#Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor

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Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-minor, arranged for solo piano

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 - I. Moderato

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my workload this semester isnt that bad so i actually have time to play piano and i am having the best time of my life with my new (112 year old) piano and new pieces

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If I had to be honest I'd say you've done better

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it's possible I made an extended playlist to give context to the classical (non-technically speaking) music in OFMD, with the pieces listed in historical/chronological order, and in the context of their full pieces (mostly - I'm not literally going to put entire operas on there, but symphonies and concertos have mostly been finished)

and it's possible that that playlist is ten hours long

and it's possible you can find it on spotify right now, and that below the cut is the full chronology

(edit: corrections welcome btw!!!! i am by no means a music historian, nor have any higher level music education, just a lifelong association and interest <3 if you know better than me, PLEASE let me know so it can be more accurate!)

N: most of the Vivaldi pieces don't really have any dates I could find, so they're just sort of scattered through the first few decades of the 18th century. and yes, technically the opening Corelli isn't in there, but I think putting another La Folia in is important for the context of s2!

1700 - Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op 5 No 12 "La Follia"

1703-6 - George Frederic Handel, Keyboard Suite No 4 in D Minor, HWV 437

? - Antonio Vivaldi, Cello Concerto in G Minor, RV 416

1711 - Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto No 11 in D Minor for Two Violins and Cello RV 565

1715 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in G Major TWV 41:G1

1718-20 - Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor Op 8

Early/mid C18 - Domenico Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in F Major, K 107

? - Antonio Vivaldi, Oboe Concerto in C, RV 452

1720s? - Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor, RV 531

1727 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156

1725-35 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Concerto for Recorder and Viola da Gamba in A Minor TWV 52:a1

? - Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in G Minor, RV 576

1730 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestral Suite No 3 in D Major, BWV 1068

? - Antonio Vivaldi, Piccolo Concerto in A Minor, RV 445

? - Antonio Vivaldi, Trio Sonata in D Minor, RV 63, 'La Follia'

1738 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Harpsichord Concerto No 4 in A Major, BWV 1055

1738-9 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto for Harpsichord, Strings, and Continuo No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056

Early/mid C18 - Domenico Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K 380

1741 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

1747 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Musical Offering, BWV 1079

1747-8 - George Frederic Handel, Concerto in F Major, No 16, HWV 305a

1773 - Mozart, Symphony No 25 in G Minor, K 183

1782 - Mozart, String Quartet No 14 in G Major, K 387

1795 - Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 2 in A Major, Op 2 No 2

1792 - Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 3 in C Major, Op 2 No 3

1780 - Mozart, Symphony No 34 in C Major, K 338

1786 - Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (excerpts)

1810? - Beethoven, Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59: Für Elise

1811-12 - Beethoven, Symphony No 7 in A Major, Op 92

1826 - Franz Schubert, Ständchen (Serenade) "Horch, horch, die Lerch!" D 889

1827 - Franz Schubert, 4 Impromptus, Op 90, D 899

1833-4 - Felix Mendelssohn, Lieder Ohne Worte, Book 2, Op 30

1835 - Frédéric Chopin, 12 Études, Op 25 (excerpts)

1838 - Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen, Op 15 (excerpts)

1838 - Franz Liszt, arr., 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S 558, No 9

1842 - Frédéric Chopin, Waltz No 12 in F Minor, Op 70, No 2

1871 - August Wilhelmj, arr., Air on a G String

1874 - Giuseppi Verdi, Messa da Requiem (excerpts)

1878 - Antonín Dvořák, String Sextet in A Major Op 48

1888-91 - Claude Debussy, Two Arabesques, L 66

1890 - Claude Debussy, Rêverie, L 68

1888, 89, 90 - Erik Satie, Trois Gymnopédies, Gnossienne No 5, Trois Gnossiennes

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Rachmaninoff - The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op 18 (Best Part)

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I was today years old when I found out that the song "all by myself" by Eric Carmen (later recorded by Celine Dion) is based on the 2nd movement (Adagio sostenuto) of Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 in C minor, opus 18

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Hi, could you do a Charles Emerson Winchester III (mash) x reader playlist??? thank you!!!!

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ heck yes! ugh, i can already hear Charles complaining about my 'plebian' music choices. maybe he should run this blog instead, haha!

The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan - Camille Saint-Saëns

Clair de Lune, L. 32 - Claude Debussy

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: Adagio sostenuto - Sergei Rachmaninoff

16 Waltzes, Op. 39: No. 15 In A Flat Major - Johannes Brahms

Stardust - Nat King Cole

Amore mio aiutami - Piero Piccioni

The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Gustav Holst

Laendler - Irwin Kostal

I Can Dream, Can't I - The Andrews Sisters

Embraceable You - Judy Garland

thanks for dialing in!

