He looks so peaceful and serene, in this beautiful photo of him playing the piano! He is so happy, content and at home there, more than anywhere else on earth I'm sure! A beautiful man playing beautiful music! Thank heaven for Rachmaninoff! What a beautiful gift for our beautiful planet earth!
If we had a time machine we could see Brahms,Liszt and Rachmaninoff play their Paganini variations along with Paganini himself-I'd probably faint at the virtuosity!
+Antonio Rizzitiello I don't know. I LOVE his music, but just cannot stand hearing him play it. Perhaps it is a case of the recording tech of the time?
+Frank Clark -- same here. I can appreciate historic recordings, and it is great to be able to hear him perform his own works, but for sheer listening enjoyment I'll select a newer recording, such as Lisitsa's.
I was born 2 Years before he died and I don't know why but early on I was listening to all the great composers. By 12 he had become my favorite and every-time I listen to him play, I find myself wishing I had known the person inside the music. I can feel his sadness as though it were my own and I have always been called an optimist. I love having come upon this and not only listen but see pictures of the man who's music I have so long loved. Thank you.
I love Rachmaninov's recordings. He approached music from a very composition orientated view. I find it very interesting and like it a lot. And I love hearing him play his own music.
This composer has got something that attracts me irresistibly...I could listen to his music for hours and hours...and I love him as a instrumentalist too. Rarely complex constructions give instantly a full pleasure like his own creations do. Rach I love you wherever you are. Your music hits the three points...
Thank you so much for uploading this! I used to have the "vinyl" album this had been also recorded on and had given it away MANY years ago to a nursing home before a major move because I'd rather see it enjoyed by others than damaged in a move. This is a real treat! :)
I so identify with you! I was also 12 when I first laid ears on him. I believe his piano concerto no. 2 ranks among the top 10 most beautiful human artistic expressions, musical or otherwise, of all time. This whimsical rhapsody is a top favorite of mine, too. I'm actually researching his life for a screenplay project which I hope will one day give his music the attention it so rightly deserves! He's one of the 10 people I want to meet in the afterlife, if just to say, "THANK YOU!"
@@clairemiddelkoop4290 That is certainly true, but due to the ever evolving Western world where he was residing in in his later years 'required' Rachmaninoff to adapt to the changing musical tastes at the time, especially experimenting with jazz
Wonderful to hear this again. In the early 1960s I got from overseas LPs of Rachmaninoff himself playing his four piano concertos and this Rhapsody. They have since been put onto CD, of course. Rachmaninoff's playing is distinct - very rhythmic and incisive. This Rhapsody is incredibly popular with pianists and audiences alike - more so now than ever !!
By the time he composed this, he surely knew how quickly his health was failing. The significance of that choice, here and in the Dances, his last shot-- is poignant and inspiring. For still he is defiant. Still strong. Still determined. Still the master if his art.
absolutely breathtaking ! * wipes away my tears* I am delighted to have found these recordings! Andre Previn was the only one to carry this sound & talent forward! So glad I have his early recordings!
That is the beauty of arrangement. You can take something established and change it. It allows other composers to take something they already like and expand it and squeeze every little ounce of music out of it. This is a wonderful example of arrangement and variation.
Music transcends the boundaries of human ignorance and limitation. It unifies, cleanses, invokes vision and unwinds beauty from within its spiral in the human heart. It is a universal language. To clutter its elegance by inserting the very boundaries it so seeks to surpass is to do the bidding of fools. If we cannot unify in the sound that transcends the weakness of mind, what hope is there for us?
This is a wonderful piece and to be able to hear the composer play it as he did conceive it is a privilege. Aunt Suzies spaghetti sauce is better than Mamas for some, but Mamas set the bar to surpass. I feel honored to hear him do this as he FELT it. On anothers keyboard it might need more salt or less pepper. Another taste. Criticism is uncalled for. He was GREAT !
It's a little easier mentally to practice it because it's so sectioned, but that goes with any theme and variations. But to play it, there are a lot of things that are just as tricky as anything in the concerti. And the jumps in the LH at the end are nearly impossible (but obviously not actually impossible.) The short answer though is that any of the 4 concerti and this takes a tremendous amount of work.
an animated and complex conversationbetween instruments....how entertaining and engaging! The world is much the richer thanks to Paganini and Rachmaninoff....
who are those ,who can not apreciate this performance??? men....for crying out loud...it s Rachmaninoff who we re talking about,he s master piece! come on people!
