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The Closing Ceremony is on right now - with Rach 2 being performed in the middle of the stadium by Matsuev. Do watch!
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Just saw it! That was quite something!
![[Linked Image]](http://forum.pianoworld.com//gallery/42/medium/12291.png) 18 ABF Recitals, Order of the Red Dot European Piano Parties - Brussels, Lisbon, Lucern, Milan, Malaga, St. Goar Themed recitals: Grieg and Great American Songbook
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I wasn't fast enough! 
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I wasn't fast enough! If you can access BBC iPlayer, you'll be able to watch it again soon. I love the Russians' use of culture (and they certainly have a lot of it) in their ceremony - Moussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich...a pity they can't throw in Scriabin's Le Poème de l'extase, or even Prometheus with the Luce included....  But there's still two hours to go....
"I don't play accurately - anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
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I wasn't fast enough! If you can access BBC iPlayer, you'll be able to watch it again soon. I love the Russians' use of culture (and they certainly have a lot of it) in their ceremony - Moussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich...a pity they can't throw in Scriabin's Le Poeme de l'extase, or even Prometheus with the Luce included.... But there's still two hours to go.... Not only musical culture, but also tributes to literature - Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Dostoyevsky, and painting with an odd scenario with images/concepts from Chagall's work. (It was news to me that Chagall was Russian as well as French! -Live and learn).
18 ABF Recitals, Order of the Red Dot European Piano Parties - Brussels, Lisbon, Lucern, Milan, Malaga, St. Goar Themed recitals: Grieg and Great American Songbook
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Did he and his buddy Putin play a duet?
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Did he and his buddy Putin play a duet? That's Putin it where it can be heard 
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I love the Russians' use of culture (and they certainly have a lot of it) in their ceremony - Moussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich...a pity they can't throw in Scriabin's Le Poeme de l'extase, or even Prometheus with the Luce included.... And to think that the first great Russian composers were born in the 19th century!
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Chopin: op. 25 no. 11
Haydn: Sonata in in Eb Hob XVI/52
Schumann: Piano concerto 1st movement
Rachmaninoff: op. 39 no. 8
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Their intended audience hasn't heard Rachmaninoff a bajillion times, and even if I have, I still like it. I think their choice makes sense.
Tchaikovsky was a surprise though. Ya know, since he's so fabulous.
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I didn't get to see the performance.. very upsetting.
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