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November / Month of the Sonata – 12
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“
Portrait of the Composer Sergei Rachmaninov
“
(1925)
Konstantin Somov
__________
Rachmaninov, late Romantic, early
Impressionist, yanked, despite his
modern bent, Romanticism, solidly,
into the Twentieth Century, we
heard him in movies, and
consequently on TV, back then, on
long-play albums, 78s at the time,
that were flooding the market, first
movement on the one side, the next
two on the other, that’s how we used
to listen
later, we’d hear
Sergeant Pepper’s
Lonely Heart’s Club Band
doing the
same, in the late ’60s, before discs
Rachmaninov doesn’t sound like
Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert, but
you can hear their roots, their blood
running through his compositions
but here, in his
Piano Sonata no. 2,
Opus 36
,
he elaborates, a sure sign
of Impressionism, intellectual rather
than emotional appeal, something
had become tiresome after half a
century of Romantic dramatization,
how many
Anna Karenina
‘s can you
take
the culture was returning to objective,
rather than emotional, Charles Dickens,
Victor Hugo, and the like, bleeding-heart,
considerations, and seeking out more
rational answers to our psychological
stresses, consequently Freud, music
had to keep up
later, I’ll tell you a story about how
music changes the world
meanwhile, here’s
Rachmaninov’s
Piano Sonata no 2
enjoy
R ! chard
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November 12, 2023
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