I wanna know what your favorite interpretation of this concerto are.
Yesterday I was listening many versions, many pianists, including Rachmaninoff himself, was a bit surprised by his tempo of the first movement, because usually pianists tend to play it in a bit slow motion style
, perhaps it makes it sound more sentimental/melancolic, but Rachmaninoff is quite in tempo. So, far my favorites are Denis Matzuev and Alexis Weissenberg. But the praised interpretation by Martha Argerich isn't very satisfying for me, she tries to emphasize expression of almost every phrase, therefore it produces too many "accentos" for my taste at least, while each phrase each musical period should be played in a more objective manner, without this overemphasizing of a particular note or intonation what she precisely does in her interpetation. it was a version of 1982 with a Berlin orchestra BPO, orchestra was emotional as well...too emotional ..... I think they have a stereotype for playing Russian music and perhaps they get an entire concept of Russian music as being emotional /too emotion which is in some cases true, in some is not. Horovitz interpretation is somewhat close to Rachmaninoff's I think.
Yesterday I was listening many versions, many pianists, including Rachmaninoff himself, was a bit surprised by his tempo of the first movement, because usually pianists tend to play it in a bit slow motion style
, perhaps it makes it sound more sentimental/melancolic, but Rachmaninoff is quite in tempo. So, far my favorites are Denis Matzuev and Alexis Weissenberg. But the praised interpretation by Martha Argerich isn't very satisfying for me, she tries to emphasize expression of almost every phrase, therefore it produces too many "accentos" for my taste at least, while each phrase each musical period should be played in a more objective manner, without this overemphasizing of a particular note or intonation what she precisely does in her interpetation. it was a version of 1982 with a Berlin orchestra BPO, orchestra was emotional as well...too emotional ..... I think they have a stereotype for playing Russian music and perhaps they get an entire concept of Russian music as being emotional /too emotion which is in some cases true, in some is not. Horovitz interpretation is somewhat close to Rachmaninoff's I think.
