0:00 Rachmaninoff wrote lots of notes
2:29 The passage in context
3:58 Sokolov plays it (without messing up)
4:58 Two types of memory slips: #1 Vertigo
5:57 Competition winner & Gavrilov's vertigo
6:47 Two types of memory slips: #2 Lost in the Woods
7:25 Require first aid: Melnikov, Bunin, Chopin laureate
8:00 Missteps: Howard, Zimerman, Kissin
8:57 Wrong inversion: Kocsis, Ohlsson
10:59 Rachmaninoff forgets his own notes
11:45 Four tricky things about the passage
14:17 The "purely musical way" of memorizing it
16:38 The experience of being hypnotized
Ben Laude and Garrick Ohlsson explore a notorious passage in Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.
Study Rachmaninoff's piano works on tonebase: https://app.tonebase.co/piano/home?tbModal=composerProfileModal&tbModalSlug=Rachmaninoff
Watch Grigory Sokolov play Rach 2: https://youtu.be/FRX5uM9cEos
Watch Nobuyuki Tsujii play Rach 2: https://youtu.be/KgPXOW5bpZk
Watch Yeol Eum Son play Rach 2: https://youtu.be/vspoD2loR2E
Produced and edited by Ben Laude.
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