Rachmaninoff: Élégie in E Flat Minor, Op. 3, No. 1 (1892)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Nate Koch, piano.
This piece begins with mournful, melancholic melody, always moving on the off-beat, that gradually builds in intensity in 3rds and 6ths.
A warm, comforting melody wells up from the bass at (2:22) and slowly builds to a soaring climax (3:17).
The music crashes back down to earth and almost dies out, before the first theme re-emerges, even more beautiful and sad than before (4:16).
It concludes with one last struggle and a final collapse (5:25).
Your performance is the best I've EVER heard. It's more emotional, no hurrying - that's the way it's supposed to be! Brilliant!
I love this piece. The amazing Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan used it in his 2014 Olympic figure skating short program. As with any Rachmaninoff, it is so tough to play well, which this performer definitely does.
Thanks for the compliment :)
so far the best interpretation, to me.
Very sensitive, expressive performance with a lot of depth and dynamics. I very much enjoyed it.
If there are angels, this is their language.
And this is the interpretation this work deserves. So many are too hurried in their interpretation that the beauty of the work is missed. This work is my absolute favorite piano piece, and yours is my new favorite performance. Very well done!
I've been listening this interpretation for almost 10 years and has always been my favorite. It captures the very spirit of Rachmaninov.
Honestly I feel so much more emotion from this recording than I do others. Especially around 3:33, that section is just so impactful. I'm glad your's was the first I listened to, it gave me a great impression of this piece.
Well you guys that don't like the tempo, I just have to say ... it gets favorited almost once a day and tons of people have put it into playlists, so, I think you might just be the vocal minority :)
big time rush did a great cover of this song
now do the cha cha slide
The heck?
Its called a piece not a song ...
@@gabrieledallalonga9877 Big time rush did a great piece of this song
Nate, you've a great talent. Thank you for sharing this.
What an incredible interpretation this piece! I can really feel so much emotional behind your playing...you're not just rushing through it, trying to make it as virtuosic as possible - you've done a fabulous job with this piece :) You've inspired me to start learning this piece again!
Thanks for the awesome recording!
I've loved this performance for years. thanks.
You are so welcome. That makes me so happy to hear :)
Nate Koch wow! I didn't think you would actually respond. I've listened to many other renditions of this elegy and I do believe this has the best tempo. Do you have an Spotify account to follow? Thanks!
Rachmaninoff is more then other romantics
More than chopin? I dont think so...
+Mauro Gonzalez Yea me too I was thinking the same way, time stands only the best one...
You are deeply mistaken, his genius in modernism.
I prefer Rachmaninoff before Chopin.
Diego A. Loaiza Acosta c’est tout à ton honneur
Amazing performance. The best I have heard of this. I am a dancer not a musician and this has warmth and feeling that speaks to me.
I love your tempo,it's deeply felt.Very convincing performance!
My girlfriend ended our relationship today and this is my only source of consolation
+Miguel Favela, sorry for your loss :( but good to know that this music brings you some comfort. Music has such power, and this piece in particular brings out life's sadness in a beautiful way. Hope things turn for the better for you soon.
+Nate Koch thanks man as Nietzsche once said "life without music would be a mistake"
Omg. Great piece for that tho. Sorry
Breathtaking - both piece and performance.
I am so glad I discovered your playing today. It really transports the listener. Something about Rach that touches me. Thank you. Let me know if you ever play in NYC.
A truly beautiful interpretation.
What a performance !!! Very well done
absolutely loved this interpretation!!!!!!
Your playing sparkles and you are doing some things I really like. I am working on this piece right now . . . I like your building up and not letting go until the end of the phrase!
Qué hermosura de pieza, mara villosa interpretación. No me canso de escucharla !
i think this is played beautifully.....storms and tranquillity adjoining....i am struggling with this piece now for 5 months...hope to get some level of proficiency..before transition (which this music helps prepare me for). Thanks for a magnificent interpretation.
I have just discovered it although I've had the music for ages. It's fantastic!
BEAUTIFUL interpretation!! love it
You played it beautifully. I've heard many others playing this but you control the music and emotions even if its on lower tempo.
Simply beautiful.
Great Rubato!!! incredibly amazing
If Rach could hear you I think he would say..."This is better then my own interpretation!" ....Lovely
When I heard this piece now, I thaught; Oh, what a wonderful piece, I have to play it!
And the this little thaught crossed my mind - I've already played it(just completely forgot about it, I do not know how that happend!!!!)
I like it slow and only this way - very deep and insightfull... Horowitz plays it the same way -
check on youtube - Horowitz in Klin
and Serebryakov - Rachmaninoff Elegie
and Kitain Elegie
Besides - we really DON'T KNOW HOW RACHMANINOFF PLAYED THE ELEGIE - because all the records of Elegie he made were made in mechanic way - not acoustic!
Bravo Nate Koch! Really enjoyed it from all my heart! Every single sound is in its place!
Amazing!
Great job!
Bravo for your original interpretation
Thanks to my friend Myrto Karzi for advising me to hear it!Although I'm not a fan of classical music,I appreciate its value.
This is really beautiful :)
at 5.40 i feel like nothing else exists but that..that very part becomes the whole world..only Rachmaninoff was crazy enough to create something like this
This is played very well. Better than a lot of other interpretations, I like most this played by: Vazgen Vartanian.
Because there the beat is not given so regular like a trotting horse in one hand.
Then it gets a little too slow sometime, nearly stopping. I think music is not written to stop, but to tell stories. But this is played much better than most others, which are total artifically
Magnifique
Very soulful in that particularly Russian manner, ironically stories handed down from contemporary friends of the composer speak affectionately of his sense of humour.
