What is your Favorite Rachmaninoff Concerto?
Rachmaninoff's Birthday is coming up next year (150 years!) and lots of performers are programming his music to celebrate.
Just this month I have personally played Rach 3 and Rach 1 with orchestras to celebrate!
I was wondering what is YOUR favorite concerto! If you need to listen again check these recordings below!
(All of these performances are RACHMANINOFF playing his own concerto!)
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I think my favorite Concerto is his 1st piano concerto! Absolutely love the 1st movement cadenza, and the incredibly special 2nd movement. Hearing this live when I was a kid made me what to become a pianist!
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My favorite Rachmaninoff Concerto to perform is the one in E major by either Josef Marx or Moritz Moszkowski -- the latter, by the way, being dedicated to Josef Hofmann, as is Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto. Hofmann never played either, and apparently didn't particularly like them, alas.
In a more serious response, I'd say all 5 Rachmaninoff Concertos are my favorite to play -- don't forget the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which is also a set of Variations as well as a Concerto without pauses between its three sections. And closely related, both the Cello Sonata with its Concerto-worthy piano part; or the two-piano version of the Symphonic Dances. All towering masterpieces.
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The third concerto is my favorite, and the second one is pretty close. Amazing music all of them!
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My favorite concertos are concerto 1 and Rachmaninoff/Warenberg piano concerto nr 5
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All great but I love Rach 2!
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Rach 2! Then Rach 3, Rach 1 and Paganini in joint second place, followed by Rach 4.
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Rach 3...D minor
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3 and then the Rhapsody. Followed by 4, 2, 1
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I am currently studying Rach 2, which is the piece most beautiful i have ever learnt.
Second to this is Rach 3. Then Rhapsody over a theme by Paganini.
by the way, i would like to see a kind of tutorial or máster class on Rach 2 in Tonebase.