This was André Previns finest hour! The gold standard of the Rach 2 Adagio movement is in this performance. The notes just melt so tenderly and the clarinetist played perfectly. Salute to Andre Previn. You, sir lived the life you were born to live!
I heard Andre Previn conduct the Rachmaninoff Second Symphony with his Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. I was with my brother. May Andre Previn rest in peace.
André Previn first recorded this beautiful symphony with the LSO back in 1967 or 1968 and I had the privilege of hearing them playing it live in Brighton - one of the first classical concerts I went to as a teenager. It was a glorious and unforgettable performance.
A romantic masterpiece from the great master of inspirationaly powerful and simply beautiful music. His music is brilliance personified and I feel that he was the genius of his era with no equal. His piano concertos are absolute masterpieces in their composition, beauty and complexity and his use of minor chords, diminished chords, perfect fourths, perfect fiths and dischords are enough to stir the soul beyond comprehension . Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart sergei rachmaninov for giving me such unbelievable pleasure with your heavenly music.
Let us not forget his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (sheer, brilliant romanticism) and his 2nd Piano Concerto. But like others here, this symphony, his second is one of those that every lover of classicism must have in their collection. Personally, I am and will always be a fan and grateful that he escaped the Bolsheviks.
I loved how you articulated your love for Rachmaninoff's music, but all the credit should go to the most incredible genius ever and that is God almighty.
Это тот самый случаев, когда передаривать подарок --- хорошо. Бог подарил Рахманинову свой Божий Дар, а Рахманинов одарил всех нас этой великой, небесной, бесконечно прекрасной Музыкой, этим гимном Любви и счастья!
My favourite composer. He must have been a very romantic soul. Never fails to make me cry and reflect on life, the good and the bad times. Just beautiful.
Rachmaninoff was a genius and this movement has love dripping all over it, just devine, it touches your soul, brava Mr Rachmaninoff and thank you. I must say the clarinet is perfect, just crystal clear, the strings are lush and the oboe partners just right with the clarinet. This is one of Andre Previns best recordings. I could listen to this once a day for rejuvenation.
Rachmaninoff is an absolute genius as a musician; he knows perfectly how to create a spiritual as well as emotional mood with his unparalleled talent for orchestration. What a super artist...God bless him. Thanks for posting!
I bought this version when it first came out. To me Andre Previn and the LSO are simply the best in this wonderful symphony full of longing and nostalgia. Rachmaninoff’s music resonates with this and is simply beautiful. Andre Previn is still very much missed.❤️
In this recording from the 70's I think Previn got everything right, tempo etc throughout the four movemnts. Here in the 3rd movement the wonderful clarinet solo by Jack Brymer is just perfect. This music will touch your heart if you let it. I know and have known many people in my 73 years and no more than 5 or 10 of those individuals would know of this music or that of Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Elgar etc. The trouble these days that here in the UK there are no radio programmes that really cross boundaries so those that only listen to pop or light music are never exposed to anything that requires quiet listening. Andre Previn and the LSO did address that in the 1970's with a weekly television programme. Because of his charm and trendy appearance his name was well known by people who would exit a room at the thought of listening to "Classical music" so called. I gave a copy of this 3rd movement to a female friend who I know is quite fond of music. Her response was "it is a dirge".
I agree with this. The music is supremely beautiful and Jack Brymer's playing is as you say, 'just perfect'. My Dad came from South Shields and knew him at their secondary school and always said he played beatifully when he was young. I feel privileged to even have this small 'connection' with such a wonderful player!
"Sounds like a dirge". There is no hope. My beautiful wife whom I love dearly is, self-admittedly, tone-deaf. We were talking last week about the quality of sound that comes out of a small speaker, like on a phone, vs. the sound quality that comes out of a full stereo rig, and she, without irony, said she could not tell the difference.
