MARCHING MENACE - Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor Op. 23 no. 5

MARCHING MENACE - Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor Op. 23 no. 5 - Analysis

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Insisting marching rhythms, crazy register changes and raw harmonies - this is the Rock'n'roll of classical music! Pianist Henrik Kilhamn goes through the piece with an analytical mindset.
0:00 Introduciton
0:40 Analysis
7:54 Middle section
13:08 Recap
Corrections
At 2:35 what is marked "Cm6 / iv6" should rather be "Am7-5 / iio7 (2nd inversion)".
At 6:28 it should say "G harmonic minor" and not melodic.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 no. 5: Alla marcia
📄 Score: A. Gutheil, first edition (1904), imslp.org
Emoji artwork provided by JoyPixels, joypixels.com

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@theoperapianist 3 жыл бұрын

Why did KZfaq algorithms not showed me this channel before??! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with the world!

@buttercubbb1996 3 жыл бұрын

your analysis is always inspiring and giving me more ideas about this piece. Thanks!!!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@javmbz_schlithler Жыл бұрын

This prelude is even more beautiful than I remembered. I hope I can play it someday.

@landdon24 3 жыл бұрын

I wish youtube and this guy were around when I did Music Theory back in college lol.

@PDN11141 3 жыл бұрын

Henrik Wow! One minute listening to your Keith Jarrett interpretation- The Koln Concert and now Rachmanioff.... Your love for music does shine through.. I feel lucky to be listening to you.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy you like it :)

@caterscarrots3407 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, this prelude is one of my favorites and is the only one so far that I've tried to arrange. I've been trying to arrange this one for orchestra as that seems most appropriate.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

yes it's very orchestral writing!

@garysandiego 3 жыл бұрын

Rachmaninoff’s solo piano works always seem (to me, at least) to be transcribing an orchestral work that’s playing around in his mind. Same goes for Chopin.

@wiliamfmz14 3 жыл бұрын

its AWESOME How you divide each section and explain for us, thank you so much

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

It's my pleasure!

@pdxxx97266 7 күн бұрын

Thanks for the in-depth analysis! I always thought this was just a show-off piece with the pianist banging the living daylights out of the piano. Now, whenever I hear anyone play it, I have a newfound appreciation and understanding of what to listen for. Thank you!😘👍

@1blalalalala 2 жыл бұрын

His piano concerto No 2 is absolutely amazing beautiful, I true master of emotions. I enjoy listen to your analyzes.

@SonataSecrets 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I know, Rach 2 is tremendous.

@Pixeliarmus 3 жыл бұрын

Even though I've listened to this piece countless times, I didn't get bored a second watching and listening you talking about it the entire video. Subbed immediately.

@ciel777_ 3 жыл бұрын

Always love your analyses on different pieces. Keep up the good work!

@verslaflamme2781 3 жыл бұрын

Notification that you uploaded this video made my day much better, thank you 🖤

@flygandedraken3820 2 жыл бұрын

Jag har just upptäckt din kanal - precis vad jag har önskat! Genomgång och analys av musiken, kombinerat med intressanta fakta, otroligt trevligt presenterat. Man känner din genuina musikglädje genom skärmen. Och så är du svensk dessutom! Jag hittade dig genom din podd på Spotify när jag letade efter inspelningar av Tchaijkovskijs Barcarolle (som jag håller på att lära in). Tack för en ambitiös och rolig kanal! Nu har jag alltid något att göra på sysslolösa stunder :)

@luckylicks3497 3 жыл бұрын

I have recently found my way to this channel - so glad that I did!

@bayareapianist Жыл бұрын

Your description of this piece is very rich and I enjoyed it a lot. In fact one of the best in YT. I have always wanted to play this piece since I was a kid, but I was afraid to get lost. I think I can start playing it now thank you :)

@aliediskasoglu7998 3 жыл бұрын

You are a great pianist and KZfaqr, Henrik. I really enjoy your videos, performances, and unique analysis of pieces. And I admire a lot the effort you put into them. You definitely deserve more views and subscribers. Keep it up! 👌

@lecheconcolacao6654 11 ай бұрын

Your reviews always feel as if i'm redescovering the piece from a new point of view that makes it absolutely more interesting and beautiful. I can't find the words to thank you for all the knowledge you brought to me.

