This musical work ends with such technical virtuosity that a friend suggested that its composer, who premiered the work himself, drink crème de menthe before playing this piece.
This musical work ends with such technical virtuosity that a friend suggested that its composer, who premiered the work himself, drink crème de menthe before playing this piece. In one part, the bassoon and strings play the main theme in the background while the solo part plays, for the first time, the "Dies Irae" theme. The solo instrument plays emphatic chords between the opening eight off-center bars with their octatonic scale in the bass, which is the source of the keys that the composer uses in various parts of this work, including the D major key used in what is considered the end of its slow section and its most famous part, the 18th variation. FTP, identify this work of Sergei Rachmaninoff, written for piano and orchestra and based on the 24th caprice written by the title composer.
This musical work ends with such technical virtuosity that a friend suggested that its composer, who premiered the work himself, drink crème de menthe before playing this piece.
{Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini}