Capuçon. Lugansky Rachmaninoff Vocalise, for Cello and Piano

Sergey Rachmaninov (18731943) 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 wasnt 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