Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Proms 2013

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Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" during First Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo

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@Rx-mn5fv 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent performance. I especially liked the fact that the soloist was more interested in serving Rachmaninov's music well than in showmanship.Bravo!

@CDB8939 7 жыл бұрын

Exactly, this just shows that throwing yourself around the piano is un-necessary He is probably one the best Pianists in the World, and also at everything else he does, if you haven't looked him up please do so. When I played Double Bass for our local Symphony Orchestra in the early 1980's we played this piece and Stephen was the Soloist. He is also playing this on 16th March 2017 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. UK and we have tickets

@davidhowarth3915 Жыл бұрын

An astonishing performance by Stephen Hough. I’ve listened to this numerous times. Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻

@ConservativeAnthem Жыл бұрын

You're right...he's wonderful.

@adamvicari3295 Жыл бұрын

The entire rhapsody is beautiful, but the section beginning around minute 16:00 is perhaps one of the greatest and most serenely beautiful pieces of music ever written. Pure gold.

@musiclady49 4 жыл бұрын

A true Renaissance man! Performer, artist, painter, composer, author and more! He is definitely an absolute genius and a pleasure to watch and listen to. He makes it look effortless!

@ohadshushan5588 Жыл бұрын

the part from 15:00 to 18:00 might be one of the most beautiful art pieces i have ever listened/seen/felt. every time I hear that section I am on the brink of tears. Rachmaninoff is a genius.

@whatnot2535 9 жыл бұрын

This man is a genius! We have seen in him in concert twice, and met him at the end of the last recital - what an exceptionally pleasant man he is. I simply love each of these variations, and to watch Stephen Hough's rendition is amazing - the blur of his fingers over the keys, especially in the variation is astounding! Magnifico!!!

@adamvicari3295 Жыл бұрын

The entire rhapsody is beautiful, but the section beginning around minute 16:00 is perhaps one of the greatest and most serenely beautiful pieces of music ever written. Pure gold.

@michaelrosa2015 Жыл бұрын

As I often say about the sublime, it's as if a higher power reached down and touched Rachmaninoff's brain when it came time to compose this variation. Nothing else can aptly how it has captivated the imaginations of legions of music lovers for a century.

@18724AK Жыл бұрын

The grestest of our generation.

@adamvicari3295 Жыл бұрын

The entire rhapsody is beautiful, but the section beginning around minute 16:00 is perhaps one of the greatest and most serenely beautiful pieces of music ever written. Pure gold.

@davidyoung6331 Жыл бұрын

Probably a coincidence but Dvorak wrote the melody 54 years earlier. Well, not precisely the same melody, but close enough to make you wonder. (Both are in the somewhat obscure key of D flat major). Dvorak put the melody into one of his "Legends", written first for piano and then orchestrated. Curiously, he had the melody played just once... strange for such a beautiful melody. Here is the piano version. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7l3jaec29yUoWQ.html And here is the orchestra version. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h6iaeZaK2ba4p5c.html

@alexcordogan780 9 ай бұрын

😊😊

@andgar2127 11 жыл бұрын

Oh my god every cell in my body was alive with excitement during this entire video! Rachmaninov himself would shake this orchestra's every hand if he had been there! Thank you for bringing so much joy to this world with such magnificent music.

@johnrichardson5346 9 жыл бұрын

What amazing results happen when humans work together....Beautiful!

@RaoulPathak 9 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@johnrichardson5346 9 жыл бұрын

I cried first ten times I heard this-and I don't cry...I think from happiness! Not sure...At the 15 min part....

@vasilisflutist 8 жыл бұрын

+John Richardson me as well, please listen to Mikhail Pletnev, maybe is even more exciting esoecially on the theme on the 15min.

@cufflink44 8 жыл бұрын

+John Richardson Yes, that's the famous 18th Variation. Incredibly beautiful, especially in context: all the preceding gloom, and then a ray of light comes through. I cry too--just about every time I hear it.

@ElisabettaCONTI-cd3dk 21 күн бұрын

BISOGNA RIVOLGERE UNA PARTICOLARE ATTENZIONE AL PIANISTA, CHE CON GRANDE ABILITA', ESEGUE PER PUANOFORTE, LA CELEBRE RAPSODIA DI " RACHMANINOV".

