Sunday, October 16, 2022

Little Red Riding Hood by Rachmaninoff

I've been working on this piece since the Kapustin Toccatina.  While I could improve upon this take, I'm thinking of moving on to other pieces.  I might try for a better recording later, in which case I'll replace the one here.  This piece has a lot of fast jumping chords that just take a lot of repetition to get the muscle memory right.

Rachmaninoff originally didn't give this piece a title as evocative as "Little Red Riding Hood", but decided to reveal his inspiration later after others wanted to arrange it for instruments other than piano.  Listening to it, I feel like Little Red Riding Hood just gets caught and eaten by the Wolf.