Jan Skácelík Yes this time the gramophone is right. Normally they favour any british performance good or bad. Previns account is stunning! The Pletnev recording I dont like at all. Very much underplayed and very cold interpretation imho,he isn't a conductor at all. Even the orchestra isn't up to western standards. Unbelievable they got a contract on Deutsche Grammophon....
creo que esta musica necesita pocos comentarios habla por si sola estoy escuchando el adagio y me pone los pelos de punta magistral pero solo la pueden entender las personas verdaderamente romanticas
I know that Rachmaninoff sanctioned the cuts in the edited version but after hearing the unedited version, who in their right minds would want to hear the cut version??
I play with the start of this in my head ..slowing down that opening motive...but I love this version. Note that in 2017 such CD re issues cost a lot. Me? I think of my late Wife and my love for her as I hear this.
I discovered Rachmaninov when seeing the film the 7 year itch as a child. I've been in love with his music which, for me is unsurpassable, ever since. Brings me to tears in an instant with those darn minor key movements!
And the beautiful clarinet solo is by my favourite English clarinettist: Jack Brymer. Listen to his version of the Adagio from the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. It is as if you are hearing it for the first time.
Andre Previn is under-rated because he does so many things very well -- piano (jazz and classical), composing, including film scores. Crossing the popular/classical as he and Bernstein did was shocking at the time and cost him credibility in some circles, though we admire it now. But I think this Rachmaninoff E minor Symphony is a revelation of just how great a conductor he is; the pacing is just superb. His legacy of recordings will be a treasure for a very long time to come.
To think that Rachmaninov had been lacking motivation because he thought no one would care to listen to his music breaks my heart. With all the atonality, serialism, etc in his time, it must have been really hard for him to find motivation to continue on his own style of romanticism. But the few pieces he managed to make certainly had become some of the most loved pieces now.
+Benedic Justine Velasco Truly? That is devastating. If he'd only known how many times my heart has broken over his music... The best of late Romantic, love depicted in all its colors and complexities.
Very poor comment! Atonality and serialism did not even exist when he wrote this amazing piece, and he is unlikely to have had contact with obscure Viennese expressionism, tucked away on his estates (this was written in Dresden). The revolution did for him, and going into exile really saddened him, had to spend many years in the 20s being a concert pianist just to survive. IMO the 1st Symphony showed a completely different path, could have been a great tragic composer, rather than a sentimental one. Enjoy!
Andre Previn with Jack Brymer on clarinet - this was bound to be brilliant! Jack made 3 of the 4 best recordings of the Mozart concerto, and you hear his clarinet on the soundtrack of Out Of Africa.
I think this music piece is the most beautiful and extraordinary ever written, Sincerily the variation sounds and musical notes are wonderful. Rachmaninoff was a man of the great sensibility. A Genius. When I listen this piece my H eart breaks and my Soul going up to give thanks to God, Glory and Honour because this music piece is Splendour. in consecuence is the Language of God.
Great playing Jack Brymer the definitive English clarinettist the solo on Andre’s first recording was I think played by the great Roy Jowett? What an orchestra ! - Bill - UK
Well, OK, it's technically an Adagio. But not really. It's a love letter. It's what you want to wrap up and send straight into her ear, along with the fact that it's come directly from You & you alone ... and if she'll just Listen to it, she'll know ... and once she gets it through her thick head that This is how you feel ...
'Rachmaninoff' my favourite, *(I've always spelled it with a 'v' but on his headstone and several monuments it has double 'ff') beautiful DVD, loved all the photography, although it would have been nice to have names on the photos, I did recognise a very young "Horowitz" who said "He was my best friend - I was like a son to him". What a priviledge to have had that close of a relationship with the Great Maestro!
UNA DELLE DIREZIONI CHE RIMANGONO NELLA STORIA, CIRCA QUESTO ADAGIO DI SINGOLARE BELLEZZA, COMPRENDENTE L' INSIEME DI SENTIMENTI DI DUE CONTINENTI... DELICATISSIMO PEZZO CHA SUSCITA GRANDE SPONTANEITà COME SORGENTE SERENA DI VITA ed armoniosa versione di un affresco meraviglioso ...... carlo lamberti (carliszt39@gmail.com)
BTW, did everyone notice the day of birth on Rachmaninoff's headstone, and the cross? Well, was it the 2nd,as on the headstone, or the 1st as on Wikipedia?
