Sergei Rachmaninoff ‒ Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943), Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3 (1892)
Performed by Konstantin Scherbakov
00:00 - No. 1 Elegie in E-flat minor
06:00 - No. 2 Prelude in C-sharp minor
09:54 - No. 3 Melody in E major
14:32 - No. 4 Polichinelle in F-sharp minor
17:48 - No. 5 Serenade in B-flat minor
Whilst preparing for a concert at Kharkov (400 miles south of Moscow), Rachmaninov decided to add a group of other pieces (originally three, finally four) to the Prelude, to make a set which Gutheil published in February 1893 as his Opus 3, the Morceaux de Fantaisie. The five pieces were dedicated to Arensky, one of his Conservatory professors. Because of the popularity of the Prelude, the Opus 3 pieces are rarely played as a group. When they are the range and subtlety of Rachmaninov’s compositional genius (even at the age of nineteen) become apparent. The emotional range is wide: from the deep tragedy of the Prelude to the joyous character of the Serenade, and the whimsy of Polichinelle. The subtlety is shown by the fact that a tiny melodic cell-the semitonal fall, or its extension the whole-tone step and their inversions-is heard at the beginning of every one of the five pieces. Whilst it is too much to claim that this gives the pieces a unity of organic strength (of which Rachmaninov was certainly capable), it is fascinating to see how this tiny cell is used again and again in these pieces. In passing, one should note also that this semitonal fall begins the Dies irae, almost the idée fixe in this composer’s mature compositions.
As we know, the Prelude was composed first, so the remaining pieces had to be ‘placed’ around it. One of Rachmaninov’s close friends at that time, the tenor Mikhail Slonov, suggested the title ’Polichinelle’ for what became the fourth piece. As mentioned earlier, it was Rachmaninov’s intention to compose a set of four pieces, but he added a fifth on reading an interview which Tchaikovsky had given to a newspaper critic in November 1892, when he said he felt he had to give younger talents a chance, and mentioned Glazunov, Arensky and Rachmaninov as the most outstanding of the younger school. Rachmaninov was so thrilled; as he said at the time, ‘I sat down at the piano and composed a fifth piece (the Serenade). So now I’ll publish five pieces.’
Rachmaninov premiered the complete Morceaux de Fantaisie in Kharkov on December 27th, and two months later to the day he gave Tchaikovsky one of the first copies of the newly-published set. A week later, Tchaikovsky wrote to Siloti saying how impressed he had been with them, especially the Prelude and the Mélodie. In the event, the Prelude proved a double-edged success. On the one hand, it soon travelled throughout the world (in the 1920s in New York, Rachmaninov heard the Paul Whiteman Band play a jazz version, which he much enjoyed, and had a similar experience in a London restaurant). It spread the fame of the young composer in such a way that by the time he was in his early twenties his name was known to a large international public. On the other hand the very popularity of the work came to curse him later in life, when he became a touring virtuoso: audiences would not let him leave without playing the piece as an encore. Furthermore, in 1893 Russia was not a signatory to any international copyright agreement, so all Rachmaninov ever received for a piece that was played and broadcast millions of times during his life was the forty roubles Gutheil paid for it (he gave two hundred roubles for the five pieces), and the royalties from his subsequent recordings of it. Towards the end of his life Rachmaninov revised three of the five pieces: in 1938 he made a transcription for two pianos of the Prelude, and in 1940 completely revised the Mélodie and Serenade.
(Hyperion)
I've never heard the Prelude played like that before. Love it.
Fantastic pianist. His performance of the Polichinelle was incredible, dare I say perfect; 15:59 he really makes that quintessential Rachmaninov melody sing with so much color, and the way he plays the chords at 17:20 is just ecstasy. The Serenade is also great.
I’m learning the Polichinelle for my diploma, and listening to this version just points out how different it can sound from pianist to pianist and must agree that this is the cleanest, clearest and most precise that I have found on RUclips 😮
Years searching for 6:00 Prelude in C-sharp minor. Couldn't remember the name at that time. Almost 13 years ago. Finally found it and I'm in bliss
Scherbakov is an exceptional pianist.
Szergej Rachmaninov:Fantázia darabok Op.3
1.Elégia (Moderato - Piú vivo - Tempo I) 00:05
2.cisz-moll Prelűd (Lento - Agitato - Tempo I) 06:00
3.E-dúr Melódia (Adagio sostenuto) 09:54
4.Polichinelle (Allegro vivace - Agitato) 14:33
5.Szerenád (Sostenuto - Tempo di Valse) 17:50
Konstantin Scherbakov-zongora
There is always good people that notice this for the video, thankyou!!!
I heard Konstantin Scherbakov playing a piano recital live at the Endler Hall in Stellenbosch University. It was an experience to be remembered! His technique is something to behold but it was the way he made the piano sing when he performed Mussorgsky's "pictures at an exhibition"! Phenomenal Pianist indeed!
Thank you, Medtnaculus. To hear these as a little family is fantastic. You have shared so much with all of us. Thank you for all of these jewels.
