Rachmaninoff's last orchestral work. A masterpiece among so many others. Just think yourself lucky you're listening to this. So many have died before and after, never hearing it.

super, la migliore interpretazione! Grazie al Maestro.

beside the tam tam issue at the very end for me one of the best interpretations ever. Transparent orchestral sound, dynamics, tempi ❤

I just discovered this, and I'm glad I did, as I had never heard this orchestra before. This is a very fine performance by what is obviously a very fine orchestra. I plan to seek out more of their performances.

@StavangerSymfoniorkester

4 жыл бұрын

So nice to have you as a follower. We will release new recordings very soon - stay tuned!

Fantastic. The entire performance. Non Allegro how has to be, never listened by me before. Bravi.

@StavangerSymfoniorkester

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the wonderful comment, Bruno.

Great performance! Wonderful sound! Thanks a lot!

@StavangerSymfoniorkester

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Tam-tam vibrates at the final chord! Nice to hear that interpretation. Most of conductors stop the Dances sharply.

@seatonsr

Жыл бұрын

Because the score demands that the sound stop on the barline. This interpretation - like most - is incorrect.

@pnl4660

Жыл бұрын

@@seatonsr I see composer's remark in the Tam-tam score line "Laissez Vibrer" (= Let it Vibrate) a few bars before. Should the last chord be vibrated or not? That's the puzzle :)

@seatonsr

Жыл бұрын

@@pnl4660 He was a brilliant composer - he could have put a fermata to indicate continued sound. The double bar stops the train dead in its tracks.

Excellent chef, bravo !!!

Så vakkert!!! Fint! Flott!!!

@StavangerSymfoniorkester

5 жыл бұрын

Tusen takk for den fine kommentaren, Ирина!

Lovely lovely piece..

Beautiful sound and performance; simply excellent!

Is the saxophone scoring original - or is the sax duplicating for a base clarinet or something else?

@kestrel4733

3 жыл бұрын

Saxophone is original as far as I know. Substitutions for parts are pretty uncommon in orchestral music unless specified by the composer. There’s also already a bass clarinet on stage so it’s not like it would be out of shortage or something. Pretty cool to see saxophone in the orchestra though!

@nicholasfox966

Жыл бұрын

It is indeed original. Rachmaninoff was turned on to the sax by the American composer and arranger Robert Russell Bennett.

1st mvt too slow but finale AWESOME

@nicholasfox966

Жыл бұрын

Non Allegro (not fast, not lively). A very specific tempo marking cautioning the conductor away from his or her instinct to play this music quickly. On the contrary, most performances of this movement are much too brisk, and miss the music's character: a kind of resilient, stoic inevitability. Eugene Ormandy, the work's dedicatee and who studied it with the composer, also avoided the classic error of taking the movement quickly.

35:52....whaaaattttt? Definitely NOT what the score says. Can anyone justify playing it this way?

@nicholasfox966

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. An unjustified and inexplicable interpretational intervention that not only ignores what is in the score, but as a result deflates the forward momentum and tension of the final minutes, when the energy needs to be approaching its boiling point.

Too slow

@germanchris4440

10 ай бұрын

I agree.