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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Étude-Tableau in C minor, Op. 33, No. 3. Grave (1911; posth. pub. 1948) Nikolai Lugansky, 2020, Live at Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatoire “…The oppressive atmosphere of heavy chords is accompanied by the toll of a funeral bell, outbursts of despair give way to meek resignation. In the second half of the study written in C major, a lone voice bespeaking eternity soars high against the wavering background. One more surge follows (this harmonic sequence will appear later at the end of the Largo of piano concerto No.4) and finally the utter quietude of the recapitulation sounds like an epitaph to the dead.” - Lugansky, c. 1992
