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Post Subject: They do not make them like this anymore.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/5/2007
Yesterday the WHRB broadcasted the Rachmaninoff’ conducting from 30s and 40s and they end up the programs with the celebrated 1939 Ormandy/Philadelphia performances of Rachmaninoff’ Third Concerto As many times I heard Rachmaninoff’ played the peace it always the last movement that make Rachmaninoff’ own play way beyond anybody else playing this concert.
There is practically nothing “going on” in the mid of the third movement. I know perhaps over a hundred different interpretations of the work and all of pianist plays the middle of the last movement as like “nothing is happening “in there. They are crashing thought the notes, and although the music is wonderful but it has little particular meaning on context of the pieces. With Rachmaninoff’ at piano it all suddenly makes since. The notes and phrases become waves of energy that Rachmaninoff’ (and Philadelphia SO) actually USE for something more then juts sound creations….
So, talking about that “little touch”… the way in winch Rachmaninoff’ does his touch is “different”. I’m not big fun of Rachmaninoff’ play his own second movement but in the mid of the last movement he stuffs his phrases with some very odd hallucinogenic eminence. It is not about the way how hit his key but about some very fine pattern in witch the notes come together. These expressed meanings of transition between the notes in context of the entire work make the mid of the last movements of the Third Concerto so different…. Sure, no one make them anymore able to play like this…Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site