Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (1900-1901)
Nikolai Lugansky, soloist
Antoni Wit conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Varsovie
Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, 2011

I.
[0:00] Expos. - Theme 1 (Moderato - 2:15 espressivo)
[2:48] Expos. - Theme 2 (Tempo I)
[5:20] Dev. (Moto precedente - Più vivo - Allegro)
[7:05] Recap. - Theme 1 (Maestoso. Alla marcia. - 7:37 Meno mosso)
[8:50] Recap. - Theme 2 (Moderato)
[10:40] Coda (Meno mosso)

II.
[11:35] Adagio sostenuto
[15:21] Un poco più animato
[17:27] Quasi-cadenza (Più animato - Più mosso)
[19:38] Tempo I
[21:14] Coda

III.
[22:34] A (Allegro scherzando)
[24:29] B (Moderato)
[26:34] A' (Allegro scherzando - Presto - 27:27 fugato episode)
[28:56] B' (Moderato)
[31:13] A'' (Allegro scherzando - Alla breve. Agitato - Presto - Cadenza)
[32:51] B'' (Maestoso)
[33:45] Coda (Più mosso - Risoluto)


“He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto--or the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second. Men have not found the words for it, nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don’t help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don’t work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Part 4 - Howard Roark