@pyroprince78 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best interpretations of this concerto I have ever heard. As Martha Argerich once pointed out, one must "lean forward" when hearing music before it is played. In this way, Mr. Hough's music making is so full of musical intelligence, sense of architecture, and vitality. His mental energy is so vibrant. I really enjoyed this performance.

@djmotise Жыл бұрын

Huh? Lean forward? What?

@hsltr1 8 жыл бұрын

Stephen Hough ,what a magnificent performance it blew me away ,thank you Mr Hough you are a giant .

@PeterLunowPL Жыл бұрын

Hough is a class act. And only serving the music. Superb!!!

@adamvicari3295 Жыл бұрын

The entire rhapsody is beautiful, but the section beginning around minute 16:00 is perhaps one of the greatest and most serenely beautiful pieces of music ever written. Pure gold.

@MeredithPhillipsWrites Жыл бұрын

Why am I getting all teary at the end?! 😭 God, what a performance.

@dianawang5931 9 жыл бұрын

好棒的演绎！最美钢琴协奏曲之一，美到完全屏住呼吸，然后需要再深吸一口气长出口气，人类美的极致，泪崩

@kakdelarebyata 4 жыл бұрын

One Comment, Two questions: Comment 1: The precision and grace Stephen Hough are enviable and a blessing. Rachmaninoff is well served and our lives immeasurably enriched by this performance. Question 1: How did he manage to keep his cool during all the coughing? The poise he showed during "cough-fest" in the 18th variation was nothing less than heroic. Question 2: Were those who couldn't control their coughing eventually shot, dismembered and buried outside the city walls? One hopes so.

@galantxxx 2 жыл бұрын

I am sure he didn't even hear it. The kind of concentrated trance musicians are in when they perform, blocks out most coughing. LOL.

@doctorfoster1968 2 жыл бұрын

Yes why do these idiots always cough in the quietest and beautiful moments? Drives me crazy

@hmxr715 Жыл бұрын

You forgot decapitation.

@FourthDerivative Жыл бұрын

Meh. If you attend enough classical performances, you just get used to all the coughing, especially with a large audience like this. It's not always something that can be controlled. Now, if someone's cell phone starts ringing? THAT'S a hanging offense.

@djmotise Жыл бұрын

@@galantxxx Um, no it doesn't.

@yvesorengo2985 6 жыл бұрын

Quelle oeuvre splendide, et quelle interprétation !! Hough est l'un des meilleurs dans Rachmaninov, Liszt, Mompou. Une facilité déconcertante et un lyrisme inégalable.

@notaire2 9 жыл бұрын

Lebhafte und gut artikulierte Leistung dieses anspruchsvollen und zugleich romantischen Meisterwerks mit klarem Anschlag des Klaviers. Der Solist ist echt genial!

@hshshs2007 11 жыл бұрын

what an amazing pianist,a real first rate rachmaninov interpreter.

@bryangl1 5 жыл бұрын

Note to KZfaq. This is not a "song" ─ a "song" is something you SING.

@WMAcadet Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite piece of Classical Music even though it was not written until the 20th Century. For me even with so many other great compositions, which I also love, Sergei Rachmaninov composed the best of all with this exquisite piece. I never tire of listening to it, or to the many great pianists and orchestras interpretations of it, it is just so special.

@flitno 11 жыл бұрын

Introduction (00:06) ; Thème (00:34) ; Variation II (00:54) ; Var. III (01:14) ; Var. IV (01:40) ; Var. V (02:10) ; Var. VI (02:40) ; Var. VII (03:47) ; Var. VIII (04:59) ; Var. IX (05:35) ; Var. X (06:07) ; Var. XI (07:00) ; Var. XII (08:15) ; Var. XIII (09:38) ; Var. XIV (10:09) ; Var. XV (10:54) ; Var. XVI (11:59) ; Var. XVII (13:42) ; Var. XVIII (15:39) ; Var. XIX (18:27) ; Var. XX (19:01) ; Var. XXI (19:37) ; Var. XXII (20:03) ; Var. XXIII (21:42) ; Var. XXIV (22:33)

@maria11bonita 11 жыл бұрын

Wow magnificent performance! What a privilege to listen to this beautiful sound!

