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Rachmaninov - "Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini", Op. 43

submitted by kronosposeidon

1 decade 6 years 1 week ago

The first three minutes of this masterpiece are possibly the most beautiful three minutes of music ever created, IMHO.

9 Comments

dystopianfuturetoday

I love this piece. The amazing thing about this section is that it is an intervalic inversion (flipped upside down in other words) of the Paganini theme. The original theme is A - C - B - A - E etc. and the inversion is A - F# - G - A - D etc. What is amazing is that it doesn't sound like the result of a contrapuntal trick. It sounds like a glorious, inspired melody.

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It's good, no doubt. But Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music" is the one that always does me in. In fact, Rachmaninoff was at the premiere of that piece in 1938 and supposedly openly wept, he found it so beautiful.

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