And then Eric Carmen composes the song " Never Going to Fall in Love Again " utilizing the third movement of the symphony no. 2 and did it beautifully.
It's obvious that there's a certain amount of romance in it. But I think there's much more to it. Happy people don't produce great works, and Rachmaninoff was no exception.
I love the way the tuba is given prominence for its important role. It so often hidden in most performances. Why? Rwally exceptional performances. This piece can be quite tiresome in the hands of someone who doesn't understand Rach. All the neccessary nuances are there.
I agree that Andre Previn performs a very good version of this awesome symphony-but I prefer the older Ormandy recording ( because of the warm and spectacular orchestra sound) or the Rozhdestvensky/LSO rendition-never listened to Rachmaninovs 2nd more profound and powerful!!
André Previn (1929-2019) In memorian. RIP great maestro
Beautifully flowing performance
I think André Previn is the one who has best interpreted this symphony. His version with the London Symphony Orchestra is the best.
I agree completely.
I agree completely.
@@susanllequis3832 me too
@@susanllequis3832 Equally great Kurt Sanderling with Leningrad Sym Orch
So beautiful it makes me cry.
No one did Rachmaninoff like Previn and the LSO. No one. Ever.
Nostalgia y romanticismo no pueden presindir el uno del otro
Solo el Amor nos aproxima al Infinito
BlueBuffelow Agreed!
This was André Previns finest hour! The gold standard of the Rach 2 Adagio movement is in this performance. The notes just melt so tenderly and the clarinetist played perfectly. Salute to Andre Previn. You, sir lived the life you were born to live!
Und wieder ist ein Großer von uns gegangen. Diese Welt wird immer ärmer; denn das waren noch echte große Meister!
This is perhaps the most beautiful piece of orchestral music ever written. It makes me cry when I hear it.
Yes I think So! Beautiful piece !
The entire symphony is beautiful. But classical music is full of beautiful, majestic, thrilling, and inspiring works.
yes
This is great compositeur russe Sergei Rachmaninov ❤❤❤❤❤👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Only music has this ability to convey & transmit emotion
Farewell Andre Previn. Your star shone bright and this was beautiful recording was one of your finest hours.
:*-(
Maestro Andre Previn is gone upstairs to heaven, reunited with Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
I heard Andre Previn conduct the Rachmaninoff Second Symphony with his Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. I was with my brother. May Andre Previn rest in peace.
Lucky murray
André Previn first recorded this beautiful symphony with the LSO back in 1967 or 1968 and I had the privilege of hearing them playing it live in Brighton - one of the first classical concerts I went to as a teenager. It was a glorious and unforgettable performance.
A romantic masterpiece from the great master of inspirationaly powerful and simply beautiful music. His music is brilliance personified and I feel that he was the genius of his era with no equal. His piano concertos are absolute masterpieces in their composition, beauty and complexity and his use of minor chords, diminished chords, perfect fourths, perfect fiths and dischords are enough to stir the soul beyond comprehension . Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart sergei rachmaninov for giving me such unbelievable pleasure with your heavenly music.
well said
Add me to the list - such great music for the human soul - Rach was absolutely one of the best in history.
Let us not forget his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (sheer, brilliant romanticism) and his 2nd Piano Concerto. But like others here, this symphony, his second is one of those that every lover of classicism must have in their collection. Personally, I am and will always be a fan and grateful that he escaped the Bolsheviks.
I loved how you articulated your love for Rachmaninoff's music, but all the credit should go to the most incredible genius ever and that is God almighty.
Это тот самый случаев, когда передаривать подарок --- хорошо. Бог подарил Рахманинову свой Божий Дар, а Рахманинов одарил всех нас этой великой, небесной, бесконечно прекрасной Музыкой, этим гимном Любви и счастья!
My favourite composer. He must have been a very romantic soul. Never fails to make me cry and reflect on life, the good and the bad times. Just beautiful.
