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Rach3

I’m playing Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto to celebrate and make up for the absence of my beloved who returns from visiting her family in St Petersburg in a few days' time. Beautiful, bittersweet, incredibly powerful, deeply moving, soulful, and timeless- Rachmaninov’s music echoes the spirit I fell in love with when I met Elena in Moscow those 18 years ago. I had started out on my new life and vision for a better future for myself and our world some 20 years ago after a difficult divorce in London. I needed a soulmate to co-create a small corner of paradise, an oasis, a habitat for the evolution of regenerative human potential, in a ruined old chateau in southwest France.

What has been described as: “Perhaps the most difficult piece ever written for piano, Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto is 40 minutes of finger-twisting madness”, is a romantic masterpiece, exuding irresistible sensuous charm, literally mindblowing and heart-rending. Audiences, understandably go wild with applause, bravos, and standing ovations whenever “Rach3” is played. As Wikipedia puts it:

“The Third Piano Concerto especially shows a structural ingenuity, while each of the preludes grows from a tiny melodic or rhythmic fragment into a taut, powerfully evocative miniature, crystallizing a particular mood or sentiment while employing a complexity of texture, rhythmic flexibility, and a pungent chromatic harmony”.