Rocky as in Rachmaninoff.
2006-12-08 14:30:38 · 4 answers · asked by Batmanthebig 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
WTF????
2006-12-08 14:33:02 · answer #1 · answered by Cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Woah! ME! I'm playing the Rach Second, and it's awesome. Yes, it's increadably fast and the first apperance of the theme by the piano in the last movement is like death, but it's a showpiece to end all! I know they say the rach third is harder (supposedly the hardest concerto ever) but I recently got to meet Garrick Ohlsson when he was here to play with the Utah Symphony, and he said that the second is actually harder, the third is just bigger. It never gets old. Rachmaninoff is also my favorite composer to listen to. I'd recomend the Isle of the Dead, which is a quasi-programatic piece based on Arnold Boklin's painting by the same name, the Vocalise (in any of it's many arrangements), the Prelude No. 5 in G minor (Opus 23), and Murray Periah's recordings of some of the Etudes-Tableaux in the Aldeburgh Recital.
By the way, it's nice to see that at least one more person is un-dense enough to call rachmaninoff 'rachmaninoff' instead of 'rachmaninov'. If 'Rachmaninoff' was good enough for S.V.R., it's good enough for us.
2006-12-10 20:29:44 · answer #2 · answered by Pianist d'Aurellius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES … Rocky III is also a nickname for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto.
It is one of the most difficult works for piano ever written and has the reputation of being the most difficult concerto in the entire piano repertoire.
2006-12-09 07:32:33 · answer #3 · answered by Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
r u a band geek or something?
2006-12-08 23:26:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