@babawawayoyo 2 жыл бұрын

This the most amazing, profound thing I have ever seen. I couldn't stop watching!!!

@Gbdevaux 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I’m currently learning a few basic classical pieces Aurally, and this video is very clear with this audio. Have a good evening/morning!

@cammackshepler4990 3 жыл бұрын

Henrik, I just stumbled across your channel today and my only complaint is that I didn't find it sooner! I'm a beginner pianist and these videos are a big help. Please keep it up!

@danielbutts986 3 жыл бұрын

i love how happy you are talking about/analyzing this piece! i’d love to see you do this with other pieces!!!! you just got a new subscriber :D

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel!

@SpaghettiToaster 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I just recently discovered your channel, as it seems to be fairly new, but it’s so good! Finally a channel that does high-quality analysis in an enjoyable format. All other channels I know only cover the most surface-level aspects of a piece and shy away from real harmonic and counterpuntal analysis, or are simply videos of college lectures where often the music isn't even played and no visual aids are given. Of those that do, all channels i know seem to have given up after only one or two videos, and all of those are limited to Bach. Your videos are truly a godsend. Do you take requests for pieces to analyze in the future? Perhaps as a patreon reward? There is some extremely unknown repertoire that, judging from your current videos, I feel you’d enjoy a lot and that I think would make for some fascinating analysis.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm so happy to hear that! :) I actually do have it as a patreon reward, on the "Concerto" level! You can also leave a request anyway and see if you're lucky... I enjoy looking up new music that people are suggesting.

@SpaghettiToaster 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets Cool, I'll make sure to give some support on patreon, though not sure if I can afford the concerto level! At any rate, even if you don't decide to make a video on it, if I judge your musical tastes correctly, I believe you will enjoy this collection of piano pieces as much as I do (especially their amazing use of harmony, which blends influences from Scriabin, Debussy, Delius, Rachmaninoff and Reger into a completely unique and magical idiom): kzfaq.info/sun/PLzcqFEjxjOtsE3Q4wLThfVWcvelWH8ZhU If you do, I'm sure you will also immensely enjoy the rest of the composer's music (including the piece from the set not uploaded by invertedninthchord but included on the same album), including some masterful chamber and orchestral music, as well as hundreds of songs. It is my belief that this is by far the most unjustly forgotten romantic composer (considering that Medtner, incidentally another prime candidate for analysis, is already entering the mainstream). I'd love to hear what you think! Keep up the great work, looking forward to more videos!

@SpaghettiToaster 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets So, do you like it? :)

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! That's interesting music, as you say one can hear all sorts of influences but it's still original. Maybe pushing the chromaticism slightly too much for my taste actually, so I liked the first piece. But it's great to know about, and I will check him out some more definately!

@danielsumlin6409 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos! I watch everyone as soon as its posted, I really appreciate the effort you put in! Thank you for being you and I hope you're doing well :)

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Daniel! Appreciate you liking my posts on facebook as well :)

@HaliPuppeh 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite Rachmaninoff Preludes. Thank you for this

@gloriamosure9184 3 жыл бұрын

I Played this many years ago, but it's nice to have it analyzed and I'll now study it!

@indritgjoka9492 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing detailed analyse. But the way how naturally you play in piano it makes more enjoyable. This is professionalism. This is first video I watched from you and I just subscribed the channel now. Well done 👏

@cherylrwhiteheadpiano9120 3 жыл бұрын

Glorious analysis! Thank you so much!

@michaelsmith697 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting analysis!! What a brilliant work!

@Narragorth 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I will never be able to play it by myself, but as for a composer, it is really useful information about harmony, piece structure etc. So I appreciate this sort of analysis very much and ask you even more of it if you can and where you can!

@peterbrenton410 Жыл бұрын

Super analysis and you make it look easy..So difficult to keep a relaxed hand especially in the chord shifts and descending octave passages

@sergiosolispinson6058 3 жыл бұрын

Great analysis! I’ve been playing this piece for almost 15 years now, revisiting from time to time, but these are really very good hints to go back to the piece with new ideas! Love the channel, thanks!!!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

One can always find new things in great music like this. Thanks!

@heavypiano 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely analysis. Thanks for creating and sharing.

@adamsmith7058 3 жыл бұрын

This piece always put me in mind of 30's Errol Fynn movies, such as the classic 1938 Robin Hood. Great analysis.

