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getClassical (Ilona Oltuski)
2014-04-29 00:02:03
Lavrova-Primakov Duo – Rachmaninoff- Duo Repertoire Concert And CD Release
[…] Fantaisie-Tableaux for two pianos, was written in the summer of 1893, when the composer was just twenty years old. He spent the summer with friends on a country estate near Kharkov. After he returned to Moscow, he paid a visit to his former teacher, the great composer Sergey Taneyev, where he encountered another friend, adviser and ardent supporter – P.I. Tchaikovsky. What transpired at that meeting is in Rachmaninoff’s Recollections, as told to Oskar von Riesemann. Tchaikovsky was much impressed with the success of the Prelude (the famous C # Minor Prelude Op.3, that was written two years prior), as well as with the considerable amount of music his young colleague had managed to compose up to that point. “And I, miserable wretch,” he remarked, “have only written one Symphony!” That symphony, the last work to come from his pen, was the Pathétique. At that meeting, Rachmaninoff told Tchaikovsky that […]
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