@MsAppassionata My mother was a concert pianist during the war with ENSA (every night something awful) the forces entertainment organisation, and was a piano teacher during all my childhood.She always maintained that Tchaikovsky's piano concertos were the most intricate and difficult to play. Others may disagree.
@FetrovskyGoogle What do you mean who?> It was a Gregorian chant about the Day of wrath, he used the main theme from that song and used it in parts of this song
A definitive performance of a seminal work. Rach had it all. I must confess I modeled my own Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor after his works because he is the penultimate pianist-composer who knew how to write for both mediums (piano AND orchestra).
It´s my first time hearing this piece played by him. It´s somewhat rigid in comparison to the version I always heard, with Tamas Vasary, or the version of Rubinstein. Rachmaninoff is a composer I love so much. I like also Rachmaninoff´s version of Chopin Nocturne Op 9.
Any composer would seem to be definitive in playing or conducting his own works..yet we know from statements this is not always so. Rach himself praised other pianists who played some of his works in ways he wished he could... So it is wonderful to have this template to consider...but both in sound quality and performance it still leaves us room to enjoy others efforts, to our pleasure and instruction....
No one can play a piece better than its Composer regardless to virtuosity. The greatest Beethoven players today or Paganini for that fact could never touch the composers insight to the piece. I write pieces myself that I can sometimes barely play, but I still can play it better that anyone else because I wrote and it came from within me
@MsAppassionata What is claimed to be the most difficult piano piece ever was written by the First American Piano Virtuostic composer Lousi Moreau Gottschalk but unfortunately I do not know the name of the peace... I recommend The Union look for it here on youtube
Google Translator says- "I am very awesome to hear the big play Rachmaninoff. Horowitz praised his emotional range and also defended him in pianistic terms often against his critics. Rachmaninoff was a great pianist, as this recording shows, but leaves almost every composer who also plays his works to the public, to supplement the reserves last virtuoso in mind. Richard Strauss was also for some of his works not directing, he had not, he wrote it!"
It's one of those recordings that just gets better and better as it goes along, much like the piece. There are a couple of points early on where Stokowski and Rachmaninoff are not exactly together, but who cares? In general the orchestra playing is pretty great. And one detail: I don't think I've ever heard the opening chord in variation 19 rolled out by the orchestra the way it's done here. I wonder how many takes they did.
@sussexpenguin i agree wholeheartedly with you, we are incredibly lucky to be able to experience the music of Rachmaninov as he himself intended it. It doesn't de-value interpretation, and this is consistent as Ashkenazy's equally expert performances of the 18th variation for example demonstrate. Times change and the style of music with it, but that does not mean we can devalue the contributions of these musicians in performance , as they are the basis by which we surely progress.
I first heard recordings of Rachmaninoff playing his own works in the library at Curtis when I was a student there and was dumbstruck by his own take on his own compositions. Not that I believe his is the only way to interpret them, but at least we know how he wanted them to sound in his own mind. The mark of a masterpiece is, in my opinion, that many people can see other things in them than the creator did when first coming up with them...
Truly inspirational. I tried to capture this spirit of romanticism in my own "Symphonic Variations After a Theme of Cesar Franck" for piano & orchestra (available here on YT for listening) Of course I'm no Rachmaninoff but I wish today's composers would write in this vein instead of the computerized nonsense they spew, most of which is so rhythmically complex that humans cannot even reproduce it. Sad state of affairs. Rach was truly among the last of the composers that touched people's hearts.
@elkresurgence A devastating error. I thought penultimate meant "a higher degree of ultimate". No one except possibly Liszt could approach Rach as a triple threat (composer/conductor/pianist).
Rachmaninoff comes with the technique he learned from a pupil of liszt !!!!!!!!! his sound is smooth not that hard as we hear often today. elegant also and intelligent I would describe his play. A fast tempo was no problem for him. Of course he understood the structure of his work !!!!!!!! So its a good version and interesting for any pianist to study this recording !!!!!!!!!! The discussion about if you like or not is not important here. Its the composers intentions which are important !!!!!!!
I'm just curious. I was wondering, not being a pianist myself, what pieces by which composers are the most difficult to play on the piano? Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.? And please, I only want to hear from pianists who can actually play well. Thank you.
