Rach-ing that guitar
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For the first video, my first thought was... beautiful, always love classic guitar covers of piano pieces. Second thought was how unsatisfying that low E string is on the guitar... yeah it sounds nice but it's really hard to "strike" that note so strongly like you physically can smash it on the piano. Speaking of smashing it... ok I'll withhold my 3rd thought.
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Great guitar work on both. The G minor prelude has always been one of my favourites. I recall the first time I heard it - a vinyl, probably mono, Vladimir Horowitz on piano. Totally blew me away.
@Renauda said in Rach-ing that guitar:
Great guitar work on both. The G minor prelude has always been one of my favourites. I recall the first time I heard it - a vinyl, probably mono, Vladimir Horowitz on piano. Totally blew me away.
That is great. I don't recall exactly when, but discovering Rach's preludes after being so focused on his concertos was really finding a treasure chest of piano that really fit my ear. The E-flat major, the D-flat major, the G-sharp minor, the b-minor (rach's favorite he said), C-shart minor (we all wrote something like that at age 18 right?).
Here are Horowtiz's 1948 and 1981 recordings of the G-minor that @renauda was referencing.
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@Renauda said in Rach-ing that guitar:
Great guitar work on both. The G minor prelude has always been one of my favourites. I recall the first time I heard it - a vinyl, probably mono, Vladimir Horowitz on piano. Totally blew me away.
That is great. I don't recall exactly when, but discovering Rach's preludes after being so focused on his concertos was really finding a treasure chest of piano that really fit my ear. The E-flat major, the D-flat major, the G-sharp minor, the b-minor (rach's favorite he said), C-shart minor (we all wrote something like that at age 18 right?).
Here are Horowtiz's 1948 and 1981 recordings of the G-minor that @renauda was referencing.
Link to video -
@Renauda said in Rach-ing that guitar:
Great guitar work on both. The G minor prelude has always been one of my favourites. I recall the first time I heard it - a vinyl, probably mono, Vladimir Horowitz on piano. Totally blew me away.
That is great. I don't recall exactly when, but discovering Rach's preludes after being so focused on his concertos was really finding a treasure chest of piano that really fit my ear. The E-flat major, the D-flat major, the G-sharp minor, the b-minor (rach's favorite he said), C-shart minor (we all wrote something like that at age 18 right?).
Here are Horowtiz's 1948 and 1981 recordings of the G-minor that @renauda was referencing.
Link to videoWell that certainly augmented my first jolt of morning coffee! It never wears thin.
I think I prefer the 1981 version. The rubato is more refined than in the earlier version. More in line with a piano roll version I have with Rachmaninov himself playing it. Am sure you are aware that Rachmaninov and Horowitz became close friends after both had established themselves in the US.
