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Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 13 in D flat major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:35:00 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Alexis Weissenberg

Prelude Op. 32 No. 13 in D flat major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:27:25 +0000

By Nikolai Lugansky

By Vadim Chaimovich

By Vladimir Horowitz

By Valentina Lisitsa

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Sviatoslav Richter

By Vladimir Sofronitsky

Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 11 in B major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:14:36 +0000

By Emil Gilels

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 11 in B major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:08:27 +0000

By Valentina Lisitsa

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Sviatoslav Richter

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 9 in A major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:58:24 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 9 in A major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 8 in A minor

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:55:00 +0000

By David Fung

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 8 in A minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 7 in F major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:44:35 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 7 in F major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 6 in F minor

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:31:23 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 6 in F minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:22:58 +0000

By Vladimir Horowitz

By Vadim Chaimovich

By Valentina Lisitsa

By Grigory Sokolov

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 4 in E minor

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:08:44 +0000

By Dmitri Levkovich

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 4 in E minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 3 in E major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:02:49 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 3 in E major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 2 in B flat minor

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:52:35 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 2 in B flat minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 1 in C major

zygis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:46:48 +0000

By Lillya Zilberstein

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 32 No. 1 in C major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 10 in G flat major

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:12:55 +0000

By Emil Gilels

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Grigory Sokolov

By Evgeny Kissin

Prelude Op. 23 No. 10 in G flat major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 9 in E flat minor

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:04:05 +0000

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Grigory Sokolov

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 23 No. 9 in E flat minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 8 in A flat major

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:58:14 +0000

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Grigory Sokolov

Prelude Op. 23 No. 8 in A flat major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 7 in C minor

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:13:54 +0000

By Nikolai Lugansky

By Vadim Chaimovich

By Sviatoslav Richter

By Grigory Sokolov

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 23 No. 7 in C minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:04:08 +0000

By Nikolai Lugansky

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Van Cliburn

By Vladimir Sofronitsky

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Grigory Sokolov

Prelude Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:49:47 +0000

The Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5 is a composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff completed 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. It is an epitome of Rachmaninoff’s Russian nationalism, rife with full chords and evocative melodies.The Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5 is a composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff completed 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. It is an epitome of Rachmaninoff’s Russian nationalism, rife with full chords and evocative melodies.

The prelude’s form is similar to that of a traditional three-part rondo, consisting of an opening “A” section with punctuated sixteenth-note chords (marked Alla marcia), a more lyrical and melancholy “B” section with arpeggiated triplets in the left hand (marked Poco meno mosso), a transition into the original tempo, and a recapitulation of the initial march. Despite the bombast of the main march theme, the piece ends with a short arpeggiated run to a high G, marked pianissimo.

Although the g minor prelude is not considered one of the most technically challenging preludes, the speed of the march section and its thick repeated chords require both strong wrists and dynamic control, while the middle section requires a controlled legato in both hands to ensure that the melody is properly projected.
The composer recorded this piece, but because of the piece’s musical “flexibility”, it can be found performed in a variety of different styles, much contrary to the composer’s recordings.

There is a famous video in which Emil Gilels plays this Prelude at a front in World War II, in support for the Soviet military forces fighting the war. The narrator says (in Russian): “Gilels is playing at the front, to remind us what the war is worth fighting for: Immortal music!”

This Prelude is one of the most performed and recorded pieces of the set, displaying the virtuosity and musical genius of Rachmaninoff.

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By Evgeny Kissin

By Andrei Gavrilov

By Emil Gilels

By Vladimir Horowitz

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Sergei Rachmaninov

Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 4 in D major

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:26:02 +0000

By Nikolai Lugansky

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Grigory Sokolov

By Sviatoslav Richter

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 23 No. 4 in D major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 3 in D minor

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:14:50 +0000

By Nikolai Lugansky

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Grigory Sokolov

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 23 No. 3 in D minor sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 2 in B flat major

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:00:31 +0000

By Evgeny Kissin

By Emil Gilels

By Valentina Igoshina

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

By Grigory Sokolov

Prelude Op. 23 No. 2 in B flat major sheet music

Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 No. 1 in F sharp minor

zygis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:36:04 +0000

By Nikolai Lugansky

By Abdel Rahman El Bacha

By Sviatoslav Richter

By Grigory Sokolov

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. 23 No. 1 in F sharp minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prelude Op. posth. A flat major

zygis — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:23:26 +0000

By Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prelude Op. posth. in A flat major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 45 C sharp minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:11:48 +0000

The prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 (sometimes listed as Prelude No. 25), was composed in 1841. It was dedicated to Princess E. Czernicheff, and contains widely extending basses and highly expressive and effective chromatic modulations over a rather uniform thematic basis.

