There's something exhilarating about spending an entire evening in Rachmaninov's company. Not only for the melancholy of his final symphony, a page of exile and maturity concluded with the words "Finished! Praise be to God!" But also for the imagination that fantasizes about and reinvents the native Slavic land. "Joyful ringing, melancholic knells, every Russian carries within him this love of bells," notes its author, hoping, in this vocal symphony, which he considered one of his major achievements, to have "succeeded in making the bells vibrate with human emotions."

Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny

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