Tokyo Sonata scene depicts Kenji performing "Clair de Lune" from the Suite bergamasque at his audition with Megumi, Ryūhei, and his piano teacher watching. His performance is flawless. Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, while Nick Schager of "Slant Magazine" gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Christopher Bourne of "Meniscus Magazine" said, "Kurosawa's latest film, "Tokyo Sonata", is his best in quite a few years, a truly frightening work that achieves its effects without resorting to tired genre mechanics." He also wrote that "Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' may well have never been put to
Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) of the emotional tone of the music," the music itself is not programmatic. This work was first performed on November 30, 1893, by Rachmaninoff and Pavel Pabst in Moscow, and is dedicated to Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff composed a second suite in 1901. The four movements are: Perhaps surprisingly, given that Rachmaninoff wrote orchestral and two-piano versions of his "Symphonic Dances", which is effectively a three-movement symphony, no one has orchestrated this "Suite" as a possible symphony. Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Suite No. 1 (or "Fantaisie-Tableaux" for two pianos), Op. 5, is a composition for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Composed in