Topic: Rachmaninov: Excerpt from Piano Concerto Op 30 Mvt II
Here is a short excerpt from the second movement of Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto, Op 30.
It picks up at rehearsal mark 25 and continues up to mark 37 (approximate duration 08:45).
I hope you will enjoy it, and thank you for listening !
Technical Notes:
For this I used the Antonin Petrof grand piano (the 2.75m offering, not the "Mistral" one) with the "Recording 3" preset. I did not make any adjustments to it other than turning off the reverb since I would add that afterwards via the DAW. Bravo Pianoteq for making this piano available - you guys have done an amazing job with capturing this piano!
Performance Notes:
Originally, I had not planned on capturing the "Scherzando" part of this movement (Rachmaninov's Haunted Ballroom waltz episode..), since I had thought to play part of it only and then fade out the soundtrack. However, I did not like doing that to Rachmaninov's music, so I decided rather to learn the rest of the section and then had to record it in a separate session (since I'd already started adding in the orchestra parts to what I'd captured previously). I left in many of the imperfections since I thought that no one would believe I had played it otherwise I did make a video of me playing the movement as well, but decided rather not to add it because my fingers looked like baby carrots in the video for some reason..