@Powerslider 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this fantastic video! Your channel is taking off! And rightfully so, you're nailing all the right pieces (IMHO).

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, apparently I've managed to hit a few right notes lately :)

@Eric59541 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video and super instructive. Thanks!

@AnaPaula-np5rq 3 жыл бұрын

Min favorit av Rachmaninoff. Bra video♥️. Bravo 👏

@sian40 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Some additional things I found. In the coda near the end, the base line bE D G resembles the open chords of his prelude in c# minor. And after that in the ending march, I really really like the augmented sixth!

@davidmd9571 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the 18 min of pure pleasure. Rach’s genius, a reason why we can be optimistic about human greatness and a universal community, hopefully through music.

@II-V-I 3 жыл бұрын

WOW! I (casual musician) somehow came here out of nothing... I always enjoyed that prelude but now I'm shivering a bit. Rachmaninov is such a Genius! The last moment I had like this was seeing the score of Schuberts "Der Tod und das Mädchen"... Just recognizing how unbelievably good those guys were.... People should learn about that before calling some pop musician a Genius. You, Sir, are amazing. Thank you for opening the door to pieces I will never be able to play in my life and therefore I can stand wondering like child and that is how we should perceive art.

@williamsackelariou1860 Жыл бұрын

Thank you You are the first pianist whom lve heard play this prelude really well s Some of these big time virtuosy should see this Real music without ego

@eaglecode0776 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!! I really like this song, and for better you are analyzing it. Congratulations for have such a great channel.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@alperrin9310 9 ай бұрын

Marvelous! Thank-you

@atmadeepmukherjee5550 3 жыл бұрын

Good evening sir. Remember me commenting on your video on the Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 32 no. 10? You listened to me! Thank you so much Sir.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I did ;)

@mjohnlucen8577 3 жыл бұрын

I was really about to finish this piece when quarantine started and now, a year later, just when I have access to a piano again, my fingers forgot everything. Yuja wang's and Olga Schep's rendition of this piece are my inspiration of my own playing of this piece. Hope I can play it in the future. Thank you so much for this vid. 💖

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Well, if you learn it once and return later, it may take a while but something is still there and will return, is my experience.

@kenlokmusic 3 жыл бұрын

14:30 good point! I didn’t notice that chromatic up and down when I practice it. Great analysis!

@tommeyer3871 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite solo piano works, thanks a lot for your insight

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@mateodanielcoelho8404 3 жыл бұрын

I love how when I watch this analisis, I don't get discouraged from playing the piano like with other piano analisis videos. Thank you for helping me learn this beautiful instrument!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy to hear that! (I'm actually thinking about doing some videos on more proper learning and playing topics in the future)

@garriemcneill6021 2 жыл бұрын

Love the sound of old piano so much warm character. Reminds me of my old Bechstein 😎👏🙌

@lucas__machado 3 жыл бұрын

Very clever as always!

@corradoforza 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, very very interesting and accurate analysis 🧐!

@sethoppong6841 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Such a great analysis and performance. I was thinking about starting this piece soon

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Seth!

@JohnDoe-qr4xu 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets could you please do a tutorial on the inner melody section please. That's the part I'm stuck on. I can do the rest. It would be fantastic if you could.

@bobtate336 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the showing the progression of the music. You said several times you are playing it as you like it and not necessarily as it was written. That is fine. In fact, the score does not show all the elements that Rachmaninoff was doing. I had the good fortune to have Mme Gina Bachauer take me through this piece, much as you did here. She showed me how he played it & what he expected. Her instruction was quite different from your realization. She was a pupil of his. Good thing great music survives, despite what we may do to it.

@seongchaelee694 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone should know how wonderful your videos and analysis are! I always yearned for such in-depth harmonic details about certain music pieces and I AM FINALLY HERE. Thank you so much for your precise videos! Do you have any recommendations for where to find such informative analysis about symphonic pieces?

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, welcome to the channel! :) Yes, I can really recommend two channels: - "Sticky notes" podcast for listening guides like mine for symphonic repertoire - "Inside the score" youtube channel, great series on Beethoven symphonies and some other format content about mostly symphonic classical music.