Thank you for writing such a complete and detailed description about this Opus. It's very interesting to discover and understand the context in which it was written, the impact it first drew and the impressions of his peers. It helps put into perspective how great of a composer Rachmaninoff was.
Only now realized op. 3 is a set of pieces and not just the prelude in C minor. The other pieces in the opus are showing his genius again. Sublime.
How lovely. It's wonderful to discover new pieces every day. Thanks so much!
You're very welcome. Luckily for you Rachmaninoff has plenty of fantastic music in his catalogue, so you should be able to find plenty more you enjoy. Happy listening!
YES! Discovered this on 4 January 2017. But, yes, that prelude became the tail that wagged the dog. The problem is that the prelude is so popular on a superficial level, that one can overlook how well constructed it really is. "Not just a pretty face.".
I'm learning the Elegie and it's amazing to cross with an amazing text
No 2 is the part that makes op 3 one of my favorite rachmaninoff works. simply stunning
I just discovered this most dramatic piece by Rachmaninoff and already its become a favorite
How does he achieve such clarity on the upper note and blends the lower two notes out? 7:30
Strong pinky
Seeing as you're one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, you should already know.
@@danielpaul8734 nah it's not strong pinky. he's using the correct movements so you put more weight on the pinky
Legato the fourth and fifth finger, also wrist movements to put more weight on the pinky. I managed to bring out melody like hat straight away
šuriņbērniem
S. Rahmaņinovs cis moll (op.3 nr.2)
pamat. [zvanu atveide, S.Rahmaņinovam ļoti tipisks tēls] 6:00 jeb 0:00 ( pārveidojums reprīzē 8:08 jeb 2:30 )
vidusp. [saviļņotas pārdomas] 7:28 jeb 1:40
00:08 «Пьесы-фантазии» op. 3: Элегия
06:00 «Пьесы-фантазии» op. 3: Прелюдия cis-moll
9:00 koda Preludii cis (kolokola)
cis moll (op.3 nr.2):
pamat. [zvanu atveide, S.Rahmaņinovam ļoti tipisks tēls] 6:00 .
der pievērst vērību tēmas pārveidojumam reprīzē 8:08)
vidusp. [saviļņotas pārdomas] 7:28
Впервые слышу такое потрясающее исполнение "Мелодии". Спасибо!!!!
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Yalnız değilmişim 😁
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I’ve learned the Elegie, idk if I should learn the rest of the opus. The Polichinelle seems really hard. The hardest piece I can play is Scriabin’s Op. 8 No. 2 Etude. I might give it a try once I have time.
I'm not sure how hard Scriabin's etude is, but #4 of this set is MUCH easier than it looks and sounds. Just try sight reading it once
Great pianist, and a really lovely piece.
I've got a pretty good feeling Rach had Chopin's Nocturne op.27 no.1 on mind when he composed the Elegie here. Very similar stucture and feelings.
I think his voicing is really good, but I just miss a lot of POWER in especially the elegy- around the climax and in the ending - or the famous prelude. These parts need a fiery passion; one that might nearly consume the listener! I really miss that in his playing.
20:45 in the final piece of Chopin's Funeral March Sonata it ends like this! Probably it inspired Rachmaminoff
imagine u were composing this right now. try... u cant. in this special moment, rachmaninov hat a connecntion to god/universe/higher being, fulfilling his existence.
Bro 💀💀💀
I can.
@@daph0307me too
But... Rachmaninoff hated this piece.
Nope Rachmaninov was just depressed
The melodies are very clear in this performance.
şarkının ruhu: hüzünlü, hırçın ve duygusal.
I find this recording very standard, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't let the piano sing, it's played too strict, he plays mezzo forte when it's triple forte... not what Rachmaninov is about.
Espectacular. Parecerá un tópico pero es cierto... Las palabras se quedan cortas ante tanta belleza.
Gorgeous piece!!! Definitely he is genius!!!
his 1940 revision of the Melodie, available on YT i think, reflects a more mature understanding as well as reflecting the influence of his contemporary Godowsky.
And he revised the last movement too. In my estimation i prefer the "innocence of this version" i thought the revisions in a sense erased the cohesion of the the set... Just my thought I truly have adored the set as is!
Потрясающе, спасибо!
great pianist
Amazing! Beautiful and profound performance ！
8:09 When you have to read from 4 staves for the rest of the piece
Aski memnuniyet ten geldim
a bit too silent, I can't hear some of the notes
Florian Ulrich its pianissimo
i wonder if some of them are missing from the left hand. I can not hear either.
The audio could have seriously been set louder. When I play it on max on my phone, I still can't hear the silent parts properly.
I think so. Rachmaninoff himself play louder and faster. This one is too slow to me(Elegia)
@@notafraid605 of course you can't hear it properly on the tiny, terrible speaker on your phone. Do you even like music? Why would you ever ruin nuanced and dynamic music by listening on your phone?
это как моя душа русская я рад что нашел это !
Rachmaninov zenéje elragadó, zseniális, talán verhetetlen is számomra, főleg persze a zongora dominancia okán. Chopin, Liszt és a romantika nagy összegzője.
Maga a csoda.