Rachmaninoff was a genius and this movement has love dripping all over it, just devine, it touches your soul, brava Mr Rachmaninoff and thank you. I must say the clarinet is perfect, just crystal clear, the strings are lush and the oboe partners just right with the clarinet. This is one of Andre Previns best recordings. I could listen to this once a day for rejuvenation.
martha jane oops, meant Bravo Maestro Rachmaninoff, so caught up in the beauty.
+martha jane Once an hour!
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Nice comment
ABSOLUMENT MERVEILLEUX ! Ma pièce de musique préférée elle a qq chose de SUBLIME !
I have listened to many versions of this and find this one the best.
How much more wonderful can music be than this ?
Robert Newman it simply does not get any better than this, simply beautiful music.
Music out of this world yet the composer very much part of us what great mystery! Thank you you tube for bringing him to us .
clarinet solo ROY JOWITT my teacher for more than 18 years.
thank you very much Roy for all your advices and friendship.
Rachmaninoff is an absolute genius as a musician; he knows perfectly how to create a spiritual as well as emotional mood with his unparalleled talent for orchestration. What a super artist...God bless him. Thanks for posting!
just heaven
This version has no equal.
I bought this version when it first came out. To me Andre Previn and the LSO
are simply the best in this wonderful symphony full of longing and nostalgia.
Rachmaninoff’s music resonates with this and is simply beautiful. Andre
Previn is still very much missed.❤️
In this recording from the 70's I think Previn got everything right, tempo etc throughout the four movemnts. Here in the 3rd movement the wonderful clarinet solo by Jack Brymer is just perfect. This music will touch your heart if you let it. I know and have known many people in my 73 years and no more than 5 or 10 of those individuals would know of this music or that of Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Elgar etc. The trouble these days that here in the UK there are no radio programmes that really cross boundaries so those that only listen to pop or light music are never exposed to anything that requires quiet listening.
Andre Previn and the LSO did address that in the 1970's with a weekly television programme. Because of his charm and trendy appearance his name was well known by people who would exit a room at the thought of listening to "Classical music" so called. I gave a copy of this 3rd movement to a female friend who I know is quite fond of music. Her response was "it is a dirge".
I agree with this. The music is supremely beautiful and Jack Brymer's playing is as you say, 'just perfect'. My Dad came from South Shields and knew him at their secondary school and always said he played beatifully when he was young. I feel privileged to even have this small 'connection' with such a wonderful player!
"Sounds like a dirge". There is no hope. My beautiful wife whom I love dearly is, self-admittedly, tone-deaf. We were talking last week about the quality of sound that comes out of a small speaker, like on a phone, vs. the sound quality that comes out of a full stereo rig, and she, without irony, said she could not tell the difference.
La triste risposta della sua amica fa comprendere che certi doni non sono per tutti ma per gli eletti.
in my opinion one of the best recordings of this symphony. Together with Ormandy(philly) and Svetlanov.
I totally agree with you
Ben Legebeke gramophone thinks this too. I am also loving Pletnevs recroding for DG
Jan Skácelík Yes this time the gramophone is right. Normally they favour any british performance good or bad. Previns account is stunning! The Pletnev recording I dont like at all. Very much underplayed and very cold interpretation imho,he isn't a conductor at all. Even the orchestra isn't up to western standards. Unbelievable they got a contract on Deutsche Grammophon....
So much so that Previn wasn't able to match himself when he re-recorded it some years later with the Royal Philharmonic.
This is arguably the greatest recording of Rachmaninov's symphony no.2, and the first uncut version of this masterpiece.
Equally great or perhaps better recording by Kurt Sanderling>Leningrad
creo que esta musica necesita pocos comentarios habla por si sola estoy escuchando el adagio y me pone los pelos de punta magistral pero solo la pueden entender las personas verdaderamente romanticas
Beautiful, captivating and oh so melancholy.
The picture at 2:19 is so, so beautiful with Chaikovsky picture, his most admired composer, behind him.
BRAVO!!! SIMPY BEAUTIFUL!!! WILL ALWAYS BE MY VERY FAVORITE!!! SIGNED: A ROMANTIC...
