Rachmaninov: Etude a-minor op.39 no.6

[chris_master]

Please  comment this recording,   Thanks  a lot

[prongated]

It's good! Just don't rubato that often. It can be played more lyrically as you do, but you still rubato way too often - in fact, not even in his elegie would one use this much rubato! Think about it.

[chris_master]

thanks  I appreciate your opinion, i haven't thought about this piece in that way.

[iratior]

I think that Rachmaninoff cut a piano roll with this piece on it, so we have an actual record of how he (presumably) wanted it to sound.  His example is a very demanding one.  The repeated-note theme is given a very precise, piercing quality that I and even chris_master don't attain.  There is not much rubato.  To do this etude, there ought to be some image of Russian life, some background thing to think about while playing it.  What is this image?  I don't know.  Sometimes I think it evokes images of taking a wild troika ride through a snowbound Russian winter landscape.  It was about time somebody submitted a recording of this etude-tableau, and anyone with ideas of the images that this etude could evoke should feel free to come forward and share them.