Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 1 No. 1 in f-sharp minor, Op. 1 (Shelley)

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
  • Rachmaninov composed the Piano Concerto No. 1, his Opus 1, at the age of 18, while he was still a student at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1917, more than two decades and two piano concerti later, he revised the score thoroughly, shaping the work into the form in which it is known today. This revised, "authoritative" version of the work is a tightly organized distillation of youthful passion and ardor, with the added influence of the turmoil that would soon force the composer to leave his native Russia for good.
    The Concerto opens with a portentious declaration from the horns and a cascade of piano chords that recall the pealing of the composer's beloved Russian bells. The main theme is lyric and melancholy, the second sprightly by contrast. The first movement's huge solo cadenza (10:14), propelled by powerful chords -- highly suggestive, again, of bells -- and fiery expression, is the real heart of the work. The Andante second movement (which contains some of the most beautiful moments in music I've ever heard) provides respite before the Allegro vivace finale, which is marked by a wild main subject in shifting rhythms and a fleet, virtuosic second theme. Rapid-fire chordal passagework from the keyboard brings this most melodramatic of Rachmaninov's concerti to a thrilling conclusion.
    0:00 - Vivace
    13:16 - Andante
    19:27 - Allegro vivace
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Комментарии • 108

  • @kmk8284
    @kmk8284 3 года назад +57

    This concerto has one of the best opening

  • @thiagosilveira5700
    @thiagosilveira5700 2 года назад +24

    this is a certified Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff moment

  • @jinwoosong8962
    @jinwoosong8962 3 года назад +53

    9:29 This violin solo part is amazing...

    • @estebanabad2795
      @estebanabad2795 3 года назад +2

      I feel the same

    • @DanielVodenitcharov
      @DanielVodenitcharov Год назад +7

      violin solos in the middle of an orchestral piece feel so expressive - they have a real singing quality:)

  • @nicholasfox966
    @nicholasfox966 4 года назад +23

    Should anyone be wondering, the orchestra is the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the conductor is Bryden Thomson.

  • @e.hutchence-composer8203
    @e.hutchence-composer8203 4 года назад +186

    This concerto is underrated!

    • @andrewmowatt6188
      @andrewmowatt6188 3 года назад +10

      It's actually one of his best rated concertos. Totally still underplayed

    • @ludix711
      @ludix711 3 года назад +3

      @@andrewmowatt6188 I thought many people back when Rachmaninoff had performed this piece had very low opinions on it.

    • @ludix711
      @ludix711 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewmowatt6188 And he was also very depressed because of it and had writer's block for a long while and after therapy and such he made the 2nd which was a great quality piece (I do love this one as well despite it being massively underrated)

    • @andrewmowatt6188
      @andrewmowatt6188 3 года назад +3

      @@ludix711 we'll bring it back to the light. :)

    • @ludix711
      @ludix711 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewmowatt6188 Indeed friend!

  • @davidorme1993
    @davidorme1993 2 года назад +5

    So nice to hear this instead of 2 and 3 over and over again.

  • @danlo5
    @danlo5 2 года назад +17

    Between his incredible Schumann concerto and this, I feel like I've totally slept on Shelley. Will definitely need to check out more of his recordings.

  • @canman5060
    @canman5060 3 года назад +6

    My best love of all Rachmaninoff piano concertos.

  • @remomazzetti8757
    @remomazzetti8757 2 года назад +26

    Grieg's A minor Concerto served as the model for the original version of this Concerto: in fact, the Grieg was Rachmaninoff's favorite Piano Concerto. The original version of the Rachmaninoff has been recorded.

  • @matteogenerani5097
    @matteogenerani5097 5 лет назад +26

    0:00 - Vivace
    13:16 - Andante
    19:27 - Allegro vivace

  • @robertbairdmusic
    @robertbairdmusic 5 лет назад +5

    So incredible - thanks for sharing!

  • @kaybrown4010
    @kaybrown4010 8 месяцев назад +1

    Wow, that’s a strenuous piece for the orchestra as well as the soloist.

  • @greatmomentsofopera7170
    @greatmomentsofopera7170 4 года назад +9

    Wonderful video again. Fantastic series. Didn’t know this concerto. That second movement is both ravishing and wonderfully strange. Very impressionistic. The opening of the second movement is very like the opening of Tristan und Isolde, rising chromatic scales landing on surprising chord each time. Fascinating.

  • @Iceshocker
    @Iceshocker 2 года назад +5

    Truly underrated.

  • @alibagirov6618
    @alibagirov6618 6 лет назад +16

    It is PERFECT!!!

  • @snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454
    @snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for uploading!