I know that Rachmaninoff sanctioned the cuts in the edited version but after hearing the unedited version, who in their right minds would want to hear the cut version??
When I listen to this magical piece of music, I am at peace and in a better place. Thank you Mr Rachmaninov.
My single favorite piece of music, just wish I didn’t always cry through it, but tears of hearing perfection.
I play with the start of this in my head ..slowing down that opening motive...but I love this version. Note that in 2017 such CD re issues cost a lot. Me? I think of my late Wife and my love for her as I hear this.
Very thought provoking, beautiful piece of work and feeling struck by divine grace.
One of the greatest moments in all music in all the world I'v listened to it over and over.😭
The best part of the symphony. Most romantic
Гениальное исполнение ,абсолютно невероятный кларнетист, как и весь оркестр!!! Браво маэстро Превин! 👍👍👍🎼
The clarinet I am sure was played by the late Jack Brymer.
I want to name this symphony "happiness" ...I feel Rachmaninv's many delightful memories are packed in these delicate melodies.
I discovered Rachmaninov when seeing the film the 7 year itch as a child. I've been in love with his music which, for me is unsurpassable, ever since. Brings me to tears in an instant with those darn minor key movements!
This is a beautiful arrangement that brings such emotion and tears too. It is such a pleasure to come this close to heaven.
Потрясающая музыка! Просто фейерверк, фонтан эмоций! Браво!!!
And the beautiful clarinet solo is by my favourite English clarinettist: Jack Brymer. Listen to his version of the Adagio from the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. It is as if you are hearing it for the first time.
Andre Previn is under-rated because he does so many things very well -- piano (jazz and classical), composing, including film scores. Crossing the popular/classical as he and Bernstein did was shocking at the time and cost him credibility in some circles, though we admire it now. But I think this Rachmaninoff E minor Symphony is a revelation of just how great a conductor he is; the pacing is just superb. His legacy of recordings will be a treasure for a very long time to come.
Quite agree. Andre Previn has given us a fortune of memorable recordings, especially from his years with the LSO.
I so love this music.
To think that Rachmaninov had been lacking motivation because he thought no one would care to listen to his music breaks my heart. With all the atonality, serialism, etc in his time, it must have been really hard for him to find motivation to continue on his own style of romanticism. But the few pieces he managed to make certainly had become some of the most loved pieces now.
+Benedic Justine Velasco Truly? That is devastating. If he'd only known how many times my heart has broken over his music... The best of late Romantic, love depicted in all its colors and complexities.
Yes. Now his Second Piano Concerto is the most played concerto. I think.
True genius
Very poor comment! Atonality and serialism did not even exist when he wrote this amazing piece, and he is unlikely to have had contact with obscure Viennese expressionism, tucked away on his estates (this was written in Dresden). The revolution did for him, and going into exile really saddened him, had to spend many years in the 20s being a concert pianist just to survive.
IMO the 1st Symphony showed a completely different path, could have been a great tragic composer, rather than a sentimental one. Enjoy!
Sandor Szarvas Thank you for correcting me.
Mí preferida 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵💋🇪🇸💋
An amazing performance
Greatest recording of Rachmaninoff's 2nd of all time.
The best interpretation of the best symphony from the best conductor !!!... Thank you.... =)
Oh yes...this is the definitive upload of this movement...Thank You!....
Bonita musica para soñar
Andre Previn with Jack Brymer on clarinet - this was bound to be brilliant! Jack made 3 of the 4 best recordings of the Mozart concerto, and you hear his clarinet on the soundtrack of Out Of Africa.
I think this music piece is the most beautiful and extraordinary ever written, Sincerily the variation sounds and musical notes are wonderful. Rachmaninoff was a man of the great sensibility. A Genius. When I listen this piece my H eart breaks and my Soul going up to give thanks to God, Glory and Honour because this music piece is Splendour. in consecuence is the Language of God.
How much more wonderful can music be than this!!
This piece tells such a story. deeply engraved with emotion
I love this. So romantic.
