Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
We Have No Idea How Much We Mean To God
Listening to Rachmaninoff’s 3rd is one of my solitary pleasures. Thanks for the new video! I’ve previously only known Martha Argerich’s version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOOfoW5_2iE
The Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto and the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto are considered the most technically difficult music written for piano. To play it from memory is nothing short of master genius. Fedorova, Astanova (Russians) and Buniatishvili (Georgian), all women, do it. I believe Yuga Wang, also a woman, also plays the R 3 from memory.
Just as we live in an era of muscle cars, we also live in an era of classical music performance virtuosi numbering more than I can remember previously during my years. I take this as an auspicious phenomenon. Where Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Messiaen, Dupre and Rachmaninov are played, there is The Church. All these countries, including China, are doing it. So all are Churchifying themselves. Even more auspicious would be emergence of well-tempered composition in fresh tonalities.