![]() ![]() – Limited edition on canvas comes hand embellished, framed, numbered and signed by Alex Levin. This Painting is available as a reproduction on canvas or metal in 2 options: limited and open edition. A final outburst, an anguishing and furious descent through the tonic chord, brings the piece to a close.This Venice painting has been inspired by music of Rachmaninov – Elegie in E-flat minor Lingering on this moment, the piece eventually makes its way back to the reprise of the opening section by means of a brief cadenza. Propelling the piece’s momentum, this melody brings about a powerful climax that seems to contain both joyful memories and anguish over the departed. Against tremolos in the right hand, an ardent melody wells up out of the low register of the piano with a dramatic outlining of a G-flat major chord that spans the interval of a tenth. The ensuing central episode, however, introduces a more agitated state. After two measures of introduction, a doleful melody is introduced atop this accompaniment that is consistently pulled downward by the weight of some imagined grief. Lone arpeggios of the tonic chord establish the mournful air of the piece. ![]() Playing opener to this well-known piece, however, is the Elégie in E-flat minor. ![]() 23 and 32), begins, at least chronologically, his set of preludes in all twenty-four major and minor keys. Without a doubt, the most famous work from this set of piano pieces is the Prelude in C-sharp minor, which when grouped with Rachmaninoff’s other two sets of preludes (opp. Indeed, except for the closing “Sérénade,” all embody a regular ternary form. ![]() The work’s title, meaning “fantasy pieces,” alludes to their being, in essence, character pieces, and not to any freedom of form. Composed in 1892, the year of his graduation from the Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninoff dedicated the set of pieces to his harmony professor, Anton Arensky. 3 are one of the earliest indications of the composer’s burgeoning mature and individual style. The five pieces of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Morceaux de fantaisie, op. ![]()
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