Best Music You've Heard Recently Thread

Tom155 · Apr 20, 2015

I'll start. Just found this piece by the Rachman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJpJ8REjvqo

At its 1897 premiere, Rachmaninoff's first symphony, though now considered a significant achievement, was derided by contemporary critics.[5] Compounded by problems in his personal life, Rachmaninoff fell into a depression that lasted for several years.
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The opening movement begins with a series of bell-like tollings on the piano that build tension, eventually climaxing in the introduction of the main theme. In this first section, the orchestra carries the Russian-character melody while the piano makes an accompaniment made of rapid oscillating arpeggios. After the statement of the long first theme, a quicker transition follows until the lyrical second theme, in E flat major, is presented.
The agitated and unstable development borrows motives from both themes changing keys very often and giving the melody to different instruments while a new musical idea is slowly formed. The music builds in a gradual climax as if the first bars were to be repeated, but in the recapitulation the theme is presented as unique to the first statement.
While the orchestra restates the first theme, the piano, that in the other occasion had an accompaniment role, now plays the march-like theme that had been halfly presented in the development, thus making a considerable readjustment in the exposition, as the main theme, played by the orchestra has become an accompaniment. This is followed by a piano solo, which leads into a descending chromatic passage and concluding with an eerie horn solo. From here the last minutes of the movement are placid until drawn into the agitated coda, and the movement ends in C minor fortissimo.
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http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_%28Rachmaninoff%29

Gongshaman · Apr 21, 2015

Not new music to me, if fact I'm quite familiar with the piece but I only recently discovered this particular performance. Maybe the best rendition of Zoltán Kodály's version of this Bartok classic I've ever heard. Damn can this woman play the fiddle... sha-wing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZt6ITdSto

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