Sergei Rachmaninoff - Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1909)

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  • @UncannyComics
    @UncannyComics 10 месяцев назад +37

    I think what is particularly amazing about Rachmaninoff’s writing here is that he manages to create such an engaging narrative that still holds to the atmosphere of the original painting. It’s an adaptation of a work as a movie adapts a book.
    Death rows a white figure to the Isle of the Dead. As the figure approaches the island it becomes clear what the island is. Life is remembered. Love is felt again, as is, beauty, wonder, warmth, cold, hate, and fear. In the devastating climax at 15:15, the figure crosses over and the journey has ended.
    But we the listener are left behind. We don’t get to glimpse the other side of the island. Instead, we watch as death collects himself and rows back out into the water.
    Now, I obviously don’t know what Rachmaninoff was thinking when he wrote this. Who knows how many times he even saw the painting? It’s not like he could search it online. (Although, maybe he had a print of it. And I think there are multiple versions of it) But these are just my thoughts on the piece. And as a composer who also adapted a panting to orchestra a few years ago, I have a special interest in this sort of transformation. Thanks for readin’.

  • @alanpotter8680
    @alanpotter8680 Год назад +96

    This is truly the highest tier of orchestration imaginable. The complexity of emotions swirling around in each and every bar, is remarkable.

    • @markodern789
      @markodern789 7 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly what I was thinking. The texture, density of sound, and sonic effects he creates, you think to yourself - how can you even come up with this?

    • @frederickthegreat4801
      @frederickthegreat4801 6 месяцев назад +2

      Though it's not bad, I would say he is easily surpassed in orchestration skills by many composers, such as, Wagner, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Franz Schreker, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and many, many others.

    • @alanpotter8680
      @alanpotter8680 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@frederickthegreat4801 There's always someone like you to ruin the fun. Since I never said that Rachmaninoff is the best of the best, just that his orchestration is of highest tier, can you tell us, the illiterate, how did you measure exactly the orchestration skills of Wagner, Mahler, Strauss..etc and what technique did you use to compare it against Rachmaninoff?
      Back to the original topic.... knowing all the repertoire of Mahler, Korngold, etc., I still can't find a piece that possesses such a plethora of feelings in a single bar. Rachmaninoff is the king of making themes from just a few random notes. It's very obvious in his sonatas and is obvious here.
      Also this piece was heavily used as an inspiration in one of the Harry Potter scores.

    • @frederickthegreat4801
      @frederickthegreat4801 3 месяца назад +1

      @@alanpotter8680 Jesus Christ chill bruh i'm not advocating for the destruction of his legacy, I was just putting him up against some other composers. I didn't measure anything, it's just my opinion that there are better orchestrators and if you like Rachmaninoff, then who cares? That's your opinion.

    • @alanpotter8680
      @alanpotter8680 Месяц назад +1

      @@frederickthegreat4801 I don't mind opinions, but it was you who made a statement that this, this this and this composer were better at this than that other composer, not me. I simply noted that I don't like people like you, always trying to insert their opinion masquerading as a fact in every other topic. You continue to ruin the fun, though.

  • @markleneker9923
    @markleneker9923 2 года назад +32

    To use popular vernacular: this piece is a whole mood.

  • @steveegallo3384
    @steveegallo3384 2 года назад +36

    Rakhmaninov at his Best....and the section starting at 11:05 is a Zenith of All Music....Ingenious! Such finely-cut intricately-vivisected harmonies.....

    • @joshuasussman8112
      @joshuasussman8112 Год назад +3

      Awesome piece and a great section, but if this is your zenith, you need to get out more.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Год назад +2

      @@joshuasussman8112 -- Apparently, "@alanpotter8680," just below agrees with me. Rakhmaninov's Vocalise and Symphony #2 Adagio are, too, Zeniths. Also the last 4 minutes of Bruckner's 4th. Strange though to get advice from a slacking mediocrity who's clearly in a persistent vegetative state. Cheers from Acapulco!

    • @joshuasussman4020
      @joshuasussman4020 Год назад +2

      What exactly is it a zenith of? I can’t imagine the category. It’s not an epoch-making work like Machaut’s Mass, the B minor Mass or Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s 9th or Late Quartets, Pierrot Lunaire or the Rige of Spring. Even if you were to narrow it down to a micro-niche like the Late Romantic Russian Symphony, Tschaikovsky’s 5th and 6th may nudge it out.
      So may I ask what this piece (and even more so, the Vocalise) is the zenith of?
      Even your Bruckner example, which I love, is not the zenith of his own production, which certainly has to be the 8th and 9th, let alone the zenith of symphonic music.
      Might you have been hyperbolic?

