Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau in G minor, Op. 33 (No.8/No. 5/No. 7)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Étude-Tableau in G minor (1911)
Originally written as #8 in a set of 9; published as #5 in 1911; labeled as #7 after reinstating two études posthumously published in 1948
Nikolai Lugansky, 2016

“Étude-tableau in G minor casts a gloom, bringing to one’s mind Pushkin’s lines about autumn:

‘O drear and cheerless time, you charm the eye and tender.
Contentment to the heart. How wondrous to behold
Your dying beauty is, the lush and sumptuous splendour
Of nature’s farewell bloom, the forests clad in gold...’

The drooping melodies seem to be sad remembrances of the past and even the sudden gusts of cold wind (in the middle of the piece) can’t dispel the mood of sweet sadness.”

- Lugansky, c. 1992

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