Progetto Martha Argerich

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Sergey Rachmaninov

Suite no. 1 in G Minor, op. 5

 

During a brief holiday in the Kharkov province in the summer of 1893, twenty-year-old Sergei Rachmaninoff composed the Fantaisie-Tableaux, Op. 5, later known as the Suite No. 1. The original title perhaps gives a better idea of the specific nature of this work, the four parts of which were inspired by poems by four poets. The first movement is a barcarole in G minor, inspired by lines of Lermontov; the second takes a Byron quote as its point of departure; the third part is based upon Tyutchev’s poem, Tears, and evokes the sound of the bells of the church of St. Sophie in Novgorod. The fourth and last part makes reference to Komyakov’s poem, Easter Holiday, and uses the same Easter melody that Rimsky-Korsakov adopted in his famous Russian Easter Overture.

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1. Barcarolle
2. La nuit... l'amour
3. Les larmes
4. Pâques

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