December
Orchestra Lunch Concert with Paavo Järvi
Orchestra Lunch Concert with Paavo Järvi
The "Symphonic Dances" are Rachmaninoff's last work, and one can certainly hear it as a retrospective of his eventful life: In the first movement, he quotes his Symphony No. 1, which was initially such a great failure that Rachmaninoff fell into a deep crisis. The second movement is associated with the Russian Revolution, which drove Rachmaninoff into exile. And the finale combines musical material from the "Dies irae" and the "Hallelujah" of the Orthodox liturgy. Incidentally, Rachmaninoff himself also created a version for two pianos of this orchestral work and played it together with Vladimir Horowitz – not publicly, only privately. One would have liked to hear it ..
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