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Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Isle of the Dead

The Isle of the Dead is a 20 minute piece that feels much longer than that. It offers almost no respite from its gloomy character, which it shouldn't given its topic. Rachmanonoff could have gotten through this piece in eight minutes considering the material he had to work with. He draws out the experience of seeing this image, and plants us in front of the painting perhaps longer than we would normally be comfortable with.

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