Pese a que Rajmsninov no quería ser grabado por suerte han quedado algunas tocando el piano, e incluso un video. El mejor pianista de la historia, con perdón de F. Liszt, que no hay grabaciones, a parte de los mejores compositores rusos exiliado tras la rev. rusa
Me encanta la musica de este gran ompositor ruso y director de música, se le brinda un gran homenaje al bautizar recientemente a uno de los cráteres más intrigantes del planeta mercurio con su nombre.
I think only Artur Rubenstein's playing might have been better, but then again that may bave been the fault of the microphone's pick-up and not necessarily the composer's! So what it is, more likely, is that Rubenstein's is the next-best interpretation AFTER the composer's and SEEMS better due to the microphoe's capabilities...or in-capabilities as the case may be :)
Ich bin sehr ehrfürchtig, den großen Rachmaninoff spielen zu hören. Horowitz lobte seine emotionale Spannbreite und verteidigte ihn auch in pianistischer Hinsicht oft gegen seine Kritiker. Rachmaninoff war ein großer Pianist, wie diese Aufnahme zeigt, jedoch überlässt fast jeder Komponist, der auch seine Werke spielt, dem Publikum, die letzten virtuosen Reserven zu ergänzen, in Gedanken. Richard Strauss konnte auch für manche seine Werke nicht dirigieren, er musste auch nicht, er schrieb sie ja!
He looks so peaceful and serene, in this beautiful photo of him playing the piano! He is so happy, content and at home there, more than anywhere else on earth I'm sure! A beautiful man playing beautiful music! Thank heaven for Rachmaninoff! What a beautiful gift for our beautiful planet earth!
There's no better performer of Rachmaninoff's music than he himself. He has a style that cannot be replicated.
My husband, Vladimir Bakk also recorded this, live in Buenos Aires in 1974. The recording is also a brilliant piece of work. We love Rachmaninoff!!!
I tried to find it on TH-cam to listen to, but no luck. not much video was made in that time
If we had a time machine we could see Brahms,Liszt and Rachmaninoff play their Paganini variations along with Paganini himself-I'd probably faint at the virtuosity!
sherry deal I will build a time machine just to make that happen and record it
To hear Liszt play like we've never heard would be amazing.
UUU0
How can anyone possibly dislike Rachmaninoff himself playing his own pieces? rofl people are crazy
Antonio Rizzitiello Piano trolls? lol
+Antonio Rizzitiello I don't know. I LOVE his music, but just cannot stand hearing him play it. Perhaps it is a case of the recording tech of the time?
+Frank Clark -- same here. I can appreciate historic recordings, and it is great to be able to hear him perform his own works, but for sheer listening enjoyment I'll select a newer recording, such as Lisitsa's.
I personally dont like that much his interpretation of his own music. I think others play it more to how I like
I was born 2 Years before he died and I don't know why but early on I was listening to all the great composers. By 12 he had become my favorite and every-time I listen to him play, I find myself wishing I had known the person inside the music. I can feel his sadness as though it were my own and I have always been called an optimist. I love having come upon this and not only listen but see pictures of the man who's music I have so long loved. Thank you.
I love Rachmaninov's recordings. He approached music from a very composition orientated view. I find it very interesting and like it a lot. And I love hearing him play his own music.
Terrifying teacher hough!
yes, a classic minimalist (without affectation or histrionics) ...compared to today, like Richter
@@mickhanna5565 He didn't teach
@@SpaghettiToaster, then That must have been a mirage all those years ago! I wonder if that TV clip is available.. On the Internet?
@@SpaghettiToaster He did indeed teach. One of his pupils, Ruth Slenczynska, is still alive and performing.
I also can't believe that reviewers complain about the way he played HIS OWN WORK! Seriously people!!!
Pure genious.
This composer has got something that attracts me irresistibly...I could listen to his music for hours and hours...and I love him as a instrumentalist too.
Rarely complex constructions give instantly a full pleasure like his own creations do. Rach I love you wherever you are. Your music hits the three points...