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It's because Tchaikovsky (Petro Chaika) was Ukrainian😭

He was the great-grandson of kozak Fedir Chaika from near Poltava.

"It is known that Petro Illich - during the time of a total ban on everything Ukrainian - sought to stage "Taras Bulba" by M. Lysenko in the Ukrainian language. He himself, in addition to the already mentioned opera "Cherevychky", generously saturated with carols, vesnyankas, historical, wedding and humorous songs, wrote romances based on poems by Taras Shevchenko (translated by L. May and I. Surikov), including "Evening" ("A Cherry Orchard Around the House").

The main theme of the First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is the song of the legendary Marusya Churai "Oh, Don't Go, Hrytsya, at the Vechornytsi", and the finale of the concert features the vesnyanka "Come Out, Come Out, Ivanko". Almost 28 years of the composer's life were connected with Kamyanets, in the Cherkasy region: here, in the estate, where his sister's husband was the manager, the maestro lived and created, admired the magical nature and listened with pleasure to melodic Ukrainian songs.

Petro Chaikovsky (he changed his surname during his studies in Kyivan-Mohylian Academy in Kyiv) rested in Ukraine for 28 years, until his death, where he wrote approximately 40 works, including, in particular, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, also called "Ukrainian".

You can read more here.

Please share this post so that people don't call a Ukrainian composer "russian".

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Monday, 12-16-24, 7pm Pacific

'Evenin', all...Mr. Baggins back with you, and I'm bringing some music to soothe your achin' nerves and help ease us all into a good night. We start this evening off with another of Haydn's piano concertos from that excellent set by Massimo Palumbo and the Austrian Chamber Symphony, conducted by Ernst Theis. We hear the Piano Concerto No. 2 Hob.XVIII:2.

Let's stay with Haydn for moment, but switching to Fritz Reiner conducting NOT the Chicago, but his own orchestra, "The Fritz Reiner Symphony Orchestra" in Haydn's Symphony No. 101, The "Clock" Symphony. Recorded September 1963, only two months before his death on November 15, 1963.

Now let's hear Fritz conducting The Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, with Pianist William Kapell, in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Recorded June 27, 1951. Truly the best performance of this piece ever!

Next we turn to a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, by Lenny and The Vienna. A live concert recording from October, 1988.

Now we reach back to August 30, 1956 for this wonderful peformance by Rudolf Serkin at the piano, with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Schneider, of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, K. 414

And since I noted above that Fritz Reiner died on November 15, 1963, we'll hear another of his very last recordings, made in the days following the sessions of the Haydn "Clock" above. Here is Haydn's Symphony No. 95 in C minor, Hob.I:95.

Let's listen again to Reiner/Chicago's unsurpassed recording of Mussorgksy/Ravel's Pictures At An Exhibition, made in 1958.

Now we hear Vladimir Horowitz in his 1955 recording of the Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 of Scriabin. This is one of Scriabin's most accesible works, quite beautiful, profound in spots. Horowitz never recorded any live performances of it, coming as it did in 1955, it coincided with Horowitz retreat from the stage from 1953-65. This was actually recorded by the RCA Engineers in Horowitz' 94th St. home!

And I thought we might hear Mme. Novaes in her wonderfully soothing performance of Chopin's 'Berceuse' (lullaby/cradle song) in D-flat Major, Op. 57, as a final selection this evening...a nice little send-off to dreamland.

And with that lovely work, our program draws to a close. I do hope you've enjoyed the selections this evening, and possibly heard something new to your ear. Mr. Baggins signing off for now, I will return at 8am Pacific with our Morning Coffee Music.

Until then, dream sweet dreams, babies, dream sweet dreams.

Baggins out.

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i am fucking loving your fic but i don’t know much about this kind of music, do you happen to have a playlist? i would love to listen

omg Yes lol this is the ideal ask to receive....firstly so glad ur enjoying the fic. secondly, i am by no means an expert (classical music is not my...forte) but this is just stuff i like/i think most people enjoy/know...it's not an exhaustive list. it is probably impossible to make an exhaustive list!! I am sure there are millions of people out there who could do a better answer to this qn (some of them will probably see this) so im mostly just gonna link the pieces that are mentioned (so far) in the fic and then maybe a few of my Favs...

mentioned in the fic

George Gershwin, Concerto in F (what Rhaenyra is set to play for the King's Landing concert) - this recording with Jon Nakamatsu on the piano and the Rochester Philharmonic is probably the best one (it's the first one I ever heard I think) but a personal fav of mine is Andre Previn with the LSO

George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (what everyone bitches is better than the Concerto in F lol) - again, Previn does a lovely version of this, Jon Nakamatsu's is also great, and I would be remiss not to mention Leonard Bernstein's version

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 6 ('Pathétique') (what they are rehearsing at the beginning) - just linking the NY Philharmonic conducted by Bernstein because it's soooooo cool that you can deadass just watch it on Youtube...

Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op 16 (what Rhaenyra tells Viserys she wants to play for the tour/she told Alicent she was always going to play w her conducting) - I think Alice Sara Ott's interpretation is mega, I tend to listen to her playing w the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orch but couldnt find it in my v cursive search on YT so the link is to her with the Danish National Symphony Orch

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor (what Rhaenyra was playing at the Eyrie that she then got up and stopped playing) - you almost definitely know this one!!!! The music from the second movement is aggressively interpolated into All by Myself by Eric Carmen lol. Ive linked a Khatia Buniatishvili version (of the second movement) bc it's like...perfect imo also she looks amazing. not the point but still

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No 3 in D Minor (what Alicent suggests that Rhaenyra plays for the Sunspear concerts) - this is basically famous for being like the hardest piano concerto in history!!! it rocks. every movement is a banger. linked Yuja Wang bc noooo one is doing it like her. also, another slayful dress moment!

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No 1 in B Flat Minor (what Alicent also suggests Rhaenyra plays but Viserys rejects) - another Alice Sara Ott win...

Mozart, Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major (what Alicent remembers watching Rhaenyra playing etc) - loveeee this recording:)

Chopin, Nocturnes (what Alicent finds a copy of in the practice room) - honestly I just went ahead and linked all of them. pick your fav! probably the 22nd is not in this compilation but that's bc no one likes it and everyone thinks it's not rlly his since they found it later :/ awkward

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 5 in E Flat Major ('Emperor') (what Rhaenyra played however many years ago that Alicent pretended to have never heard) - I think Hélène Grimaud plays this especially well so it's the one i linked. oldie but a goodie! but really any are good

Bach, Prelude 1 in C Major (first of Rhaenyra's soul-soothing classics) - Lang Lang <3

Bill Evans, Peace Piece (second of Rhaenyra's soul-soothing classics) - this is jazz, which I am actually FAR more equipped to talk about, but i have for some reason shackled myself to writing about classical music so....anyway she doesnt mention it by name but shes talking about Peace Piece. everybody DOES dig bill evans

Claude Debussy, Rêverie (third of Rhaenyra's soul-soothing classics) - Lang Lang x2 <3

Jules Massenet, Meditation from Thaïs (fourth of Rhaenyra's soul soothing classics) - honestly this piece is such a classic lol. everytime i hear it im like Wow Religious Experience much??? anyway it's actually from an opera (Thaǐs) so some versions have some quiet vocalising in the bg. which is nice if it's ur bag tbf. ive linked a nicola benedetti version bc i love her and also bc this one is just piano and violin which is what i envisioned w alicent and rhaenyra

vaguely mentioned in the fic/will be shortly

Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op 64 (Rhaenys's solo violin appearance)

Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor (Addam's solo cello appearance, one of my favourites in the world!)

Franz Liszt, Les préludes

Franz Schubert, Symphony No 9 in C Major

Jean Sibelius, Symphony No 1 in E Minor

Florence Price, Symphony No 3 in C Minor

Leonard Bernstein, Candide

ones i just like (this is not a list of the world's most exceptional classical music. i just like these ones)

Maurice Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte

Antonín Dvořák, Silent Woods

Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No 2 in F Major and also all his jazz suites. love him

Like anything by Philip Glass

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op 64

Mahler!! All of Mahler!!

ive left out like the biggies like swan lake and the planets and mozart's symphony no 40 etc bc i feel like you will come across those v quickly...also i am actually a choral singer so I havent gotten into all that bc my playlist of THAT music is genuinely 8 hrs long which would need a whole other post.

so TLDR: this is a weird, selective, and not at all representative list of music you might want to listen to. Enjoy !

lol but in all seriousness, if u end up wanting to get into classical music, just sticking on any classical radio station is usually a good way to go, BBC Radio 3 is EVERYTHING to me, shes v important<3 also, in terms of streaming services, most are honestly p rubbish when it comes to classical music but apple music have a 'classical' app which is like the only decent way to stream classical music without literally wanting to scream in confusion imo. so if u happen to have apple music it comes w ur subscription and is good! ok i hope this helps and once again glad ur enjoying da fic :)

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 - I. Moderato

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лишившись родины, я потерял самого себя. у изгнанника который лишился музыкальных корней, традиций, и родной почвы, не остаётся желания творить , не остаётся других утешений, кроме нерушимого безмолвия и нетревоженных воспоминаний. я записываю на бумагу музыку которую слышу внутри себя, и записываю её как можно естественнее. я - русский композитор, и моя родина наложила отпечаток на мой характер и мои взгляды. моя музыка, это плод моего характера , и поэтому, это русская музыка.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18, II. Adagio Sostenuto (Evgeny Kissin)