Rachmaninoff 9 Études-Tableaux, Op. 39, complete, Orion Weiss, piano скачать в хорошем качестве

Rachmaninoff 9 Études-Tableaux, Op. 39, complete, Orion Weiss, piano

Video by Zac James Nicholson Sound by Silas Brown Merkin Hall, NYC The Nine Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 are the last pieces Rachmaninoff wrote before escaping Russia in 1917. They are among his darkest works: ominous, wild, tumultuous and terrifying. In them, one can hear the violence of WWI and the October Revolution; the Bolshevik soldiers that occupied his home and their fires that engulfed his family’s estate; marching footsteps, trains, frantic sleigh rides, winter landscapes. Above all, one hears his emotional state: Rachmaninoff was always more interested in the narrative of emotions than in landscapes or dramatic action. Written right before he fled his country and plunged into lifelong exile, his uncertainty and anxiety run through the work like a constant thread. But even more prominently, one hears his heartbreak, in dialogue with his courage. The music is ultimately redeemed and exalted by the drive to persevere that enabled Rachmaninoff to escape such desperate circumstances. For me, Op. 39 has been an inspiration over these last few years, a beacon as I navigated through these troubling times, and an antidote to the worst of the fear and uncertainty. I believe this set of evocative etudes is essential music for all of us now, music of determination and perseverance, and with its final etude’s joyful ending, a triumphant message of hope.