I was hoping to find live footage of a real Rachmaninoff performance but there's only a pittance of actual film of the guy. Would've been cool. This is just a picture with some audio of Rachmaninoff playing live in 1939. It has the lush feel of a film score (it put me in a Fritz Lang mood) though much more expansive.
He went from being primarily a composer to primarily a player, a rarity I suppose though in the 20th century with recording technology and intercontinental transport improving one would think it wouldn't be such a rarity. Why is it that Vladimir Horowitz or Yehudi Menuhin, for example, were such reluctant composers while being such marvelous players?
Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Piano Concerto #3
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