@DomskiPlays 3 жыл бұрын

You are about to have to celebrate 10,000 subscribers!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, need to figure out something special to do... not the worst problem though :)

@everettworld1765 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I've been looking for so long for analysis of various sonatas and piano concertos. I'd love to see you analyzing Rachmaninoff's 2nd and 3rd concertos and Beethoven's 3rd!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

I love those concertos...

@jaimymetts 3 жыл бұрын

So beautiful!!

@cacciato69 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Amazing how does he do it! Even explained it remains mysterious. Surprising and just da**ed moving. My whole body reacts Thank you Mr. Kilhamn.

@problem9222 3 жыл бұрын

Started off with The Girl With The Flaxen Hair, although I'm not versed in music theory at all, I find these videos very intriguing and entertaining. Your content is great!

@aparadaeseria8684 3 жыл бұрын

At 6:26 would be a G >harmonic< minor because of the Eb.

@dawidwalega4726 2 жыл бұрын

Great analysis and really useful information . I just recorded this piece on my you tube channel . I really enjoy your videos. Thank you.

@wolfgangberndt3481 3 жыл бұрын

Very good analysis of this piece, which is among my 3 or 4 preferred preludes by Rachmaninov. I like the idea of the tŕain from 14:02 on! 🎹👍

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Funny story, I actually first had that idea in Scriabin's 5th sonata a long time ago, and realized it fit well here as well.

@elizabethkrage972 2 ай бұрын

I love, love, love the Marching Menace! I terrorized my family while conquering it for my final recital ever-9th grade. Now 68 I will have a piano and play it again. The challenge will be a slower left hand, getting the fingering right.

@elizabethkrage972 2 ай бұрын

I must add the piece needed attacking in the Marching sequence. My long fingers were somewhat of an embarrassment for a girl in my time, 1970- 1971, who was in love with Rachmaninoff.

@amitlanis3104 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Rach was an absolute genius composer

@petsila 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video, I've been practicing this piece for a while now. I love your analogies and also I wish you could be my piano teacher 🙂.

@dawidwalega4726 2 жыл бұрын

Great analysis. How did you manage with this piece?

@hao3921 Жыл бұрын

You can play the “accompaniment” softer to differentiate it from the melody.

@stefanmathys3272 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this in-depth and helpful tutorial, especially from a musical point of view. It has made me make progress on the piece (with which I have been struggling for months now..I find it difficult. I have a question though: what piano are you playing on?). I have a 1926 Schmidt Flohr concert upright and yours sounds quite like it.

@davidtonner9545 3 жыл бұрын

Great analysis! I have been learning this for about five years! This will really help memorising it - which is the only way I will ever get to play this accurately. One point - you didn’t emphasise the inner voices in the middle section as much as other pianists. So I am going to copy you as these few bars are so difficult to execute if you really make the inner voice dominant.

@norwalltino Жыл бұрын

Great lesson :-)

@asklepio7787 Жыл бұрын

This is the third piece I ever learned, after about three months of active piano playing. I practiced at school since I didn’t have my own piano and in class. At the beginning the music students that were in my class told me to quit piano right away. Turns out they were crying because I did something that took them years to live up to. I’m both proud and sad It’s a very good, not too hard piece to learn arpeggios and jumps in. Helps me still in my playing of for example Scriabin. Idk if I should go to a conservatory tbh. My uncle who is particularly gifted says that if I practice a few more months they’ll take me here in Belgium, but idk

@joaquinoteyza513 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully played

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@darkkuk920 3 жыл бұрын

Very good !

@NikolaosEnmetanoia 3 жыл бұрын

So clear and so sweet tone of the piano. Kind of piano is it? It sounds almost better than any orchestra grand piano I’ve listened to

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

It's a German Rönisch, 100 years old. I like it a lot too :)

@baldrbraa 3 жыл бұрын

Anlalysis makes the heart grow fonder!

@dleov4645 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I don't understand how you learn things so fast, but damn this would take me a long while.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Well, I practice for a long time before recording, it's just that I always have several pieces going on at the same time. For example now I started all these Rach after new years, together with another project which will come next. And almost all pieces I do here I have learned over the last 10 years or so, so they are not really new (although this particular was like 15 years ago so it felt new).

@dleov4645 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets Thanks for the insight. I really like your videos, they're always so entertaining and informative, and I appreciate the amount of effort you go to make quality content - including adding the score and the top down view of the keyboard.

@summerwind3217 9 ай бұрын

You said the chord progression is very good. 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

@Arsen738 3 жыл бұрын

Greate thanks!

@ronnyvanderwee417 Жыл бұрын

Geniaal !

@josehernandezcomposer1962 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@nezkeys79 11 ай бұрын

Love the emotes 😅

@user-cs9on4zt7g 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks you!

@sirchoppy1810 3 жыл бұрын

this channel is so underrated. :(

@margarethansen7480 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous, and again thanks a lot for doing that like an easy thing 👏👏👏👏even we know it’s not❤

@DomskiPlays 3 жыл бұрын

As I commented on Kassia's version of this piece, my neighbor the Opera singer often plays this in the morning and I didn't know it's name until I randomly found her video and recognised the melody!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

That is one versatile opera singer!

@DomskiPlays 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets Yeah I live in Vienna so I'm sure she is probably part of a group of proper musicians too!

@grassgrees6728 2 жыл бұрын

thank you

@militaryandemergencyservic3286 3 жыл бұрын

you play so well! Here's my 1'5 hour concert (some pieces unfinished - all played incompetently) - @

@ak0829 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite part in the whole piece is at the end where it goes back to the theme from the beginning, but with the small chromatic scales. (Around 16:44)

@despaiirx5487 2 жыл бұрын

Same. The coda is amazing

@giuseppet.3597 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Maestro! Beautiful sound of your piano!! It is a Bechstein piano? And very interesting explication! Thanks for your smiles!!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's actually a Rönisch, old German brand, 100 years old or so.

@samaritan29 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant analysis on what is probably the most Rachmaninoff sounding prelude!. ..btw any thoughts on videos about later Rachmaninoff, like the etude tableaux? I love the gradual chromaticizing of the tonal fabric in those pieces and his use of harmony in the later works is an interesting stylistic change, it would be nice to see analysis about that.

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, well I haven't played much of that unfortunately... but I want to learn the 2nd piano sonata some day. There is some more Scriabin coming soon though.

@herminio8768 2 жыл бұрын

¿Could you please tell the brand and model of the microphones you use? It would help me in my search. Thank you. Congratulations for the excelent class.

@anonza7733 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite Rachmaninov pieces, and quite a challenge to play. Just a wrong note at ~12:28 -- should be a D# in the right hand. It makes such a difference to the melodic bittersweet feel of the end of the middle passage!

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you're right I play wrong there. I think I saw the tied over note in the next bar and thought it was a D at some point (where it fits better with the harmony), and then just didn't register that it's actually, obviously a D#. Thanks for pointing it out!

@johnnylee3565 3 жыл бұрын

Nearing 10k subs!

@lucascury2003 3 жыл бұрын

Your channel is one of the best things that happened to me this year. I am addicted to your videos haha Hugs from Brazil Btw, i would love to see a video of Chopin's first ballade in G minor, its my favorite piece

@SonataSecrets 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel! :) The G minor ballade is definately on my list for the future!

@SonataSecrets Жыл бұрын

Chopin Ballade no. 1 out now: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdGWfdmhtKrHiIE.html

@lucascury2003 Жыл бұрын

@@SonataSecrets already watched twice!! ty so much for your content

@brunoroblesrendon 3 жыл бұрын

That augmented chord you mention around 3:05 doesn't exist its a bass note that inverts the previous 5 chord moving to the bass note of the following i6 chord that's in first inversion.

@ZzKingz1 3 жыл бұрын

SUCH an amazing, unique, and brilliant piece... and difficult. I’ve been working on it for months. Am I the only one who hears an element of camp in it? Like I could almost picture drag queens and buff Russian soldiers dancing up and down the steps of the Kremlin to this piece, if it could make a face it would be scowling but trying to hide a smile

@Jipzorowns Жыл бұрын

Would you play the part at 4:58 as octaves are switch between the 4th and 5th finger?

@ciararespect4296 Жыл бұрын

Lovely tone on the upright. What's the make please

@viktorious346 Жыл бұрын

Well done! Keep going! P.S. could u make this more "misteriosa" at the beginning, not like simple march, but like mysterious march (as Grieg's In the hall of MK beginning). And when "ppp" need to play "pppp" to be right. I hope, i'll see your prelude5 with this little thing.