T introduced to me Rachmaninoff's Symphony No.2, conducted by Andre Revin, which is one of his all-time favourite classic recordings.
Amazing awesomeness. The music somehow is the best company while I go pensive upon concepts like balance and continuity... big thoughts on life.
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How nice to read that! I feel the same...and although it probably is very boring to do that, I cannot help listening over and over to the this and the third, too. Stravinsky dismissed it as 'pretty film music'! (Made me feel very stupid when I read that.) Have you ever listened to the first one? I have never, but I would love to. I once read that it was a total flop and that suffering from depressions it took Rachmaninoff a decade to write the second, which instantly became very famous. Ha, so it is out of support we are listening to his music! Do you know more about that?
I don't really know any more about Rachmaninoff (although I heard this name all the time), and only until recently have I started listening to his symphony no. 2. Took a decade to compose it--wow!
Listening now to Brahms's violin sonata...
by the way it pleased me loads the other day you played Yann Tiersen. I loved that!!!
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