@Ramblr 2 жыл бұрын

Back again in 2022 and this is still as wonderful as the first time I heard it. So very well done! My favorite piece of classical music.

@ajmarr5671 11 ай бұрын

best performance of this masterpiece I have ever heard and seen!

@LionGoodman 6 жыл бұрын

Wow. What nimble and talented fingers!

@njohansen2 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely magnificent execution of Rachmaninov's brilliant and ingenious variations on a Theme of Paganini. Stephen Hough delivers a flawless, precise and technically perfect performance, something many other pianists only can dream of. He's in 100% control of nuances and touch, velocity, its pure and craftsmanship at it's best, bravo!! That he doesn't twist his face into a mocking of a Dali painting is a blessing, but may be hard for uneducated people to understand, hence they interpret it as a flaw. Stephen Hough plays with utmost musicality without the drama.

@cyflym11 4 жыл бұрын

Well I'm certainly uneducated as I've only just started to learn the piano, but I never took it to be flaw! I simply assumed he'd got himself into the 'zone' to be able to concentrate on his spectacular performance and as such was probably oblivious to the audience anyway.

@asdfg952816 2 жыл бұрын

@thedabler8470 10 ай бұрын

This is my absolute favorite piece and I have seen many different performances, Steven’s is the best one I have heard. The build up and attention to the most beautiful nuances of the middle section delivers all that I need to hear. ❤

@laurab1981 9 жыл бұрын

My most favourite variation is Var.XVIII . Nothing else exists when that plays for me x

@herondelatorre4023 3 жыл бұрын

Laura Batterham: Whenever I hear this Var.XVIII it takes me back to Imperial Russia during the reign and life of the last Tsar/Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra, their son Grand Duke/Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters/Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. God bless their memory!!!!

@leslieham4550 Жыл бұрын

Look at those hands! The finest performance of this work I have ever seen or heard.

@djmotise Жыл бұрын

Oh come on. Why does there have to a best all the time? There are so many superb pianists nowadays. More than ever.

@dragutince 3 жыл бұрын

AMAZING recording and mix! I heard this piece million times, but now, it's the first time to hear some details. Bravo for the technicians! Amazing performance of Stephen Hough, somewhat unique interpretation. Lucid like always. :)

@standporter Жыл бұрын

This piece reaches out to everyone, even the furthest of laymen. I've always thought that this piece, which was one of Rachmaninoff's last major ones, eloquently describes the journey of someone from an older tradition confronting the confusion of the new. Going back and forth, sometimes pining for the old, sometimes celebrating the new, sometimes just plain confused, again and again and again, we finally arrive at a crazy, wild optimism. Who doesn't find this relevant to our modern age?

@adamvicari3295 Жыл бұрын

The entire rhapsody is beautiful, but the section beginning around minute 16:00 is perhaps one of the greatest and most serenely beautiful pieces of music ever written. Pure gold.

@jonathanrobinson2628 3 жыл бұрын

We saw Stephen Hough perform this at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh many years ago. Truly a mesmerising experience. It's always him I come back to for Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.

@jackylen57 6 жыл бұрын

Merveilleux !!! j'admire ce pianiste : quelle virtuosité !!!

@angelinebena9675 2 жыл бұрын

This piece is so brilliant

@dtyou6701 9 жыл бұрын

The pianist is the one played the same work with BPO in Berlin's Waldbühne a couple of years ago. Terrific. Romantic.

@karenoliver825 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible

@vitamin168 Жыл бұрын

Great recording. Balance is tremendous.

@pinko7589 Жыл бұрын

The best version of this piece ever!!

@adamvicari3295 Жыл бұрын

The entire rhapsody is beautiful, but the section beginning around minute 16:00 is perhaps one of the greatest and most serenely beautiful pieces of music ever written. Pure gold.

@Sarasdad91 2 жыл бұрын

Somewhere in Time brought me here. Beautiful just absolutely beautiful.

