Rach 2 has been voted the nation's favourite piece in a poll of Classic FM listeners, for the second year running. Scorn was poured on it for decades - here's why we fell back in love
Rach 2 has been voted the nation's favourite piece in a poll of Classic FM listeners, for the second year running. Scorn was poured on it for decades - here's why we fell back in loveIn ‘Brief Encounter’ , Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 almost became a character in its own right More unusual, though, is that your critic is not going to react here by rubbishing the nation’s top musical wallow. This concerto is one of my favourites too.
But that was 79 years ago. A couple of generations have probably grown up without experiencing that film. The fact is that this concerto, written in 1900-01, is everything that music turned away from after the Second World War. If it’s still our top favourite today, that might suggest a disruption in the chain of supply and demand for newer classical compositions.
After the Second World War, a generation of composers revolted against the four-square rhythms of military marches, which they associated with the conflict. They also threw out the tonal system that we in the West all learn in our nursery rhymes, and looked for a new way to write. Composers including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Milton Babbitt advocated “total serialism” .
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