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Год назад

      @@joshuasussman4020 -- I misspoke...you're correct. Then again...Who could anticipate a forensic investigation, being grilled in this gentle forum by some reïncarnation of Francisco, Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros but without the benefit of Pope Sixtus IV's intervention? [You already know that I'm in Acapulco. I'll finish my thought when you divulge your location]

    • @elliottherring5021
      @elliottherring5021 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@joshuasussman4020​a bit late, but I think he just means that it’s his favorite musical segment he has listened to yet, along with the adagio and vocalise.

  • @Creen_Crayon
    @Creen_Crayon 8 месяцев назад +17

    Perhaps, this is hell.

  • @inanis9801
    @inanis9801 2 года назад +46

    This has always been one of my favourite pieces and I've never been able to identify why.

    • @paulbizard3493
      @paulbizard3493 2 года назад

      Maybe you are the reincarnation of Rachmaninoff ? OMG ! 😱Lol, just kidding. Ha got ya !

    • @inanis9801
      @inanis9801 2 года назад +6

      @@paulbizard3493 I wish if my compositions where even slightly as moving as his it would be a miracle

    • @paulbizard3493
      @paulbizard3493 2 года назад +4

      @@inanis9801 I'm no musician, but I can understand that music can make someone crazy ! Good luck with your compositions. 👍

    • @michaelgrier2358
      @michaelgrier2358 2 года назад +2

      Crowley listened to this during his ritual to summon an elemental

    • @cubycube9924
      @cubycube9924 Год назад +2

      Same this piece is a masterpiece

  • @arrigolupo3690
    @arrigolupo3690 Год назад +27

    I wonder whether 5/8 has anything to do with the somewhat asymmetric movement of rowing (the boat in Böcklin's painting).

    • @СолнечныйПарус-р7щ
      @СолнечныйПарус-р7щ Год назад +4

      I think, yes, this is swaying on the waves of the prow [an archaic shallop] of Charon or other carriers of the deceased people.

    • @ritapoli4817
      @ritapoli4817 7 месяцев назад

      Si il due più tre è il remare poi diventa tre più due e quella è l’onda , è un brano fantastico con una grande orchestrazione suonarlo per me stata una grande emozione 🎻

    • @arrigolupo3690
      @arrigolupo3690 7 месяцев назад

      @@ritapoli4817 Anche in Haendel, ma solo per 20 secondi di musica, c'è un'associazione tra il remare è il metro in 5, in questo caso 3+2. Nell' "Orlando" il protagonista, in preda alla follia, crede di essere salito su una barca e dice "già solco l'onde" in 5/8, una nota per sillaba.

  • @resonanceofambition
    @resonanceofambition Год назад +36

    Remember our promise.

    • @dsch0
      @dsch0 11 месяцев назад +9

      She will never dance with us again...

  • @pierrelouis8877
    @pierrelouis8877 Год назад +5

    Quelle partition fabuleuse ! Merci pour le partage.

  • @DJPastaYaY
    @DJPastaYaY 8 месяцев назад +3

    Wow this is impactful

  • @ShaunakDesaiPiano
    @ShaunakDesaiPiano 7 месяцев назад +6

    This is Rachmaninov’s Totentanz. A piece based on death, filled with Dies Irae. Although while Totentanz is the Dance of Death, Isle of the Dead is more like the stillness of death.

  • @notaire2
    @notaire2 2 года назад +7

    Wunderschöne Interpretation dieser spätromantischen und ein bisschen bedrohlichen Sinfonischen Dichtung mit gut vereinigten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelligente und erfahrene Dirigent leitet das perfekt trainierte Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit künstlerisch kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt hörenswert!

  • @Dylonely_9274
    @Dylonely_9274 2 года назад +70

    Rachmaninoff was rather underrated as an orchestral composer.

  • @dissonanceparadiddle
    @dissonanceparadiddle 7 месяцев назад +5

    In a world where Fantasia 2 came out and World war II never happened This would have made for an incredible backdrop for a sequence

  • @PhilippeBrun-qy3st
    @PhilippeBrun-qy3st Год назад +3

    Merci pour cette merveilleuse oeuvre aussi belle que envoûtante...

  • @user-19.19.v
    @user-19.19.v Год назад +9

    Great Russian music and literature cannot be abolished and banned. This is genius!!!

  • @duqueadriano0081
    @duqueadriano0081 2 года назад +26

    15:08 most hopeless climax of music history

    • @GarnetSunset
      @GarnetSunset Год назад +8

      I make the most hopeless climaxes on my own thank you

  • @박상현-u3d
    @박상현-u3d 2 года назад +4

    Thanks for uploading full score.