Thank you so much for uploading this! I used to have the "vinyl" album this had been also recorded on and had given it away MANY years ago to a nursing home before a major move because I'd rather see it enjoyed by others than damaged in a move. This is a real treat! :)
I so identify with you! I was also 12 when I first laid ears on him. I believe his piano concerto no. 2 ranks among the top 10 most beautiful human artistic expressions, musical or otherwise, of all time. This whimsical rhapsody is a top favorite of mine, too. I'm actually researching his life for a screenplay project which I hope will one day give his music the attention it so rightly deserves! He's one of the 10 people I want to meet in the afterlife, if just to say, "THANK YOU!"
One of the greatest contributors to modern classical music
Robert Taylor Rachmaninoff was a 'romantic classical' composer, not a 'modern classical' composer!
@@clairemiddelkoop4290 That is certainly true, but due to the ever evolving Western world where he was residing in in his later years 'required' Rachmaninoff to adapt to the changing musical tastes at the time, especially experimenting with jazz
Wonderful to hear this again. In the early 1960s I got from overseas LPs of Rachmaninoff himself playing his four piano concertos and this Rhapsody. They have since been put onto CD, of course. Rachmaninoff's playing is distinct - very rhythmic and incisive. This Rhapsody is incredibly popular with pianists and audiences alike - more so now than ever !!
The man himself , in aww , his music , him playing , please , I,m in heaven
By the time he composed this, he surely knew how quickly his health was failing. The significance of that choice, here and in the Dances, his last shot-- is poignant and inspiring. For still he is defiant. Still strong. Still determined. Still the master if his art.
Rachmaninoff -- the greatest.
Rachmaninoff, Tatarstan blood runs in his veins, what a sensitive great unforgettable icon of music
burhan hadi
Mesmerizing. Thank you Tom for posting.
absolutely breathtaking !
* wipes away my tears*
I am delighted to have found these recordings!
Andre Previn was the only one to carry this sound & talent forward!
So glad I have his early recordings!
That is the beauty of arrangement. You can take something established and change it. It allows other composers to take something they already like and expand it and squeeze every little ounce of music out of it. This is a wonderful example of arrangement and variation.
Howonderful!
I would have been afraid to conducthis with Sergei playing.
So glad thathis was recorded.
Thank you, theoshow, for posting this.
Wonderful to hear THE COMPOSER playing.
Music transcends the boundaries of human ignorance and limitation. It unifies, cleanses, invokes vision and unwinds beauty from within its spiral in the human heart. It is a universal language. To clutter its elegance by inserting the very boundaries it so seeks to surpass is to do the bidding of fools. If we cannot unify in the sound that transcends the weakness of mind, what hope is there for us?
Amazingly powerful... Absolutely exquisite!
Delightful! Seeing Rachmaninov himself interpreting his beautiful music is like a dream come true. Thanks to technology, we are able to do so
This is amazing the people who got to see him play live don't know how lucky they are!!! ^_^
8:00-8:50 50 seconds of pure bliss then BOOM Variation 13 comes in. Gets me every time.
This is a wonderful piece and to be able to hear the composer play it as he did conceive it is a privilege. Aunt Suzies spaghetti sauce is better than Mamas for some, but Mamas set the bar to surpass. I feel honored to hear him do this as he FELT it. On anothers keyboard it might
need more salt or less pepper. Another taste. Criticism is uncalled for. He was GREAT !
Horowitz stated on a TV special 30 years ago that Rachmaninoff told him music is enough for a lifetime...but a lifetime is not enough for music...
This performance is the encarnation of beauty:acoustic emotion,dancing emotions...a blessing.
thanks!
ankhsnammon
It's a little easier mentally to practice it because it's so sectioned, but that goes with any theme and variations. But to play it, there are a lot of things that are just as tricky as anything in the concerti. And the jumps in the LH at the end are nearly impossible (but obviously not actually impossible.) The short answer though is that any of the 4 concerti and this takes a tremendous amount of work.
Great! It is the great Russian music. He loved his Motherland. It is heard in music.
He Did, But then he did NOT! He was born of Aristocracy and was thrown out! He was bitter towards his homeland in the end.
comunists
And now pious, bible-thumping, holier-than-thou Republicans
an animated and complex conversationbetween instruments....how entertaining and engaging! The world is much the richer thanks to Paganini and Rachmaninoff....
one word: "Genius".
who are those ,who can not apreciate this performance???
men....for crying out loud...it s Rachmaninoff who we re talking about,he s master piece!
come on people!
Love, Love, Love...