I recommend Czerny Op.268 II movement
fantastic performance. Amazing pianist.
υπεροχος !!!!! και στην ερμηνεια και στον ηχο....
When the prelude is more of an elegy than the elegy
Is the last part of op 3 no 2 optional measures?
Composed at nineteen?!
@-insert forgettable name- yes you are. Fucker.
@@l.1244 RUDE
@Barrack Obama Vlogs Yeah... you are... unless you think that long spans of lethargy, sleeping and eating problems, obsessions, intrusive thoughts, times in which you don't feel like yourself and can literally forget who you are, and reoccurring, sincere wishes to die are necessary for a complete life. Mental illness isn't just about contemplating mortality while listening to Rachmaninoff and staring sadly out of a rainy windowpane.
I'm jealous.
Nádherné! ....Děkuji !
7:45
i am playi
ng the prelude
amazing interpretation
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No. 4 Polichenelle is in F-sharp Phrygian, meaning a two sharp key signature would be more accurate.
Fondamentalement S.V.Rachmaninoff ne voulait pas plus que ça être un grand pianiste mais un grand compositeur , un ambassadeur de son pays ;
Il a été les deux ...
Beautiful ❤
Beautiful.
8:04 ?
Scherbakov showing that he could pull a Katsaris too
8:09
"Pit of vipers" start be like:
6:00
No. 4 and 5 are the best
No....Number 1 is the best.....but you were CLOSE!
Agreed. No. 4 is one of my new favorite Rach pieces, and 5 is reminiscent of a Mazurka. The sound of the chords at 19:13 really makes the piece.
I don’t agree.I say no.1 and 2 are the best.
I would love to know the edition you have posted here. The edition I own has wrong notes in it.
sublime
nice
GraMmARlY dOeS mORe ThaN caTcH ErRorS
its briliant but i mean common, in the Prelude there is like 5 F and it sounds like mf.... :/
I liked it but the interpretation of the prelude was kinda llllg, you know?
From the horses mouth! The best for sure👍
Lol. Man with small hands plays music by man with big hands
Sergei Rachmaninoff's ROAST for small hands....
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Not much substance unfortunately
Please link to your own pieces please.
Jack the Lad what does that have to do with anything?
Rachmaninoff wrote a few decent pieces, but rapidly ran out of ideas. Mostly a keyboard thumper.
Said the guy who probably hears programmatic music from Mozart all day. Lmao.
Stupid comment.
That comment would be more applicable to Grieg of whom I own a recording of the original version of his piano concerto. I cannot bear to hear his final desecration which is most often heard. For throughout his life Grieg continued through revisions to destroy his original mssterpiece, leaving a concerto remnant almost as lifeless as the piano concerto by Scriabin who composed unlike Grieg masterpieces in orchestral & solo piano music.
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Have you ever played Rachmaninoff? I started learning piano at the age of 9 a little over 12 years ago. I've been increasingly dabbling with Rachmaninoff ever since I was 16. I'm 21 now and yet each time I try learning a new piece by him, NO two pieces by him are very similar. Take his set of OP. 39 for instance. Number 5 sounds like what you'd hear at a high class restaurant at night, no 7 sounds like a transcendental and spiritual experience, and 9 like you're ready to take action.
His piano concertos have enormous variety too! His 1st one is regal, formal and aristocratic. His 2nd is spiritual, his 3rd intense and his last, highly introverted, exotic and intellectual (my favorite as a result).
His trio elegiaque no 1 and 2 are very various. His first one is drop-dead beautiful and I can play it from start to finish. His second is the most beautiful form of depression I've ever heard!
What really caused him to stop composing as much as when he was younger was multi-fold. He had a family to raise, bills to pay and he had to leave his home country due to the political situation. So, yeah.
For if with age you gather responsibility, cynicism and wisdom, with youth, you have an abundance of creativity, energy and dynamism coupled with optimism about life. Rachmaninoff's youthfulness ran out when he was rather young due to his natural depressed disposition, much like myself. I guess, the old saying that those with Eastern European blood in them (me as my parents both have ancestry from there) is naturally pessimistic about things.
Because what's a travesty about culture today (particularly here in America) is that if you don't have positive "vibes" or attitude, people immediately ostracizie you. Well guess what, quit straw manning the depressed as the problem. Maybe the happy go-lucky crowd of the ignorant masses is the problem. Or if not ignorant, arrogant in not only being happy, but demanding everyone else conform to their ideology of worshipping those with positive and radiant attitudes, inasmuch as to dismiss the sad as pathetic.
You know what's pathetic: refusing to acknowledge that much of human existence forever before our time, and forever onward is characterized by emptiness, meaninglessness, chaos, and immutable noise. It takes enormous psychological and spiritual muscle to move forward in life being self-aware at any capacity, but those who are "ignorant" of this appear to be the "strong ones." Nonsense, they simply aren't "aware" of things in a deep level.
I will always thank Rachmaninoff and his works that I studied and continue to study, for partly opening up my eyes as a young teen and adult. I don't need recreational and experimental drugs, Rachmaninoff's music is my "spiritual" and "meditative" experience away from this materialistic world!
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