  • @aidjjh7791
    @aidjjh7791 7 месяцев назад +1

    Came here coz ( BETWEEN SEASONS ) these pieces such wonderful creation

  • @harrybmichell
    @harrybmichell 4 месяца назад +2

    6:59 celli 🔥🔥🔥

  • @mysteriev7071
    @mysteriev7071 Год назад +9

    Such a beautiful, emotional and melancholic piece. Yes it gets loud and intense, but that's just to prepare us for the growth. I'm writing this in the month of Cancer, which is the hottest period of the year. People born in this period are very exentric and passionate about their work. They are not afraid to reveal the hidden truth inside them, they will open their shell for you no matter how rude you are to them.
    This piece is possibly one of the purest that I know.
    In the Island of the dead, they rest. They rest because they simply feel good, and don't see it necessary to change anything in the external world. They can sleep when they want, they will work if the world calls. Entering into that island is a very hard journey and shall not be forced, because we are all going into that island at our own pace. Once we fully enter it, what we'll find is that nothing has changed at all, everything is still, even if the process takes lots of turbulence.
    Let us all embrace our growth, not hide it from the world.

  • @stefanodigarbo4735
    @stefanodigarbo4735 11 месяцев назад +2

    Perfect intro to Behemoth's next concert. Wondrous

  • @archlich4489
    @archlich4489 3 месяца назад

    So THAT'S where I heard this... It's been a long time!

  • @colinmoore317
    @colinmoore317 8 месяцев назад

    One of the greatest orchestral works ❤

  • @gaydvorak7053
    @gaydvorak7053 2 года назад +6

    8:20

  • @kelly9271
    @kelly9271 Год назад +1

    Fabuloso,um mangá me trouxe aqui kkk

  • @jeppgd5183
    @jeppgd5183 Год назад +2

    I’m guessing this is the recording with
    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Orchestra: Concertgebouworkest

  • @dddccc5174
    @dddccc5174 2 года назад +1

    thank you

  • @georgegordonbyron84
    @georgegordonbyron84 2 года назад +3

    Danke

  • @MFGod_Hand
    @MFGod_Hand Год назад +15

    I made a promise.

    • @dsch0
      @dsch0 10 месяцев назад +3

      I've tried to teach Elster how to dance. It's so cute how clumsy she can be when it comes to these things.

    • @sean-kb4wr
      @sean-kb4wr 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@dsch0Elster is underrated

  • @cminor3016
    @cminor3016 Год назад +2

    Long live Sergie Rachmaninoff

  • @MultiRedskins12
    @MultiRedskins12 3 месяца назад +1

    Gorgeous quintuple meter

  • @sean-kb4wr
    @sean-kb4wr 9 месяцев назад

    Prince rostislav is so much more sophisticated, but, I need to have a couple more listens to this

  • @eric-hg3yv
    @eric-hg3yv Год назад

    lo amee

  • @ChillinDylan2875
    @ChillinDylan2875 Год назад +1

    9:09
    9:01

  • @magarac99
    @magarac99 Год назад +1

    Gushing late Romanticism

  • @freddoliveira
    @freddoliveira Год назад

    ...

  • @HarrodUla-z7i
    @HarrodUla-z7i 3 месяца назад

    Moore Sarah Taylor Thomas Johnson Melissa

  • @stilniy_huligan
    @stilniy_huligan 4 месяца назад

    мое любимое произведение - ГОВНО ПРО ЛЕСБУХ

    • @archlich4489
      @archlich4489 3 месяца назад

      Это звучит очень необычно.

  • @floridianbat
    @floridianbat 2 года назад +5

    I never knew Rachimaninoff could be this emotional and listenable after mostly ever hearing his dry repetitive meaningless piano concerti - I tell you Russians are meant to compose for the orchestra, leave piano works for the West Europeans

    • @erika6651
      @erika6651 2 года назад +3

      Er, Scriabin?

    • @l.uis162
      @l.uis162 2 года назад +37

      Quite the controversial take on his piano concerti..

    • @sandryushka
      @sandryushka 2 года назад +43

      With all due respect, I'm an inkling away from supposing you are a troll. I am most likely biased. But using the words 'repetitive meaningless piano concerti' and 'Rachmaninoff' in the same sentence leaves the author of these words with a lot to answer for.

    • @erika6651
      @erika6651 2 года назад

      @@sandryushka Well, if you think about it, how often are the 1st and 4th performed?

    • @stefanoferlaino1895
      @stefanoferlaino1895 2 года назад +2

      I don t like the 4th concerto me too, but the first it s great