4th piano concerto (Rachmaninoff)
The Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, op. 40 is the last piano concerto by the Russian composer Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninoff .
Emergence
Piano Concerto No. 4 was written between January and August 1926 as the composer's first major work after he emigrated to the USA . However, Rachmaninoff may also have relied on sketches that had already been made in 1914.
The concert received two reworks, once in 1927 and the other time in 1941.
To the music
Sentence sequence
- Movement: Allegro vivace (G minor)
- Movement: Largo (C major)
- Movement: Allegro vivace (G minor - D flat major - G minor)
analysis
The concert is influenced by jazz , especially in the middle movement . This becomes clear not only in the rhythms of the concert, but above all in its harmonious phrases.
effect
The Piano Concerto No. 4 was premiered on March 18, 1927 in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski . The public reaction to the concert was as devastating as that of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 .
Among Rachmaninov's piano concertos, the fourth is considered the least popular. While some felt it wasn't modern enough, some others felt it was too modern. Only the second post-production from 1941 achieved a certain popularity.
literature
- Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl (eds.), Bertelsmann Konzertführer , Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1993, ISBN 3-570-10519-9
- Harenberg concert guide, Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund, 1998, ISBN 3-611-00535-5
Web links
- 4th Piano Concerto (Rachmaninov) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Harrison, Max, Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings. London and New York 2005, p. 253; Norris, Gregory: Rachmaninoff. New York 1993, p. 60