Appreciation of Flute Instruments in Rachmaninoff's Overtures

There are many things to analyze on Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto. His concert is full of emotions, imagination, and deep feelings. It is like traveling back in time to different ages. It allows you to clear your mind and it takes you to a parallel universe full of thoughts and emotions. He uses different techniques to accomplish this purpose. His playing is full of feeling and sense. Every note he plays has the perfect touch, and it happens throughout his entire concert. The more you hear him, the more you feel the need for his music. He is an absolutely amazing pianist and compositor. It is a golden piece to music and to art. In his 2nd Piano Concerto, he plays along with an orchestra that only makes you wonder how long they can keep you inside this musical fantasy.

Rachmaninoff is an excellent musician in the Second Piano Concerto. His play is a sense of perfect simplicity. He starts brilliantly, and with something so simple that we derive to take it for granted. He plays a sequence of piano chords that increase and they are all based on a root note, each strengthened by the sound of the lowest note of the song key he plays in, and through the harmonic tension and energetic force that is based probably on a minor chord. Then a clarinet plays a plain but expressive melody and the piano accompanies it with some sonorous chords. But the pianist role as instrumentalist also says many things. Nowhere is the pianist so often a joint partner and so rarely a soloist violently in the foreground as in this initial movement. I believe Rachmaninoff adds two small afterthoughts in some tightly prepared musical paragraphs and follows it by a set of cadential chords. It is then when the orchestra falls still and Rachmaninoff steps forward to play a solo in a romantic manner.

Rachmaninoff plays a bridge section into the second part of his play. There, you appreciate a flute instrument and the pianist playing a melody together but is mostly led by the flute. Then you hear that the clarinet is the one that ends with a greater length melody. During this bridge, you can appreciate how the orchestra and the piano work with delicacy to form a unison. You can appreciate perfect melodies played by the piano during the first phrases of the clarinet. But they also reverse later in the bridge. There is also a quick interlude that mainly functions as a token scherzo. The interlude then eases with a sound of a pair flutes and then you appreciate some beautiful arpeggios at the end. The concert ends with a final bridge with conspiratorial music. This works a way around the assertive entrance of the piano. The conspiratorial music now sounds a little vigorous. The whole concert opens up to different musical ideas. The transitions are great and the pauses allow Rachmaninoff to transition to another feeling of playing. The talent is amazing and you feel the need for him and the orchestra to tell you more of the details of their musical story.