I agree.. Good word, "transcendence"!

Totaly agree... and more! ☺️

God speaking with him about love....

Sounds a bit boring. First time ive heard. His piano compositions are out of this world but I haven't got time for this kitsch over sentimental syrupy slop 😂

@@ciararespect4296 I think you have.

Beautifully said!

Yes hard to belive he was Russian these days

I cannot agree enough! These ignorant MOTHER FUCKERS destroy the piece.

For the price you are paying to watch this, what's the complaint again?

dude get an ad blocker

subscribe..its great; i dropped my sirius and picked this one up..never hear adds..puts play lists together..i reallly like it..ive discovered much new music unbeknownst to me.\

Insatiable Capitalist

I’ve been listening to classical music since I was 12- willingly- but I didn’t appreciate it for its art and beauty until recently at age 29. This is truly a masterpiece.

@@liaades9452 I admire you! You have a great head start advantage on me! Value of people should not be judged by his or her wealth or social status but by his or her human heart which could understand beauty and righteousness.

@@MrEjidorie I agree! 🤍

Me too ..

Ah you have the rest of your lifetime to enjoy and pass on the sheer enjoyment of this master piece to others or treasure its beauty with yourself only.....

This music piece sounds like it was taken out of the 60s movies, i guess people back then were very inspired by it!

Красота! ❤

Thats so sad to hear, i feel you in a way. Thanks for sharing.

He's too beautiful for this cruel world. Wherever he is, know that he's in good hands, and someday, you'll see each other again.

Bless you. It must be so heartwrenching for you. This music speaks to the soul. I believe our loved ones connect to us through this music when we listen to it, as our souls awaken. Your brother will be with you.

Hello i know how you feel it’s a little llke that for me, Take care now ok? P

Sending you a virtual hug my friend. God bless.

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Oddly, it makes me think of what breaking up with someone feels like.

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Exactly

What a super analogy. I fell in love with this work the first time I heard it. It made my heart yearn so much for the thing that was missing in my life, and sadly, still is.

or "Never gonna fall in love again"....

@Catia Lucero Yes! I so much agree. At the very beginning, as well as around the 2:48 mark, are points where I especially feel this.

Yep, actually when I met my ex ,In our first date I feel a tremendous energy that just this movement can represent ,I never had felt a beauty of such level of morale and spiritual Beuty :(

❤

So peacful, unlike Putin.

@@zvonimirhanic5548 idiot

It is beautiful.

​@@zvonimirhanic5548wow. What a stupid person you are......

@@zvonimirhanic5548 and the Anglo-Saxons

Same. I first heard as a teenager, and the word I felt was yearning.

@@marystauff4984 Good word! Thanks

Technically, if you're listening to this you're listening to Late Romantic music.

May your Mum rest in peace Paolo

Exactly, there's something so threatening yet romantic about that part, it feels as if the world is ending and the only things left are just you and your lover

The most beautiful moment in music.

But Sergei Rachmaninov was a late Romantic period composer, rather than classical.

Thank you for that. Think I found it.

Indeed.....tears in my eyes at the moment.

@@eckyx9019 I loved performing his second symphony 3rd movement. It was a totally different experience. I still got goosebumps from performing it.

@@lisa1212ification In my interpretation this movement is love embodied in music.....no other piece has moved me so much.

@@lisa1212ification If you don't mind me asking, in which section do you play....

​@@lisa1212ificationAnd if you don't mind me asking, which part of this movement is your favorite

He was homesick constantly. And the love for your home is a great love too :)

Ana Lord Really？

He was a tormented soul

This, if not already discussed before in this forum, may help explain and be of some interest to some. American pop rock artist Eric Carmen co-wrote "Never gonna fall in love again" in the mid 70s which became a number one hit on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. If you listen carefully to the opening of the movement and again at 3:30, and at 8:20 to 8:30 ( solo horn followed by solo violin ) and 8:55 to 9:10 ( solo clarinet ) , you'll hear the melody Carmen "lifted" from Rachmaninov's composition. The lyrics to the song are as follows: No use pretending things can still be right There's really nothing more to say I'll get along without your kiss tonight Just close the door and walk away Never gonna fall in love again I don't want to start with someone new ‘Cause I couldn't bear to see it end Just like me and you No, I never want to feel the pain Of remembering how it used to be Never gonna fall in love again Just like you and me At first we thought that love was here to stay The summer made it seem so right But like the sun we watched it fade away From morning into lonely night Songwriters: Eric Carmen / Sergei Rachmaninoff

@trihardous maximus As insulting as your attempt to spell "puny"?