  • @gerardbegni2806
    @gerardbegni2806 6 лет назад +21

    The revision of the concerto gives it a supreme equilibrium, which can be encountered in each movement. The rendition is very beautiful.

    • @roo159
      @roo159 2 года назад

      this rendition is outstanding in most places for sure

  • @Fortepiano9467
    @Fortepiano9467 Год назад +2

    Rachmaninoff is amazing the sound and harmony is passion

  • @user-th4lz1dc8y
    @user-th4lz1dc8y 4 года назад +6

    Браво👏👏👏

  • @vladibaby79
    @vladibaby79 6 месяцев назад

    very good!!!! Great pianism which fits perfect to this music

  • @leoinsf
    @leoinsf 2 года назад +8

    Ah, Rach! Sublime yearning at its best in this concerto!
    Yes, this is a revision of the original, but I can still hear the masterful themes and treatment that Rach seemed to be born with.
    I have always heard that great composers do not sit at the piano and allow their hands to limit the development of their compositions,
    but all of Rach seems to be about "noodling at the piano" and the excellence of his ideas and themes.
    Yes, even his masterpiece: the Second Symphony sounds pianistic. Rach, the piano, the world!

  • @JoshuavanderVeen
    @JoshuavanderVeen 4 года назад +22

    25:57 "meow mix" theme lol

  • @paulaespin-piano2150
    @paulaespin-piano2150 5 лет назад +14

    21:35

  • @sandercouck8454
    @sandercouck8454 2 года назад

    Monumental

  • @789armstrong
    @789armstrong 4 года назад +5

    Howard Shelley has an affinity for Rachmaninoff's music that transcends criticism.

  • @user-bu1qs5nw6c
    @user-bu1qs5nw6c 3 года назад +3

    진짜 낭만적..

  • @FeonaLeeJones
    @FeonaLeeJones 4 года назад +32

    I see so many similarities between all four of his Concerti.

    • @edwardmalenfant7547
      @edwardmalenfant7547 4 года назад +9

      Rachmaninoff has a very particuliar tone and colour

    • @marksmith3947
      @marksmith3947 Год назад +1

      @@edwardmalenfant7547 he was quite repetitive. He also revised too much, so that many pieces lack freshness

  • @Skidoo22
    @Skidoo22 5 лет назад +4

    the best moment from 27:11

  • @fidelcastro9112
    @fidelcastro9112 6 лет назад +24

    2:55

  • @Populous3Tutorials
    @Populous3Tutorials 4 года назад +6

    at 7:25 begins saint saens concerto 2 mov 3

    • @joeyblogsy
      @joeyblogsy 2 года назад

      It’s also where Lieberman got his idea for the last movement of Garogoyles.

  • @journey3451
    @journey3451 3 года назад +2

    スクリャービンの協奏曲も同じ調性なのは何かあるんでしょうかね。。。?

  • @pabloseena8278
    @pabloseena8278 2 года назад +3

    6:58
    12:05
    17:36

  • @larrybear2382
    @larrybear2382 3 года назад +18

    When I was 18 I was learning Music Theory 101.

  • @lacobymills4930
    @lacobymills4930 4 года назад +2

    7:00

  • @gfbtfbtfilyfxbtyewqqef
    @gfbtfbtfilyfxbtyewqqef 2 года назад

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff

  • @kofiLjunggren
    @kofiLjunggren 2 года назад +2

    this is so similar to griegs concerto!!

    • @Dylonely42
      @Dylonely42 2 года назад +1

      Where (except the beginning part) ?

    • @kofiLjunggren
      @kofiLjunggren 2 года назад +2

      The structure

  • @je0ngmln
    @je0ngmln 2 года назад +1

    7:34

  • @anon_64326
    @anon_64326 2 года назад +5

    idk why piano 2 sounds like a trumpet or something else

  • @MegaMawnadger
    @MegaMawnadger 5 лет назад +8

    do you know where i can find the sheet that is used here ?

  • @georgewbushcenterforintell147
    @georgewbushcenterforintell147 Год назад

    Music is perfect for Warhammer

  • @dapperdecidueye247
    @dapperdecidueye247 4 года назад +16

    The beginning is very Grieg-like. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

    • @alanleoneldavid1787
      @alanleoneldavid1787 4 года назад +2

      The orchestra reminds me to the start of the Grand polonaise Brillante

    • @user-hf4pi5do9h
      @user-hf4pi5do9h 4 года назад

      ikr

    • @zackwyvern2582
      @zackwyvern2582 4 года назад +12

      Yes. If you read the wikipedia page about this concerto, you'll find that Rach was fond of it.
      "Composition students were usually advised to base their efforts on a specific model for their first exercises in new forms. In Rachmaninoff's case this was the Grieg Piano Concerto, which was a favorite work of his and one which he had been familiar from Siloti practicing it at the Rachmaninoff household during the spring and summer of 1890 for future concerts. Rachmaninoff adapted the entire musical structure of the outer movements to the Grieg concerto, literally building his music into it. With all his other concertos, Rachmaninoff would prove more enterprising."