@ Nate, thank you, let's hear his rendition....The Critique used a lot of non-constructive criticism and seemed more destructive than anything else, as if he hated on someone or something...
You played the story, although I don't know what exactly the story is, but good job man!
It's true, the performance is "wrong", in the strictest sense, being as it's not a rigid demonstration of the score. But the exercise in these pieces is to play the music in such a way that you show how the music feels to you. If we all simply played the pieces as "correctly" as possible, we wouldn't need more than 1 recording of each piece. Performing must include some measure of composition. I enjoy and appreciate this performance.
Well some people are more advanced than others and you just happen to be one of those. Just for basic information, it is that hard of a piece so it's not shocking that someone of grade is learning. It's phenomenal that you can play this in the seventh grade but it doesn't make you a better piano player to rub in that fact.
......tempo...your tempo makes this song more epic.
3.30...that's the sex right there! Phenomenal, breathtaking...rachmaninov always finds those little bits to pull you in and just when you think it's over and you can step out the ring, pulls you in deeper!
Every Rach must contain least one orgasm. I'm close to posting two preludes and yeah ... Two more awesome orgasms.
+Nate Koch awesome lol
This piece is almost haunting.
@natachu444 Thanks. Yeah, it's a little confusing. Anyway, thanks for the great performance!
Your tempo is really cool brother. OFF beatings are really awesome too. Sorted out melody really tends to be dramatic xD It's just 1 thing i did not find coool... When you off beat the melody, you play that left hand in the unwavering resolute, monotonic way... I dont think that you should do it. But its really awesome playing though. After svetlanov, one of my favourites!
any tips for someone about to cross into the section with the triplets in the left hand? The section beginning with measure 63 is what I'm talking about...
the end looks pretty nutty too.
Oh, christ.
@m4paionk That's hilarious because my teacher just told me the exact same thing about another piece ... I guess she is right :) But come on, I like it slow! Life is too short to rush through things!
such a beautiful yet ignored key
Play this at my funeral
Anna Karenina (1997 Sophie Marceau) brought me here :)
I am in search of a Rachmaninoff piece that is similar to this one...opens up with higher notes..piano...Any ideas? Anyone?!
Wow the internet is harsh. I think this is brilliant piece, but i've only just heard it.
Lol, yeah, people can be harsh, but I actually loooooove the fact that my interpretation is controversial! It would hurt more if the like to dislike ratio wasn't so high :)
super linda
I like Eb minor I'm trying to write a song in it now
@jeffreysbrother What is it that you need tips about? The change in rhythm? I think I just practiced it by making my metronome beat twice a measure and making sure that both halves of that measure fit evenly ... but as you said it is a beginning of a new section so I think you have a little liberty to play with time there.
@jeffreysbrother I see that I wrote in my music "Pull way back" meaning I wanted to make a new start there to make it easier to really build through that whole section ... It's DEFINITELY the funnest part of the piece! The end is a little crazy but don't worry too much about it ... just let it crash down and burn. You can do it. :)
liked everything except the romantic interpretation of the left hand moving in first followed by the right.... i don't know if this is the piece to do it, but that is only a matter of opinion.
Come to Brazil.
Did Rachmaninoff himself play for this recording!!!!????
@@pbo9186 lollllll hahahahaha
Yes but all dislikes got wiped didn't they? ;). Still I think you're a better pianist than me so i won't be judging like all these other idiots!
Im learning this piece now, and I'm in grade 7 :O, yeah, it's hard, but grade 10? (Level or whatever you call it)
@MilicaVV Try Valse Melancholique.
God dammit I have to play this for my grade 10 exam
What does lazha mean?
Tempo unsteady? It's called rubato.
Was this piece ever in a movie?
Same Tempo as the Moonlight Sonata First movement.
3:15
I am curious, why all the timestamps?
@natachu444 i don't feel it so good when it's played so slow. It doesn't touch your mind.
patrick chan brought me here ;)
რა დამწვრისებს იძახიიიის
I almost thought this was chopin lol
+Serena Chen yea, this is better than chopin..
this piece is very beautiful but incomparable with a prelude of the great chopin. 1 chopin = 10 Rachmaninoff.
It is strikingly similar to Nocturne op. 72 no.1 in E Minor stylistically. My teacher brought that similarity to my attention.
@@maurogonzalez5511 Its not clever to compare two big componists, they have both great music
I think you are one of very single pianists, who can play CHOPIN the way it must be played. You have the inner calmness if not maturity. What others make of Chopin often is disgusting. Shaking their heads forth and back and whirling around their bodies, but that sports doesn't better their music which has faults everywhere. Wrong pauses and emphasises all around, wrong left hand and so on. Chopin doesn't want that! I would like to hear some Chopin played by you. Should be better! :o)
whatever you might have to say on the topic at hand.... keep it to yourself...and, watch your tongue. You are disqualifying yourself, quite unneccassarily...
Россия потеряла такова гения, а жаль.
It is a nice performance, but I think that you don't have the psychological maturity YET for this piece. No offence, you play good but I think that you didn't found the "thread" of this piece :) Russia is a huge, wide country, and their music is a reflection of that. Every single note is perfectly fitting in Rachmaninoff's music, and every note has it's meaning. This has to be played with compassion, imagine the Russian steppes, mountains and tundras and wide landscapes. :)
ugh
lazha
"mess"
Magnifique
2:21
3:40
5:36
5:25
5:40