You have put into words exactly what I feel about this absolutely sublime music. I very recently attended a live performance of it with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra masterfully conducted by Riccardo Muti, and I warned the people sitting on both sides of me that if it proved to be as magnificent a performance of it that I so fervently hoped it would be, I would very likely breakdown and weep during the second movement, and to please forgive me as I couldn't prevent myself from doing so as I am simply overwhelmed by such incomparable beauty. I am very glad that I did so because it turned out to be an overwhelmingly gorgeous performance of this ravishingly beautiful masterpiece, and it was quite clear that the packed audience was in full agreement with my assessment , as it almost brought the house down in its extended full-throated response at its conclusion. Of the many recorded versions of this masterpiece, I would place this particular one at or very near the top of the list. -- R. A, Verville

Check out "Rachmaninoff "V" Concerto".....with PIANO ingeniously ADDED. Merry Xmas from Mexico!

Yes......this rips me up.....so beautiful buy yet excruciatingly painful! I can never listen to this without sobbing!!!!

try to be more original.

Es. Sencillamente. Fabulosa. Y. Amorosa

@@marshanovita9263 Exactly, me too.

@@mandoman6786 Just shut up and don’t comment then

Yes❤

Putin’s favourite piece

Hagase La Paz en Ucrania! La aventura del ser humano, en mi opinión ha de ser la búsqueda de la verdad de este universo, en el que viajamos todos juntos en el planeta tierra, la solidaridad entre todos los seres humanos y el respeto al otro. El otro, soy yo mismo nacido en otras tierras. La formula es entre todos!

@@petelovatt8357 Stop ruining it

Я русская, но я не имею отношения ни к Рахманинову, ни к Чайковскому, ни к Достоевскому, но и ни к Путину. Все эти люди уже давно международные, они великие или злые гении своего времени. А я просто одной с ними национальности.

Полностью согласен

well I agree tu but don´t forget Tchaikowsky he has beautiful tunes also my friend

This adagio is the greatest exposition and expansion of a theme I know of in any piece of music, anywhere.

Civilization slipping away by woke social justice warriors on every corner in every sport and every church

@@jonpeirce4005 that development of the 2nd theme....omg

Succinct, on point and absolutely well said. Bravo, sir! Bravo!

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Justin Satiable : so it’s not only me..

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Me.

For me, it's always the effort it takes to hold back the tears of joy and sadness, simultaneously.

So glad for you

I will not forget your comment, this music does point to another place.

I knew that the symphony pointed to a place of love, something I had yearned for. But I had thought that it was a love of a mother, which I had never experienced. I am now convinced that the symphony had tapped into a greater and eternal love, the love of my Creator who cares for me daily and who has given me hope.

Там нет этих тональностей

I wish Rach could hear these kind words when he was alive. Back in his time, he was considered, well, not very good as a composer, because his music was too beautiful.

BTW, thankyou for you Russians (I assume you are one) for someone like Rach to compose such heavenly music. What is it with you people - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov etc the music is so tragic, moving.....cant describe it.....

it is the recapitulation of this solo by the string 9:15 that gets me every time. it feels like a lonely soul finally finds a companion that truly understands it and cares about it.

I sometimes burst into tears upon listening to the honesty, purity and beauty of the music at the opening. Beauty at it's finest.

@@lawrencedecosta6473 I agreed until you got to Rimsky K! Hate his music, hate the ballet The Firebird. Hate Stravinsky, except the Adagio of his Piano Concerto which is sublime. Same with Mahler - hate his music except his Adagio of No. 5 (I think used in the Dirk Bogarde film Death in Venice). Hate Schoenberg….. All the same these composers I’ve listed - dissonance, not music.

@Margeret come from real id karen

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Meu nome. Maria Altair de Macedo. Pereira 😮Amo de paixão Rachmaninoff ❤ o Concerto no 2 para piano e orquestra sinfônica de Londres e o regente Gergiev❤️🙏

é o meu predileto ❤️Conc. no 2 piano e orquestra Rachmaninoff 🌺🙏

Andrew Marriner, the man playing the clarinet in the recording.

11 year old you was based. That is all.

I used to visit the gravesite often when I lived across the bridge. It is a beautiful site.

Очень трогает Адажио. Завтра иду в филармонию, симфония 2 Рахманинова...

.Спасибо большое.

This piece is ineffable. My emotions are always available when I listen to it

Если выкинуть национальные клише, то вы попали в точку. Удивительно

I believe God gifted great composers because God loves music! I think your inner spirit is seeking our eternal God! He is knocking at your door to let Him in! Be safe, be happy and be blessed!

Beautiful

@@elizabethwiese1555 naah thats not it there is no god.

So beautifully expressed... this piece is beyond beautiful 🧘‍♂️

@@randomguy6934 …one day, one day it will reveal itself to you. Just you.

Schools are responsible for their priorities --- sports usually dominate over the creative .