Yes..., so romantic...
Superb.
So Beautiful
"My Dear Hands. Farewell, My Poor Hands!"
Adorei as fotos,
Gostaria de ser irmão, amigo ou primo dele,
Great playing Jack Brymer the definitive English clarinettist the solo on Andre’s first recording was I think played by the great Roy Jowett? What an orchestra ! - Bill - UK
A beautiful version of the great Rachmaninov
Sublimely magnificent.
Dolorosa Belleza....!!!!!
Absolutely the tops!
such a wonderful piece..rip Previn!
quiaiera escuchar la obra completa eladagio es muy bien tocago con una gran vena romantica
Thank you, Roger, for the wonderful photo montage!!
Encantador
This is grand!
Well, OK, it's technically an Adagio. But not really. It's a love letter. It's what you want to wrap up and send straight into her ear, along with the fact that it's come directly from You & you alone ... and if she'll just Listen to it, she'll know ... and once she gets it through her thick head that This is how you feel ...
Amen.
Art........THIS is one of the BEST comments I have ever read about the adagio!!!! The VERY BEST!!!!! It is the greatest love letter in the world!!!!
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Rachmaninoff wrote us a love 💕 letter.
'Rachmaninoff' my favourite, *(I've always spelled it with a 'v' but on his headstone and several monuments it has double 'ff') beautiful DVD, loved all the photography, although it would have been nice to have names on the photos, I did recognise a very young "Horowitz" who said "He was my best friend - I was like a son to him". What a priviledge to have had that close of a relationship with the Great Maestro!
Nos transporta, bellisimaaa
UNA DELLE DIREZIONI CHE RIMANGONO NELLA STORIA, CIRCA QUESTO ADAGIO DI SINGOLARE BELLEZZA, COMPRENDENTE L' INSIEME DI SENTIMENTI DI DUE CONTINENTI...
DELICATISSIMO PEZZO CHA SUSCITA GRANDE SPONTANEITà COME SORGENTE SERENA DI VITA ed armoniosa versione di un affresco meraviglioso ......
carlo lamberti (carliszt39@gmail.com)
grazie, è un bellissimo adagio ed un valente direttore
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Now he is Rachmaninov’s equal.
The first clarinet solo played by Jack Brymer in this movement was a really fatastic.
is it
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, London Symphony Orchestra or Previn? both are mentioned.
Bellisima
Hermoso amigo
Great pics. Looks like Walt Disney and Vladimir Horowitz at 11:00. Who is the conductor at 11:34?
Mengelberg
PS: Let's call this 3rd movement Rachmaninoff's "love letter".....
Let's not and say we did.
A love letter? Yes. That’s exactly what the Adagio is. A love letter 💌.
BTW, did everyone notice the day of birth on Rachmaninoff's headstone, and the cross? Well, was it the 2nd,as on the headstone, or the 1st as on Wikipedia?
الله يرحمك راشماننوف
And then Eric Carmen composes the song " Never Going to Fall in Love Again " utilizing the third movement of the symphony no. 2 and did it beautifully.
Jack Brymer great solo clarinet
Andre was so versatile...Have you heard LIke Young....pop tune
It's obvious that there's a certain amount of romance in it. But I think there's much more to it. Happy people don't produce great works, and Rachmaninoff was no exception.
Jack Brymer grande clarinetto
Does anyone know from which year is it ? 1973?
Eric Carmen borrowed from this great Symphony with his hit. "Never gonna fall in love again"..it's awesome
Unsurpassed
I love the way the tuba is given prominence for its important role. It so often hidden in most performances. Why? Rwally exceptional performances. This piece can be quite tiresome in the hands of someone who doesn't understand Rach. All the neccessary nuances are there.
I agree that Andre Previn performs a very good version of this awesome symphony-but I prefer the older Ormandy recording ( because of the warm and spectacular orchestra sound) or the Rozhdestvensky/LSO rendition-never listened to Rachmaninovs 2nd more profound and powerful!!
ああラフマニノフ ラフマニノフ