@bb2fiddler 9 жыл бұрын

4:01 - They totally zoomed in on the wrong bassoon X)

@simonfrancis5458 2 жыл бұрын

Dr No at his very best. Defeating the world with mesmerising skill.

@scottw6704 25 күн бұрын

Listeners will usually assume the last variation is the most difficult, but it's actually the penultimate variation with the octave-and-a-half jumps followed by the see-saw alternating 7ths/octaves/9ths. That variation is a beast unless you have giant Liszt hands (which I don't). Everything else has been possible after some woodshedding. I love watching Mr. Hough take the final glissando and there is a micro-second where he stops the gliss and hits the A octave from straight above. It's just not feasible to gliss INTO the A save for the times where you just get lucky and land it!

@valerieheinderyckx4506 Жыл бұрын

Fantastique..!❤

@rebeccarankin2691 9 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday!

@martinlee3953 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@wendybehe2681 10 жыл бұрын

Great sound and a riveting performance. Thank you.

@andrewsimmons6911 6 жыл бұрын

6.56 what a moment!

@speakersr-lyefaudio6830 6 жыл бұрын

Their is nothing quite like music

@lanemiddleton9 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed: There’s nothing quite like music - “The language of life.”

@tbastdgagitw 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@zenevg Жыл бұрын

Очень красиво.. В России такого исполнения не услышишь. Оркестр великолепно звучит, ну и солист на высоте.

@afischer8327 Жыл бұрын

Россия выпустила одних из лучших музыкантов в мире. Несмотря на свою внешнюю политику, я аплодирую русским музыкантам, в том числе Ростроповичу, Шостаковичу и многим другим.

@zenevg Жыл бұрын

"Иных уж нет, другие странствуют далече" - я пишу про нынешние времена.

@PianoKos 7 жыл бұрын

Bravo.

@massimolioy 11 жыл бұрын

che meraviglia

@CM-vl7gs 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever heard this played so fast!

@conchiherves 7 жыл бұрын

"Mi música es el producto de mi temperamento. En consecuencia, es la música rusa. Tchaikovsky y Rimsky-Korsakov me influenciaron fuertemente. Sin embargo, nunca he imitado a nadie. Trato, al escribir mi música, por no decir simple y directamente lo que está en mi corazón. Si hay amor, ni amargura, o tristeza, o la religión, entonces estos estados de ánimo se convierten en parte de mi música. En consecuencia, la música se convierte en hermoso, o amargo, o triste, o religioso. " ~ Rachmaninoff "Rachmaninoff escribió la banda sonora de este concierto para piano en 1934. Él alcanzó tres décadas de fama como virtuoso del piano. Rachmaninoff también fue un célebre concierto para piano ointérprete, no sólo de sus propias obras, sino también de la música de piano de Beethoven y Chopin. Rachmaninoff realiza como la mitad del teclado de asociaciones considerando, incluyendo este concierto para piano, con violinistas distinguidos, el principal de ellos Fritz Kreisler. (De Wikipedia)

@tbastdgagitw 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderfull. Love the transion at 15:36

@tbastdgagitw 3 жыл бұрын

Transition

@wolfgangresch1650 2 жыл бұрын

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO ♥️♥️♥️👏🔥

@MaxBigazzi Жыл бұрын

Superb!

@JohnRoberts-wk6rf Жыл бұрын

Superb.

@WinWindowS.K.Julian Жыл бұрын

I know everyone loves var 18, but can we all Show var 12 some love too?

@fierywomanpacnw7004 2 ай бұрын

Actually #12 is my favorite -- so gothic!

@firstname1588 Жыл бұрын

Bravo Rachmaninov !

@garethwilkinson3456 2 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell he's good.

@NuclearNubcake 6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Hough, a man truly gifted and talented even to the extent of showing this off with an outfit fit for only supreme leader Kim Jong Un. But seriously it's at least 2x glorious as Kimmy J :)

@writeract2 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Hough is marvelous, I hope he knows that.