They prefer noise. Sad truth

No, you must understand that vile and crooked people shall have music that reflects how profoundly meaningless they are. The masses can only corrupt such beauty. We all have the capacity to appreciate it, classical music belongs to everyone but first we bring ourselves closer to the essence of music and the essence of the human soul. It is all so beautiful, so charming, at least much more so than vulgar jokes and ‘roasts’. Cheers

Not only classical music touches my heart. There are so many beautiful songs out there.

Deepika Menon I also believe the masses would corrupt these beauties. I wish everyone could enjoy these masterpieces the way I do but maybe it’s best left for only few.

Desde la profunda y enigmática Rusia un genio para los tiempos actuales

@@emiliogonzalez6498 imposible analizarlo con palabras

Me tomó 47 años encontrarme con esta belleza... Qué melodía más hermosa taa-ra-ra-ra-ra-raaaaa taa-ra-ra-ra-ra-raaaaa... gracias a internet y a esa cosa maravillosa llamada Radiogarden logré escucharla por primera vez en la Rbb Kultur Radio de Berlín, una noche de viernes, lluviosa y algo triste .

@@fernandomunoz1974 -- BRAVO desde Cd. de Mexico!

- that is vile anti-communist propaganda

You should have children brought up in a communal creche - no mothers and no love necessary

I miss the old Russia tbh 😓

Clarinet played by Andrew Marriner

This movement is love encapsulated in music.

This is a sensual music. Ideal for s*x

@Amarina E. i totally picture this as a goodbye piece as well! i would love to conduct it for my senior recital or like my final concert when im older!

I do.

It could well be a sort of goodbye, as Rachmaninov never saw his country again....

The Germans have the perfect word for this sensation: "Weltschmerz," literally world-weariness, but probably hard to translate exactly. Just to speak it sounds melancholy!

Warren Hamlet That's my favorite part also. I won't lie, I searched the comments to find who else thought so.

Agreed

Brian Silbjefusalem kletshmer

I so agree.

I hear God in here

Rachmaninoff adagio 2

god, the imagined entity, had NOTHING to do with the creating of this masterpiece.

musica commovente.........

Best comment!

Mahler begs to differ, but I really get you :)

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!

God had nothing to do with this. Stop. This was a genius that made an amazing symphony. God did nothing.

@Forever Forward Yes, I can. That comment reminds me of those people who thank God when the operation was sucessful instead of thanking the doctor. Did God also reach out to Mozart and made him compose Leck mich im Arsch?

Дай Бог вам силы.Очень сочувствую.

I bet that was a show to behold.

That gave me shivers.

Étirer une telle mélodie avec un tel talent c’est sublime

About 10 years ago, I played Shostakovich 5th symphony and I was told that I made half the orchestra cry when I played the oboe solo in the third mvmt. Out of beauty-not agony!

@@excalibur1812 This made me cry spontaneously... I play the Oboe myself (but never played Shostakovitch's 5th symphony). That is such an extraodinary feeling, to really touch people with your own playing. Such a special moment, i bet you will never forget it

We are soo very very sorry!

I went to hear this tonight at The Royal Festival Hall in London and your comment broke my heart as I went with my partner, it is our theme - my greatest fear is leaving him until i can come and take his hand into light - to have loved is to have lived. You will be on my mind and please have faith. x

I am crying while I read your words and thinking of how this music touches the hearts and lives of others. I use to be a professional violist and have played this piece several times. I still cry every night in my prayers thinking of Dima. I still have dreams, visions, nightmares and hopes for reunion in heaven. This piece is so difficult for me to explain because of a flood of memories. I am 66 years old and now I am told by doctors that my heart is slowly and gradually not functioning. In my eyes, I am dying of a broken heart. However, my soul is joyful because I will soon be with him and all those I have loved! I am seeing afar off the sunrise that is in this work. I see my future, my eternity, I SEE MY GREATEST LOVES - GOD and my DIMA! Just before he was murdered, and I foresaw his death, I made him to promise me to be at heaven's gate for me. Then we shall hear this music together - FOREVER!@@Michael-wt4qs

Thank you for your kind reply. One day we will meet and smile. God bless you from London @@SarumChoirmaster

This is too painful to listen to. I can't, not just yet. Not right after saying goodbye to someone I love. It hurts beyond anything I've felt. Isn't it incredible? What is it in the music that so clearly describes a goodbye, that says goodbye without saying a single word?

It breaks my heart and brings a smile to my face at the same time, truly incredible

Like you finally know for sure Love will finally win, even though you didn't find it yet....cannot believe I wrote that...I really don't like the l-word.

11:12 3 MIN BEFORE THAT STARTS THE STRUGGLE TO LET GO 🥲

Incredibly painful, and raw. Can't stop crying that last minute...