紙卷鋼琴 拉赫曼尼諾夫

Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor from Preston Richey on Vimeo.

Played by the composer. Recorded from my grandfather's player piano.

From the roll, "The Story of This Piece: It is winter, stark and bleak. Moscow lies in the midst of a frozen plain. Her desolate streets resound to the tread of Napoleon's invading army. Suddenly the great bells of the Kremlin sound. The city is aflame, the torch applied by the inhabitants themselves who with breaking hearts and mingled triumph and despair glory in their heroic sacrifice. The deep throated bells boom on, sounding above the rush and roar of the flames, the cries of the fleeing populace and the shrikes of the dying and all the confused terror and frenzy of destruction. Napoleon's dream of winter quarters for his army is vanishing before his eyes. In the closing chords one hears the dying sigh of spent furry, and hush of utter darkness and desolation."       by Preston Richey