It’s funny how when I was much younger, I had considered it oh such a chore to play this, that it was oh so boring and slow moving and nothing very much happens. I just wanted the storms in the first movement and the action in the third movement thank you very much. [That’s why [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rachmaninov’
opus 13 – adagio cantabile
Posted in random thoughts, tagged beethoven, chopin, mela v. world, music, rachmaninov, work on 15 May, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
so much more than romance
Posted in random thoughts, tagged music, performances, rachmaninov on 22 June, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he thought, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto – or the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second. Men have not found the words for it nor [...]
rachmaninov for romance
Posted in random thoughts, tagged family life, lion, motherhood, Peanut, rachmaninov on 10 June, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We decided after a couple of months to change the sleeping music in our room upstairs because the Largo CD was frankly driving the two of us slightly bananas. We hate the last few songs and for the last weeks, have been turning it off once Peanut falls asleep. So now we have a selection [...]