@aaronhungerford1341 10 жыл бұрын

It would be incredibly hard to be ready for the next couple of chords after the glissando at 23:31. No way is this his 24th appearance at the Proms! That's gotta be a coincedence... Here's another one: Stephen Hough and Sakari Oramo's names together have almost 24 letters. And another: the concerto itself takes about 24 minutes to perform. Finally, the name of the concerto -- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini -- count the letters.

@keyboarddancers7751 8 жыл бұрын

15:32 Go on, admit it to yourself; this is the only reason you came to this page!

@nspidel 8 жыл бұрын

I came for 18:29 honestly xD

@aubreyaub 7 жыл бұрын

Yup. But love that ending also, crescendo.............plink...plink.

@SolveEtCoagula93 6 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding? Have you seen the way Variation 24 is played?

@speakersr-lyefaudio6830 6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Lulabellexd 6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely one of my favourite music scores ever from the film 'Somewhere in Time'

@philip9172 Жыл бұрын

Everyone should listen to Hugh's comments on this song how the notes are played in reversed

@kubo648 Жыл бұрын

Great performance in many ways! However, there are a few noticeable technical lapses during the difficult final variations.

@301250 11 жыл бұрын

Why is it that as so often the case with performances of the legendary Proms, people in the audience have to cough during those very moments, like for instance in the Eighteen Variation played here so beautifully by this wonderful pianist, that would make their afflictions glaringly obvious to all and sundry.

@garethwilkinson3456 2 жыл бұрын

Make him a Sir. The man can do it all.

@sjkula 7 жыл бұрын

can anyone find the piano music for this? like the actual piano solo- not arrangement? I can't find anywhere

@susieingred 5 жыл бұрын

You can get the Original Rachmanoff score , download PDF provided your not on USA due to some copywriter issues!

@bryannguyen8440 4 жыл бұрын

@@susieingred here you go. www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=a9JXRHhzuV#

@CDB8939 2 жыл бұрын

Sir Stephen Hough

@djmotise Жыл бұрын

Who tf cares about that ubiquitous "sir?"

@restuadi1755 5 ай бұрын

what a sound 15:01

@ElisabettaCONTI-cd3dk 21 күн бұрын

RETTIFICO " PER PIANOFORTE"

@peterschorn1 10 жыл бұрын

This is a great rendition, but the way that pianist looks--shouldn't he be playing this before an audience of shadowy minions as the timer on his Doomsday Weapon ticks down to global annihilation?

@cyflym11 4 жыл бұрын

He does look a bit as if he should be stroking a white fluffy cat. I'd love to know what anti-perspirant he uses. He finishes still looking as cool as a cucumber whereas I'd be sweating like a pig after five minutes of that sort of effort!

@StickyBrown62 6 ай бұрын

What an excellent piece with an intriguing melody, but I like the piece by ligma better (deez symphony 25) very similar rhythm 😁

@liamkenny4288 6 ай бұрын

Yes very interesting piece of music

@kiriedriver 11 жыл бұрын

Only real men/bosses memorize entire piano symphonies

@michaelgouda305 5 жыл бұрын

kiriedriver only piano players with good memories can memorize whole symphonies.

@djmotise Жыл бұрын

Stupid stupid comment.

@manthony777 2 жыл бұрын

15:30 👍

@User-1683x2 3 жыл бұрын

15:33

@robmaddison8645 3 жыл бұрын

was that a bent variation of the theme?

@stevencrabbe 3 жыл бұрын

666 likes, no coincidence!

@user-qs9vj5eb9x 2 жыл бұрын

와 손에 땀인가요. …

@henryzhang2053 6 ай бұрын

3:47

@EmptyVee00000 5 жыл бұрын

Great virtuosity, but pity about the lackluster Var. XVIII, and general lack of drive.

@marksb0601 2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree

@djmotise Жыл бұрын

Pity about the horrifically out of tune orchestra.

@nostalgic.note2627 Жыл бұрын

9:38

@valecampi6320 2 жыл бұрын

Var. XVIII 15:38 ❤️

@poursafar 3 жыл бұрын

C 24

@herondelatorre4023 2 жыл бұрын

Whenever I hear this 18th Variation it takes me back to Imperial Russia during the life and reign of the last Tsar/Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra, their son Grand Duke/Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters/Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. God Bless their memory!!!!!!