Rachmaninoff Paraphrasing Kreisler: “Liebesleid” (Love’s Sorrow) - Lugansky

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Kreisler-Rachmaninoff, "Liebesleid" (1921)
Nikolai Lugansky, 2020
From St. Petersburg Philharmonia

““The arrangements of F. Kreisler's waltzes “Liebesleid (Love’s Sorrow)" and "Liebesfreud (Love’s Joy)” were made by Rachmaninov in the 1920s (1921 and 1925, respectively), when there was a long break in his work due to his emigration. It was during this period that the composer turned to the genre of transcription, having transcribed his own romance "Marigolds" for the piano, Schubert's song "Wohin?" from the cycle "Die schöne Müllerin”, Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue from Partita in E major for solo violin by J. S. Bach, Scherzo from Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Minuet from Bizet's "L’Arlésienne", Hopak from Mussorgsky’s opera "Sorochinskaya Fair" and a number of other works.

Turning to the most popular pieces by Kreisler, Rachmaninov added to their melodic charm a brilliant virtuosic concert and an improvisational prelude. Since then, from Rachmaninoff’s “light hand”, these pieces have firmly taken their place in the pianistic repertoire.”

- Mariinsky program notes (translated), 2010

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I love the smile of the second concertmaster when he gets its liebesleid

henrykszeryng

This is probably the best interpretation of liebeslied That I’ve heard. It is not rushed. I know that Rachmaninoff what is a man of speed but I am very impressed with this performance.

caleblauber

Lugansky has definitely mastered Rachmaninoff's piano masterpieces. The emotion that Rachmaninoff embeded within those pieces, Lugansky successfully interprets.

arniepanlaqui

Most of the orchestra having lovely smiles when he starts playing. Truly a great piece of music transcribed by Rachmaninov, and wonderfully played by Nikolai Lugansky. 👏👏

rogerpianoking

There are so many virtuoso pianists interpreting this piece beautifully and even surprising.
But not everyone can show the deepest emotion and moments like Lugansky, Iiterally tearing. So good!

larghedoggo

Any violinist should be impressed with this: Rachmaninoff takes an admittedly emotional violin encore and transforms it into a nearly impassible tangle of conflicting emotions. With his music Rachmaninoff conveys love, pain, longing, forgiveness, anger, depression, all in one short piece. Expressing all of these feelings coherently and with nuance requires a feat of near genius

owenbishop

OMFG...these uploads... so good!

Update: just seeing my comment from 3 years ago. I heard Lugansky play this in the south of France last year. Honestly, I melted when I heard the opening notes.

conrad

Какая прелесть! Сам Рахманинов был бы счастлив, услышав такое восхитительное исполнение.Это же Луганский! Как всегда, нежно, чувственно и виртуозно!

galinamelnikova

0:08 I know this piece
0:10 Oh it’s Kreisler’s Liebesleid

gabrielalvarez

Beyond amazing playing by the brilliant Lugansky

Households

I have heard most interpretation. To me Lugansky and Rachmaninoff himself's interpretation are Tier 0. Lugansky's version is sensitive, dramatic and is telling you a beautiful sad story. That is, the ultimate sorrow is not that simply she doesn't love you. The ultimate sorrow love is that you're in love with her, having beautiful and joyful love story as you can hear in the melody, but also the PAUSE from time to time in the melody let you realize this love cannot last long: it's ephemeral. (This can be caused by War, disease or other factors. We all know Rachmaninoff played this in 1920..) Now the sorrow starts to spread, the joy and suffering starts fighting inside you through the entire melody. Lugansky's Paraphrasing shows all these things beautifully and perfectly.

Also the use of "love's sorrow" in the last episode of anime "You lie in April" perfectly shows the same sorrow as well: a love which is ephemeral. Kaori Miyazono basically knows she cannot live long in the first episode, but she hide the facts to her classmates. She is always smiling and encouraging. And she told Kousei Arima she'll always supporting him. She LIED, actually she lied more than 10 times (with kindness) in the anime, and finally and sadly she passed away in the last episode. This is why the anime is called "You lied in April", and the use of Love's sorrow is perfect here.

xujinzhang

Maravillosa interpretacion de esta gran obra de Rachmaninov! El Maestro Nicolai Lugansky extraordinario interprete !👏👏👏👏👏

cristinawierzbicki

Indeed a very good performance of this beautiful Rachmaninoff transcription, but we should not forget the performances by Magaloff, Charles Rosen and of cours 3 unedited versions by Wladimir Horowitz which are on You Yube now. Horowitz indeed could speed up, but he also 'dances' on the piano and brings out voices I never heard before in this piece.

pghagen