By the 18th variation I got the tears going full blast
You're not the only one.
@MsAppassionata My mother was a concert pianist during the war with ENSA (every night something awful) the forces entertainment organisation, and was a piano teacher during all my childhood.She always maintained that Tchaikovsky's piano concertos were the most intricate and difficult to play. Others may disagree.
He really was obsessed with Dies Irae, wasn't he? I love his music.
yes, he used the Dies Irae theme in his etude tableau op 39 no 2. I believe he must have used the theme in other pieces too
@FetrovskyGoogle What do you mean who?> It was a Gregorian chant about the Day of wrath, he used the main theme from that song and used it in parts of this song
A definitive performance of a seminal work. Rach had it all. I must confess I modeled my own Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor after his works because he is the penultimate pianist-composer who knew how to write for both mediums (piano AND orchestra).
Who's the last one then?
If he's the penultimate who is the ultimate?
@@user-sg5dv6nu2n Misused the term. Rachmaninoff is the ultimate.
R plays beautifully and writes exquisitely
Brilliante
This is my favorite of all the Rachmaninoff Pieces. My 2nd favorite is the 3rd concerto, 1st movement!
Is there anywhere that has film of him playing? I would love to watch him in action. Be still my beating heart...
It´s my first time hearing this piece played by him. It´s somewhat rigid in comparison to the version I always heard, with Tamas Vasary, or the version of Rubinstein. Rachmaninoff is a composer I love so much. I like also Rachmaninoff´s version of Chopin Nocturne Op 9.
Any composer would seem to be definitive in playing or conducting his own works..yet we know from statements this is not always so. Rach himself praised other pianists who played some of his works in ways he wished he could...
So it is wonderful to have this template to consider...but both in sound quality and performance it still leaves us room to enjoy others efforts, to our pleasure and instruction....
Me too. Most beautiful music ever composed.
No one can play a piece better than its Composer regardless to virtuosity. The greatest Beethoven players today or Paganini for that fact could never touch the composers insight to the piece. I write pieces myself that I can sometimes barely play, but I still can play it better that anyone else because I wrote and it came from within me
@JoeTownley totally agree, what happened to the likes of him, or Joaquín Rodrigo? Instead we get Stockhausen?
@MsAppassionata What is claimed to be the most difficult piano piece ever was written by the First American Piano Virtuostic composer Lousi Moreau Gottschalk but unfortunately I do not know the name of the peace... I recommend The Union look for it here on youtube
I have my doubts,sounds to perfect,brilliant and great
,
Google Translator says- "I am very awesome to hear the big play Rachmaninoff. Horowitz praised his emotional range and also defended him in pianistic terms often against his critics. Rachmaninoff was a great pianist, as this recording shows, but leaves almost every composer who also plays his works to the public, to supplement the reserves last virtuoso in mind. Richard Strauss was also for some of his works not directing, he had not, he wrote it!"
It's one of those recordings that just gets better and better as it goes along, much like the piece. There are a couple of points early on where Stokowski and Rachmaninoff are not exactly together, but who cares? In general the orchestra playing is pretty great. And one detail: I don't think I've ever heard the opening chord in variation 19 rolled out by the orchestra the way it's done here.
I wonder how many takes they did.
Love this piece! Had to hear it played by Rachmaninoff!
I love this edition~~ very musical~
Rachmaninoff! One of the greatest composers in history!!!
@cander49 State-of-the-art recording equipment DID exist, but it was the state of the art at that time, not of our time.
Maestro
@sussexpenguin i agree wholeheartedly with you, we are incredibly lucky to be able to experience the music of Rachmaninov as he himself intended it. It doesn't de-value interpretation, and this is consistent as Ashkenazy's equally expert performances of the 18th variation for example demonstrate. Times change and the style of music with it, but that does not mean we can devalue the contributions of these musicians in performance , as they are the basis by which we surely progress.
I first heard recordings of Rachmaninoff playing his own works in the library at Curtis when I was a student there and was dumbstruck by his own take on his own compositions. Not that I believe his is the only way to interpret them, but at least we know how he wanted them to sound in his own mind. The mark of a masterpiece is, in my opinion, that many people can see other things in them than the creator did when first coming up with them...
