Rachmaninoff Prelude G Major Valentina Lisitsa

Prelude g major Op. 32 No. 5 - a lost paradise. ...Sticky and humid late summer afternoon, when hot air seems to tremble rising over ripening fields - only birds are able to pierce this thick air with their plaintive songs in anticipation of a thunderstorm -- finally this heavy air falls down to earth with drops of rain... This is not a dainty French or Italian landscape -- these are southern Russia wheat fields. This is Rachmaninoff’s ancestral land - the land he never ceased to dream of from far away...