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Topic: anyone play rach 3?  (Read 2899 times)

Offline macman1288

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anyone play rach 3?
on: May 26, 2004, 12:52:00 AM
does anyone play rachmaninoff 3?
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Offline EthanT

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Re: anyone play rach 3?
Reply #1 on: May 29, 2004, 02:09:14 AM
....most of us have lives man....
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Re: anyone play rach 3?
Reply #2 on: May 29, 2004, 07:41:27 AM
HAHHA  ;D

Well yeah most of us (cough cough), actually that would be my personal pinnicle of my piano career to execute that puppy, or er...pit bull
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Offline thracozaag

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Re: anyone play rach 3?
Reply #3 on: May 29, 2004, 05:36:07 PM
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HAHHA  ;D

Well yeah most of us (cough cough), actually that would be my personal pinnicle of my piano career to execute that puppy, or er...pit bull


 A lot of notes, man...lot of notes.  I remember talking once with Kalichstein about the Brahms B-flat concerto..his conclusion was "Life's too short". haha

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Offline Motrax

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Re: anyone play rach 3?
Reply #4 on: May 29, 2004, 09:12:01 PM
As I like to joke, Rachmaninoff should've just spilled a bottle of ink over the page with the cadenza - the notes are so densely packed, it wouldn't look any different.

I'm gonna start Rach 2 this summer, and that certainly seems hard enough.
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f0bul0us

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Re: anyone play rach 3?
Reply #5 on: May 29, 2004, 09:14:42 PM
I'm learning it inside out, almost finished the 2nd movement and then going to start with the 1st, and third.
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