I love this piece and in my deepest and darkest piano dreams I’d be able to play it. 🙂 The prelude is organized into three main parts and a coda: The piece opens with a three note motif at fortissimo which introduces the grim C-sharp minor tonality that dominates the
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor.
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, is a music piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes, despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. Rachmaninoff himself premiered the piece in Moscow on February 10,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Disservice – Rachmaninoff Op.3 Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, No.2
Prelude in C-sharp minor (Russian: Прелюдия), Op. 3, No. 2, is one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most famous compositions. It is a ternary (ABA) prelude for piano in C-sharp minor, 62 bars long, and part of a set of five pieces entitled Morceaux de fantaisie.[1] Its first performance was by the
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