Truly inspirational. I tried to capture this spirit of romanticism in my own "Symphonic Variations After a Theme of Cesar Franck" for piano & orchestra (available here on YT for listening) Of course I'm no Rachmaninoff but I wish today's composers would write in this vein instead of the computerized nonsense they spew, most of which is so rhythmically complex that humans cannot even reproduce it. Sad state of affairs. Rach was truly among the last of the composers that touched people's hearts.
is it my imagination or is there a slight jazz undertone during some parts of the rhapsody? for example 5:45-5:54?
Marina Hov I don't think it's your imagination....Rachmaninoff only passed away in 1939. He knew Jazz very well. :)
+Jeanne Haessler -- 1873 - 1943, with a couple of days of exactly 70 years
u trippin
@elkresurgence A devastating error. I thought penultimate meant "a higher degree of ultimate". No one except possibly Liszt could approach Rach as a triple threat (composer/conductor/pianist).
Sussexpenguin - AMEN! I have a set of 78's of Rachmaninoff playing his stuff and it's wonderful!
@TwiztedFortune what are you talking about exactly? Did I miss something? lol
what a god,Rachmaninoff play this super hard song without moving his hands
Thank you! This is WONDERFUL!!!
Creo que debia haber averiguado de donde eres, y hubiera escrito en espan~ol, evitando toda esta confusion :-P
you do have a very valid point.
在我非常年輕的時候就買了這張專輯。拉赫曼尼諾夫的音樂實在很神奇，浪漫中有剛強，硬要說的話，也許可以說是鐵漢柔情吧
wo ist der Rest???
Rachmaninoff comes with the technique he learned from a pupil of liszt !!!!!!!!! his sound is smooth not that hard as we hear often today. elegant also and intelligent I would describe his play. A fast tempo was no problem for him. Of course he understood the structure of his work !!!!!!!! So its a good version and interesting for any pianist to study this recording !!!!!!!!!! The discussion about if you like or not is not important here. Its the composers intentions which are important !!!!!!!
I'm just curious. I was wondering, not being a pianist myself, what pieces by which composers are the most difficult to play on the piano? Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.? And please, I only want to hear from pianists who can actually play well. Thank you.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!
@JoeTownley if rach's penultimate, then who's the ultimate pianist-composer?
Pese a que Rajmsninov no quería ser grabado por suerte han quedado algunas tocando el piano, e incluso un video. El mejor pianista de la historia, con perdón de F. Liszt, que no hay grabaciones, a parte de los mejores compositores rusos exiliado tras la rev. rusa
The master at work......
Brilliant.
Thank you theo
a piece of heaven
Me encanta la musica de este gran ompositor ruso y director de música, se le brinda un gran homenaje al bautizar recientemente a uno de los cráteres más intrigantes del planeta mercurio con su nombre.
one word only.... SPLENDID!
We have to study this piece in music class in a Compare and Contrast thing. Were studying this and Beethovens Piano Concerto No.3
super utwór, jest co grać !
I think only Artur Rubenstein's playing might have been better, but then again that may bave been the fault of the microphone's pick-up and not necessarily the composer's! So what it is, more likely, is that Rubenstein's is the next-best interpretation AFTER the composer's and SEEMS better due to the microphoe's capabilities...or in-capabilities as the case may be :)
Gorgeous! I love Rachmaninoff :)
awesome!
always the best
@rei161 If Chopin is the penultimate pianist, then who's the ultimate?
I could not agree more.
@TwiztedFortune What what? What's wrong with 0:44-0:49?
Source music for our high schools winter percussion show
INOLVIDABLE
@cander49 I agree with you.
@joshbob32 I respectfully disagree with you - I do believe it's pronounced "Paganini". I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
where can one get the originaL
素晴らしい
No, he just wanted to compose this...
But you have fantasy.. you can correlate everything
I like this so much!
Ich bin sehr ehrfürchtig, den großen Rachmaninoff spielen zu hören. Horowitz lobte seine emotionale Spannbreite und verteidigte ihn auch in pianistischer Hinsicht oft gegen seine Kritiker. Rachmaninoff war ein großer Pianist, wie diese Aufnahme zeigt, jedoch überlässt fast jeder Komponist, der auch seine Werke spielt, dem Publikum, die letzten virtuosen Reserven zu ergänzen, in Gedanken. Richard Strauss konnte auch für manche seine Werke nicht dirigieren, er musste auch nicht, er schrieb sie ja!