What analytically is the Russian Sound that Rachmaninoff creates in his piano concerto?
In the time of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, the rise of Communism and Lenin had caused Russian pianists living under the despots of the Iron Curtain to be forced to obey such totalitarianisms. Part of the tenet of the Soviet Union is the power coming from the Kremlin with Lenin (which was like a Russian form of Carl Marx) as its batter and Joseph Stalin creating the icing. So, “power” inside the Soviet government was transferred to the compositions of Russian composers under that time….Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, and most especially, Balakirev and Scriabin. Their music focuses on the power of “bell sounds” for Russian Easter celebrations, and the national Soviet marching band in Moscow playing for the Soviet president in any press review. Hence the “Russian piano sound”….which is devised by first the pre-striking phase and the striking phase in referring to the landing of the piano key…. Pre-striking phase….. Before the fingers or hand land on the key,
