Capuçon . Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Vocalise, for Cello and Piano

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (1912/1915), arranged for cello and piano Nikolai Lugansky, piano Gautier Capuçon, cello September 2020 Moscow Philharmonic Society “… This was accompanied by a type of auditory hallucination that tormented me for months on end, day and night, even while I was asleep. I started to hear a recurrent musical phrase a few bars long, violently rhythmical and rising in pitch. It was based on a chord of a diminished seventh. In the cold light of day I tried to work out what it meant, even though the torment was permanent, even telling myself that such a phenomenon might be of interest to medical science. But try telling doctors about chords of a diminished seventh! Sometimes I would lie awake all night trying to work out what I was hearing - I wasn’t hearing it, but just thought I was - or to work out its pitch. I was forever trying to identify the notes and these primitive harmonies and to correct them, as it was the most fright