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Rachmaninov, Sergej 1th symphony 4th mvt. Allegro Con Fuoco

October 18, 2008 at 6:34 PM

Today I had a lot of work for the stills for my new Youtube-video. You often hear the 2th syphony of Rachmaninov or Symphonic Dances (I have played them both), but seldom his 1th or 3th symphony. His 4th Movement of his 1th Symphony is funny with the windwoods intro. I got associations of Boris Jeltsin conducting a military orchestra. He also use the flat tam tam , 4 times at the end. During this Russian musicpiece I felt the big country of Russia, so I have googled a lot of TransSiberian images from the beginning of the railway in Moskou till the end of the railway in Vladiwostok at the end after 9288 kilometers. 6 Hours of work and here my stills-impression of this music. I had to cut out a little part from the middle because I only get 10 minutes from Youtube. I think a good reason to play this 1th symphony of Rachmaninov more often:

Agree.And also his 2 piano trios, the
cello sonata and the 2 short early string
quartets.