

[curmudgeonII]

Thank you.

[alfa6]

And part of the 2nd movement of the 2nd Piano showed up in Eric Carmen’s All By Myself!

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[sitetest]

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[colinhester]

Cinci bump (actually West Chester). Love Sunday Baroque.....C

[SaveTheChief]

The Second Symphony is one of the greatest treasures of classical music. Rachmaninov outdid himself here.

[spald]

Butler County Bump right back atcha, Colin.

[Bahbah]

Thanks so much.

Listening and enjoying now.

[Publius]

Post a link to the Cello Sonata, which is contemporaneous with the 2nd Symphony. The entire piece is magnificent.

[JoeProBono]

THNX!!

[colinhester]

Ever listen to WDPR (88.1) out of Dayton? I like it better than WGUC......C

[ichabod1]

Love him, love his music. The second and third piano concertos are great, but don’t leave out the first.

Of all his music, it is the Trio Elegiaque #2 that makes my heart feel like it stops beating and makes it hard to breathe.

[ichabod1]

Can’t leave out Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Not the greatest movie ever made, but such sweet, sweet music, with the Variations on a theme by Paganini prominently featured. It makes me want to cry too. I used to be romantic, and Rachi reminds me too much of the times I loved and lost. I don’t listen to him too much any more... too much pathos... I can’t take it. But I LOOVE that dark Russian soul so very much. Sniff...