我想知道Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2既資料

At the turn of the century Rachmaninov was only just emerging from that enervating period of self-doubt caused by the catastrophic performance of his First Symphony in 1897.

For the next three years or so, he was unable to bring himself to compose anything of importance, but the summer of 1900, while staying in Italy with Fyodor Shalyapin, he wrote his unaccompanied anthem Panteley-tselitel (Panteley the Healer), conceived the bulk of the love duet for his Dante opera Francesca da Rimini, and began work on the SEcond Concerto. He played the second and third movements in Moscow in December that year, added the first movement in the spring 1901, and gave the first complete performance on 27 October, dedicating the work to Dr Nikolay Dahl, whose treatment had been largely responsible for lifting him from his depression and restoring confidence in his creative abilities.

The concerto was an immediate and lasting success, impressing all with the impassioned intensity of its long opening theme, with the spontaneity of its memorable melodic invention, and with its exquiste craftsmanship.

佢性格係一個完美主意，而且沈默寡言的人，臉上常帶着嚴肅的神態