SURFACE HARMONIES - Rachmaninoff Prelude in G# minor Op. 32 no. 12 - Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Pianist Henrik Kilhamn looks at the short and sweet Rachmaninoff Prelude in G# minor, no. 12 from the set of Op. 32. A solemn melody in the tenor runs through the piece, with a lot of exciting harmonies and textures on the surface.
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Analysis
15:00 Performance
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G sharp minor Op. 32 no. 12 (1910)
📄 Score: A. Gutheil, first edition (1911), imslp.org
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How can a so highly valuable and informative channel be so criminal under-subscribed? It's just devastating.
I love your analysis , i get so inspired to write my own music when you break down Rachs and Scriabins music. Please make more analysis on Scriabin and Rach ❤️
Both are in the pipeline actually!
@@SonataSecrets can you please do one on the entire Rachmaninoff second sonata?
Thank you for this video. Words lack the essence needed to capture the beauty of this piece...
I like how the dramatic middle section makes the theme go lower when it returns, it's so menacing !
You make it look so easy. But I know it's not. Another five years practice required. That lovely big Em chord near the end sends a shiver down my spine every time!
Your analysis helps me understand why I love Rachmaninoff's music so much.
wow! very intresting, i love the new idea of filming the keyboard, very usefull!
I could watch your videos all day. Would LOVE to see you delve into some of Rach's Etudes Tableaux. I feel you've elucidated things that have evaded my perception, even though I've listened to these pieces hundreds of times.
Interesting comment about shimmering waters. Always made me think of the path of a leaf in the wind considering how it starts quiet and picks up for a moment only to settle again.
Thank you for this analysis series! Please keep going!
I will do a couple of more preludes! :)
Wonderful video! Inspiring for some composition ideas too! ❤Thank you!
Well said. Like the human condition excitement on the surface but not much progression. The inner voices make the interest. So well dissected and played. Thank you
This was really enjoyable and thanks for making such a well thought out video...very enjoyable and educational as well! I love this prelude and now I understand it more🎵🙏
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it :)
Thank you for sharing!!
Wonderful analysis and performance! I'm polishing this piece and you really inspired me! Thank you so much!
Thank you, glad to hear it!
Great analysis and video as always. Keep it up!
Thanks!
Happened upon your channel. Extremely informative. Now I subscribe to all of your content. Thank you!
Happy to hear it, welcome to the channel!
I think this is my favorite piece of his, it sounds like a struggle or maybe it's the zany qualities it possesses or maybe it's the shimmering RH over the sad LH melody. Very good rendition at the end.
So good! Thank you for the analysis! Do you think you’ll ever do some Bortkiewicz like his prelude op. 33 no. 8?
I was not familiar with Bortkiewicz before so thanks for bringing him to my attention. Sounds lovely!
You have an amazing channel.
Very good playing ✅
Amazing sounds coming from that piano.. do you play any concerts in Sweden? Would really like to see a live performance of these great pieces you play here.
I have messed with this prelude for decades. As soon as I master Granados' "El Pelele" I'm gonna tackle Rach again.
Thank you again Henrik! Your selection of pieces really does it for me. By the way, is this Rach piece doable with small-ish hands? (a bit more than an octave)
Then you have very good taste ;)
In general Rachmaninoff can be hard on small hands, I feel myself it would be easier to play certain passages with hands in Rachmaninoff's own size (he could apparently reach C-G), and I have 'only' comfortable C-E. But I suppose this prelude is not that impossible. A lot of the big chords you should roll anyway. The "fanfare" is the hardest part I think, for the downward 16th movement in LH, so maybe look at that before deciding.
Me parece explendido!lástima que la traducción al Español no me funciona.Gran pianista, y magnífica la explicación sobre el analisis de la obra..
Hi good morning. I think what this prelude can be compared to the initial approach of the concert study by Liszt Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs).
Great channel! I played this piece for years. Just watch the note on 5:50, it should still be f double sharp (g) rather than f sharp in that chord. A common mistake because it also sounds good, but Rachmaninoff makes it more dramatic with the f double sharp
hehe you're right it should be fx! Someone else commented on this as well, I was too careless in my learning there.
I meant to add that I have yet to find a recording of this that I like. Any recommendations?
very nice analysis on this haunting, melancholic and poignant (which fits rachmaninoff's temperament nicely) prelude, i would love to see analysis on the op 32 no 4 or the last of the op32 in dflat major. BTW i think there is an error in the title (should be no 12 not 2...?)
Oops, corrected, thanks for noticing! I haven't played those two preludes unfortunately, but will do no 10 from op 32 at least!
Could you do an analysis about chopin's nocturne in g minor op.37 no.1?
I have a question, the arpeggio in both hands starting from 12:28: you seem to be playing the E with the left hand at the exactly same time as the first note of the right hand. Is this correct? I always thought that you need to play all the notes in this arpeggio in succession...
Kind of irrelevant, but I liked your analysis of Chopin's Prelude in E minor. I love that piece, it was the first piece by Chopin that I had learned
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! It's one of the best performing videos on the channel actually.
I really like this video, can You make an analysis of Rachmaninov Vespers? 😊
Love it! But I think there is still an F double sharp at 5:58 making it B augmented!
Ouch, this is embarassing, you are absolutely right it should be Fx! I just learned it too quickly... (it's still a mediant at root at least though)
@@SonataSecrets no worries at all, and I really enjoyed your interpretation!
Impressive ears!
Please make analysis on Leos Janacek y Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
I’m new here! I love the music 🎶 🎵
Welcome to the channel!
@@SonataSecrets Thanks
Which piano it is?
It's an old German Rönisch!
@@SonataSecrets thanks
Some spanish influence here?
MAN, you skipped the analyse of the hardest progression modulations, why? and just giving the name to chords is not a harmonic hanalyse. you should analyse progressions modulation in the deep with perns chords etc... this can be done even for a 5 years kid. and that is not a modulastion to B major..its a III of G shrp still a grade most common use to create variations the the 4+4 sentence part. You understand few things of this prelude.. 7:44 man some scales? that is a hell Hard progression.. lol