How To Write For Orchestra | Rachmaninoff

After a long wait, I am happy to publish the 3rd instalment in the How To Write For Orchestra series and it's all about Rachmaninoff and his influence over the musical canon.

This has been in the pipeline for a long time and has taken quite a lot of effort and time out of my already busy schedule to make. I'd appreciate any support, so please consider subscribing, liking and commenting. :)

Thank you so much for watching!

I hope you like the video :)

[mangomerkel]

What I admire about Rachmaninoff (the love of my life regarding music) is that he was pianist, conductor and composer. He was first class in all three.
Tchaikovsky knew the Orchestra, but didn't know the piano.
Chopin knew the piano, but didn't know the orchestra.
Rachmaninoff knew both incredibly well (since he was a conductor). That's why I love this man so much, that's why I love learning and playing his pieces, to upload them on YouTube.
Regarding the 'light at the end of the tunnel', I want to mention the 4th movement (Allegro vivace) of the 2nd symphony. Extremely beautiful and powerful!

[LukeFaulkner]

The 2nd symphony is painfully beautiful.

[temedy]

Great video, Rachmaninov's way of writing and orchestrating music always interested and inspired me the most of all composers. Aside from the example of the second movement of his 2nd symphony, there are just as great moments found in the first movement, using the same texture (violins playing the melody in octaves, etc.), which is pretty much really my favorite thing about his compositions, with the way he uses minor plagal cadences (the second movement) and how he's able to well cover so many different emotions and moods. Thank you for this video.

[TimBoulette]

@13:10 ABSOLUTELY! That section is gorgeous.

[riley]

i'm an aspiring composer and i self-taught myself orchestration by using a study score of Isle of The Dead (as well as Elgar's violin concerto as an example of what not to do, hah) which really speaks to just how brilliant Rachmaninoff was not only as an orchestrator but also as a storyteller. there are pages i still do not fully understand. however, i love how at his core, his ideas were so simple and so malleable. truly fascinating, and incredibly well explained and interpretated on your part. awesome video!

[miketackabery]

Any video about Rachmaninov is top of the list for me. His music and life are unendingly interesting to me. And this is a subject I had not the slightest idea of: thank you so much!

[looney]

It'd be interesting to see this kind of filmic analysis done with the works of Prokofiev and Shostakovich, both of whom composed several film scores (with Prokofiev's Battle on the Ice probably the most famous).

[dimitrisnikoloulis]

Rachmaninoff, what a brilliant composer ... '' The Isle of the dead '' op. 29 , is my top one work of his ! Really dark , macabre and gothic !

[timflatus]

Please talk about Rachmaninov more. I have long held him to be a master of orchestration and I'm a particular fan of his later works. It would be interesting to place him in context with Rimsky-Korsakov and Scriabin, as well as Stravinsky and Gershwin.

[twanswagten]

Great video! Rachmaninoff is my favorite composer, so I would definitely like some more videos about his music and composing style in the future!

[jonguirl]

Thank you for the video! The 3rd Symphony has always been one for me - It seems like I hear it in a lot of those orchestrations and little parts in old Hollywood productions.

[fiveeyedfrog]

Wow. Two of my favorite composers - Rachmaninov and Horner. Thank you so much for this video. Very interesting.

[eloycotallo]

I love Rachmaninov's music and I would love to watch more videos like this about any composer

[AlexSonicsMusic]

Love it, Louise. This video is quite a momentous effort. I love how it turned out. Thanks for that 🎶🌞

[_rstcm]

A bit of I personally think Debussy's Prelude to the afternoon of a faun also had an impact on the romantic side of Disney part of the middle section.

[lamorenalopez_obrador]

Rachmaninov fue un humilde marinero con el corazón abierto navegando un mar tumultuoso y amenazante pero!, se mantuvo a flote. Es un héroe incomprendido de aquel lejano siglo XX.

[mistral-unizion-music]

Very interesting. Well done! Yes I would be interested to know more and have a song or part of a song fully explained.

One of the best reference I may suggest in this type of music analysis is pro pianist Jonathan Biss in his awesome and superbly articulated Beethoven's piano sonatas free courses on Coursea.

[patrickdineen]

Very interesting video - thanks very much

[MichaelPigneguy]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you!

[sooth]

Thanks Taylor, beautifully explained and truly inspiring for my future

I deeply appreciate this documentary :D