    • @djknsw21112
      @djknsw21112 4 года назад +2

      That was probably why this concerto was criticized when it came out

  • @KevinMusgrave
    @KevinMusgrave 6 лет назад +17

    Howard Shelley is the best

  • @Valheurbia
    @Valheurbia 2 года назад +3

    11:07 Scriabin moment

  • @serendipity98
    @serendipity98 5 лет назад

    이걸 누구보고 치라고 만든고임?

    • @sehankwon9515
      @sehankwon9515 5 лет назад

      그래도 라흐마니노프 콘체르토 2,3,4번보단 치기 수월하다고 하네요..ㅋㅋㅋ

    • @serendipity98
      @serendipity98 5 лет назад

      권세한 라흐 존경하는데 와 지만치라고 만든것같음

  • @meredithspencer1695
    @meredithspencer1695 3 года назад

    gacha songs

  • @specialperson335
    @specialperson335 3 года назад +3

    I enjoy Prokofievs first piano concerto more than this one. I feel it has more artistical vision for being a first concerto at a young age. I've always felt that Prokofiev is more original and more musically talented than Rach even though I love some of Rachs work as well. There is just something about Prokofiev that is out of this world. Hate to compare but they were active during roughly the same time and Prokofiev just had a very fresh different new take on music, while I feel Rachmaninoff was perfecting the romantic music we already know, but with less originality.

    • @thepianocornertpc
      @thepianocornertpc 3 года назад +4

      From a pure pianistic point of view, Rachmaninov's music has much more to offer. To me, Prokofiev's music feels a bit like it's "deliberately constructed". Rachmaninov is just flow, flow and more flow. I do like both composers a lot.

    • @aidanm.1683
      @aidanm.1683 3 года назад +2

      rachmaninoff was a romantic composer
      prokofiev was something completely new (contemporary)
      imo Rachmaninoff is the peak of romanticism.
      Prokofiev is chopin of contemporary music imo
      So you're right Prokofiev was definitely something new

    • @specialperson335
      @specialperson335 3 года назад +2

      @@aidanm.1683 but not only was he something new because of the new style (modernism) but also because his own musical vision is quite different to many other modernists. Most modernists are very different to eachother, for example Bartok, Ravel, Shostakovich and Prokofiev sound completely different when compared to eachother. So Prokofiev isnt just a modernist, his own unique musical vision was incredibly strong and unique. A prime example of this is his third piano concerto. So argument being that i feel that Prokofiev is more unique and original of course compared to modernists than rachmaninoff is compared to other romantic composers.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 Год назад +1

      you may prefer it, however, prokofiev is incredibly incompetent at writing harmony and melody, nevermind form. his first concerto is objectively bad in almost every aspect. being more original may make it easier for you to emotionally attach yourself to the piece, but other than that, it is completely worthless. Rach's 1st concerto is amazing, prokofiev's is a mistake.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 Год назад +1

      ​@@specialperson335 unique this, unique that. he'a not good. he needs to be good for hisnuniqueness to matter, most of the time, what makes him "unique" is musical mistakes.

  • @damiangilz
    @damiangilz 5 лет назад +1

    A little too abstract for my tast, but ambitious.

    • @gregorypalmer5403
      @gregorypalmer5403 3 года назад +5

      Keep playing it. It will grow on you. All 4 of his concertos are terrific and while critics and customers both have plugged 2 and 3 over the years, 1 and 4 have plenty of great ideas, expositions, etc to go around the room. I love 'em all. I do tend to agree with those who like the revised version but the original is very nice too. If you come across it don't pass it by. 4 also exists in a revised version but again the original is very nice too.

    • @roo159
      @roo159 3 года назад

      It seems a bit more jazzy, but I found it really fresh :)

    • @specialperson335
      @specialperson335 3 года назад

      @@roo159 This was written in 1891, so if you think its sound jazzy then jazz might sound like rachmaninoff to you.

  • @pianoman1857
    @pianoman1857 11 месяцев назад +1

    11:26

  • @user-nt5kk2dh2c
    @user-nt5kk2dh2c Месяц назад

    25:57

  • @kamile296
    @kamile296 7 месяцев назад

    12:19

  • @sovietunion4875
    @sovietunion4875 11 месяцев назад

    12:19