Wholesale ⌛ Sergei Rachmaninoff – The Harvest Of Sorrow DVD –   ❤️

Used in films like Brief Encounter and Shine; on TV in The South Bank Show and Panorama; on radio in Semprini Serenade; and including some of the most famous melodies of the 20th century Rachmaninoff’s romantic passionate music is as popular today as it has ever been. This 100-minute documentary film shot in Russia Switzerland and America is made with the full participation of the composer’s grandson Alexander Rachmaninoff. Featuring soloists Mikhail Pletnev (with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and his own Russian National Orchestra) Dmitri Hvorostovsky and young stars Valentina Igoshina Peter Jablonski and Nikolai Putilin the music is specially recorded with the great conductor Valery Gergiev and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg with which Rachmaninoff was intimately associated. Tony Palmer’s film with Rachmaninoff’s own words spoken by Sir John Gielgud is a unique and loving insight into a world long gone but definitely not forgotten.