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By Ivo Pogorelić

By Alessandro Drago

By Fou Ts’ong

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 45 C sharp minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 24 D minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:50:15 +0000

The long last Prelude of the set, No. 24 opens with a thundering five-note pattern in the left hand. Throughout the piece, the left hand continues this pattern as the right hand plays a powerful melody punctuated by trills, scales (including a rapid descending chromatic scale in thirds), and arpeggios. The piece closes with three booming unaccompanied notes- the lowest D on the piano.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Ivo Pogorelić

Prélude Op. 28 No. 24 D minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 23 F major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:38:39 +0000

Prelude No. 23 is spacious and melodic in the left hand, with running semiquavers throughout in the right.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

By Ivo Pogorelić

Prélude Op. 28 No. 23 F major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 22 G minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:19:05 +0000

Prelude No. 22, molto agitato, is in 6/8 time; it begins with a characteristic dotted rhythm (quaver, dotted quaver, semiquaver) that Scriabin was later to make his own, in his early preludes that are perhaps the most important to emulate this genre of Chopin’s.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

By Ivo Pogorelić

Prélude Op. 28 No. 22 G minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 21 B flat major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:13:45 +0000

Prelude No. 21 is marked cantabile, and features an easy melody in the right hand; the left has continuous doubled quavers characterised by chromatic movement, taken up by the right hand also in the latter half of the piece.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

By Ivo Pogorelić

Prélude Op. 28 No. 21 B flat major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 20 C minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:59:52 +0000

Prelude No. 20 is short but quite famous, with slow majestic crotchet chords in the right hand predominating, against crotchet octaves in the left. It was originally written in two sections of four measures, although Chopin later added a repeat of the last four measures at a softer level, with an expressive swell before the final cadence.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 20 C minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 19 E flat major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:45:54 +0000

Prelude No. 19, vivace, consists of widely spaced continuous triplet-quaver movement in both hands.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 19 E flat major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 18 F minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:39:57 +0000

The irregular Prelude No. 18 is suggestive of a mortal struggle. The technical challenges lie chiefly in the irregular timing of the three runs, each faster than its predecessor, played simultaneously by each hand one octave apart. A fortissimo five-octave arpeggio echoes downward into the depths of the bass registers, where the final struggle takes place and culminates with the double-fortissimo chord finale.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 18 F minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 17 A flat major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:32:05 +0000

Prelude No. 17 is one of the longest and the favourite of many musicians, including Clara Schumann. Mendelssohn wrote of it “I love it! I cannot tell you how much or why; except perhaps that it is something which I could never at all have written.”

By Antti Siirala

By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 17 A flat major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 16 B flat minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Following the “Raindrop”, the angry Prelude No. 16 starts with six heavily accented chords before progressing to an impromptu-like passage in the right hand. The left hand mainly supports the right hand and repeats the same melody repeatedly. This piece is considered the most difficult of the set.

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By Sergio Tiempo

By Evgeny Kissin

Prélude Op. 28 No. 16 B flat minor

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 15 D flat major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:48:58 +0000

Prelude No. 15 in D flat, nicknamed the “Raindrop” Prelude, is the longest of the twenty-four. The main melody is repeated three times; it is melancholy, despite its major key. The middle section is much darker; the melody moves to the bass and the right hand mostly repeats G sharp (enharmonically equivalent to the repeated A flat of the opening section), first alone and then in octaves. The mood becomes more agitated with the melody’s return to the right hand and an increase in volume, with many large chords. After this the melody and texture of the first section return briefly, leading to a restful ending.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Maurizio Pollini

By Rafał Blechacz

By Vladimir Horowitz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 15 D flat major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 14 E flat minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:35:28 +0000

Prelude No. 14 recalls Prelude No. 1 in its shortness and textural uniformity.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 14 E flat minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 13 F sharp major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:27:17 +0000

Prelude No. 13, lento, is long and has continuous single-note quaver movement in the left hand, with chords and melody in the right.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 13 F sharp major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 12 G sharp minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:19:26 +0000

Prelude No. 12 presents a technical challenge with its rapid hold-and-release of quavers against crotchets in the right hand, involving much chromatic movement.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 12 G sharp minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 11 B major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:02:07 +0000

Prelude No. 11 is in 6/8 time and is similarly brisk, with continuous quavers.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 11 B major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 10 C sharp minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:32:58 +0000

Prelude No. 10, molto allegro, is short and light, with alternating triplet and non-triplet semiquavers in the right hand, over arpeggiato chords in the left.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 10 C sharp minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 9 E major

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:20:42 +0000

Prelude No. 9 is a harmonically dense piece with a low “plodding” bass line.

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By Alexander Kobrin

Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 9 E major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 8 F sharp minor

zygis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:11:47 +0000

Prelude No. 8, molto agitato, is considered one of the most difficult in the set, featuring continuous demisemiquaver figuration in the right hand, with contrasting semiquaver triplets (alternating with quavers) in the left hand.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 8 F sharp minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 7 A major

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:21:39 +0000

Prelude No. 7 is written in the style of a mazurka, in 3/4 time.

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By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 7 A major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 6 B minor

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:16:01 +0000

By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 6 B minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 5 D major

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:04:09 +0000

By Alexander Kobrin

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 5 D major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 4 E minor

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:45:32 +0000

Prelude No. 4 is one of the most famous pieces Chopin wrote. It was played at his funeral and is relatively easy, with a slow melody in the right hand and repeated block chords in the left hand.

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By Tzvi Erez

By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 4 E minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 3 G major

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:30:43 +0000

Prelude No. 3 is marked vivace, and has a running semiquaver bass part throughout.

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By Rafał Blechacz

Prélude Op. 28 No. 3 G major sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 2 A minor

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:22:55 +0000

Prelude No. 2 is an immediate contrast, with a slow melody over a fixed accompaniment of four-note chords played two quaver notes at a time.

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By Rafał Blechacz

By Alexander Kobrin

Prélude Op. 28 No. 2 A minor sheet music

Frédéric Chopin Prélude Op. 28 No. 1 C major

zygis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:06:43 +0000

Prelude No. 1 marked agitato, is short and uniform with its triplet-semiquaver figuration.

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By Rafał Blechacz

By Alexander Kobrin

Prélude Op. 28 No. 1 C major sheet music