Découvrez la vidéo Rachmaninoff Melodie Op. 3 №3 1940 version ( second time with overhead camera angle view for study) de Valentina Lisitsa QOR Records Official channel sur Le Fil YouTube de Piano Partage.
See the previous video for [somewhat humorous] illustration on how does it take "just" a simple music scale - and a genius, to compose a beautiful melody.
Melody, Melodie - this is the title young Rachmaninoff gave this early piece. At the end of his life, in 1940, he came back to it, to give this melody a lush and sensuous veil of harmonies and voices, turning a simple, adorable and innocent school level composition into a late Romanticism masterpiece. Yes, the melody or Melodie is just a straightforward E major up and down scale, the kind we learn in the first grade, hard to believe