Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2

This came out in 1901. I doubt it charted, but it made his name. It is in a film I want to watch, “Brief Encounter” (1945), so I want to listen to it beforehand.

I am not a classical music fan, but one thing that jumps out at me listening to it is that about 14 minutes in, in the second movement, it sounds suspiciously like “All By Myself” (1975), a soft-rock song by Eric Carmen. It is not just me. The Rachmaninoff estate noticed that too! And so did Carmen – but he thought it was in the public domain. Maybe in the US it is, but not everywhere apparently: the Rachmaninoff wound up getting a 12% royalty on Carmen’s song. At least two other Carmen songs also rip off pieces of this concerto.

The video was filmed in Amsterdam in or before 2013.

– Abagond, 2021.

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• songs