Amazing Piano Climaxes and Codas (from Underrated Composers)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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Some of the best insane virtuoso piano climaxes and codas, featuring Alkan, Godowsky, and more. We all know our Liszt and Rachmaninov, but the works in this list are all masterpieces as well, so check them out. I already have some ideas for Part 2 - let me know your favorite big moments in the piano literature in the comments!
Performances:
No. 1: • Senekeremian Plays Alk...
No. 2: • Medtner - Sonata Tragi...
No. 3: • Godowsky: Passacaglia ...
No. 4: • Medtner - Piano Concer...
No. 5: • Felix Blumenfeld - Etu...
No. 6: • Hamelin plays Alkan - ...
No. 7: • Saint-Saens Piano Conc...
No. 8: • Franck - Prelude Chora...
No. 9: • Medtner - Sonata Tragi...
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8:13 - It's actually the 3rd movement, not the 2nd.
You are right of course; this typo has been bugging me since the video's release
i showed this to my $100 walmart rockjam keyboard and I think it climaxed.
12:30 I find it both amusing and fascinating how Medtner simulates the drama of wrong notes by actually writing them in.
Is this a Hanson exercise ....
@@zuhairbakdoud1360 ???
Which ones sounded wrong to you? They all sounded fine to me.
They probably mean the F# and G clashes. But the G is actually held from previous bars (as a dominant pedal, though it goes from bass to treble) while bass note descend from F# to Db, the tritone sub. It is still amazing that Medtner decided to highlight that juicy clash though.
Saint-Saens' 2nd concerto underrated? News to me, I thought it's quite popular. And I believe it's the third movement you shared, not the second.
You aren't wrong. It's one of the staple piano concerti. Not many are more famous. Grieg, Rach 2, 3 and pag var, Chopin 1 and 2, maybe Liszt 1 and 2 and a few more maybe.
@@sebastian-benedictflore Beethoven emperor, Tchaikovsky 1, Bach Italian, Prok 2, maybe Brahms 1 and 2, Rhapsody in Blue
I knew there will be Medtner just by the thumbnail! His concertos are so underrated! Piano concerto 3 has the greatest coda ever, but the 1st piano concerto has also many great reason to be on the list!
I've been dying to see some godowsky in compilations such as those. FINALLY!
Medtner's first piano concerto is the most amazing thing I have ever heard written for piano
Alkan has some sublime moments
The Coda of the 4th movement of Alkan's Sonatine definitely deserves a spot in another part.
Oh, Alkan wrote so many epic codas. For example, "Quasi-Faust" from Grande Sonate and the finale of the Concerto.
@@rosiefay7283 The quasi-Faust is an absolute marvel, a truly stunning composition
Wow! I’ve never heard the Medtner piano concerto - beautiful! I want to listen to the whole thing now!
Have you listened to it? What did you think?
One of my favorite piano concerto ever! I hope you enjoyed it.
I am grateful that you chose underrated composers, most of climaxes are new for me
Tbh classical composers have way better chord progressions than us.
I really need to dive deeper into Medtner's work
Surprised to see my favourite piece (Franck) here :-)
Great list! Some of my favourites make an appearance here :)
The last Medtner bit is my favourite
You should listen to Balakirev's 1st Scherzo in B minor, IMHO is has epic climax and coda.
I love these indications in Russian given by Medtner like: 1:51 "Here starts the (разливанная) cantilena" (I can't exaclty translate this word because people don't use it nowadays, but the closest is "broadly flowing"); 12:51 "Don't TAP the upper notes in thirds"
Yes, Alkan and Medtner are great, actually they are my most favourite composers ever!
I have been seeing a lot of this "Medtner" lately. Heard many good things about the composer. Do you have some pieces you can suggest from him for me to listen? I would want to discover this composer.
@@Lavirfra I suggest his mostly his piano concertos (2nd and 3rd are my favourite), Night wind sonata, Sonata romantica, War sonata in a minor, Opus 11, Violin sonatas (mostly 3rd one), opus 51, etc. He wrote so many great pieces, that it's hard to choose some.
Saint Saëns piano concerto no 2 is standard piano repertoire.
Next video:greatest piano edging
What.
@@collinm.4652 huh😶🌫
Thank you, sir. Have a good day.
SOUND QUALITY
nice
Very enjoyable video!
Thank you
Okey I stop playing piano
No Feinberg 3?
These are great but I agree that the uploader should’ve added some Feinberg.
Saint-Saëns: what am I doing here?
Really dislike Tozer's Tragica actually. It's played too fast and it becomes muddy and sloppy. Tozer is usually phenomenal (e.g. his rendition of the Minacciosa) but sometimes it's a clear miss.
no one can disagree, the best composer of all time, Alkan
Are you on crack???!?! Bach clears all
I'm sure many people disagree
This statement is just preposterous. Nobody worth their salt things this.
I'm not sure, but I guess that you didn't hear Alkan's pieces, or you did but only the hard montrous ones, or even that you're a beginner at music (please guys don't think of this is an offensive statement), I recommend you to hear his adagio from his sonate de concert for cello and piano, i guess that it's the best adagio that i've ever heard in my life, you can also search for Alkan's piano trio, the 3rd movement "lentement", or his esquise op 63 no 11 "les soupirs", the piece that inspired Debussy, there just so many underrated pieces by him, and it's a shame that some premiers are just done recently, I even talk about 3 years ago, while Alkan was about 200 years ago
and i'm also pretty sure that the petroushka's theme was inspired by Alkan, you can search about Impromptu Opus 32 No. 1 No. 3 “Fantasietta alla Moresca”
Is Saint-saens underrated...?????? sounds misleading...
Saint-Saëns is NOT an underrated composer, and the concerto featured here is one of the standards in the repertoire!
I'm not a great fan of collections of hard loud bits divorced from their musical context. It's a bit too much like vulgar sensationalism. And I doubt the composers would like the thought of being turned into a kind of musical circus.
The only good one is Number 6 imo, Alkan is a beast and he's underestimated.
Bruh
I can only disagree. The first one is for example a pale imitation of Chopin Scherzo quoda. César Franck is a genius and way above all the others in this video.
Agreed. The first one.. it's terrible. It's the type of piece that seems to have been composed by an AI. People think CODAs must be extemeley fast and full of thousands of notes to be good. When we compare the harmony constructed by Chopin with some of this list.. it is tragic.
@@Lucmercurius I wouldn't have said it better
@Rexy I agree. The second movement of the Grande Sonate, "Quasi-Faust", is better than the first movement.
Sure thing, but the medtner pieces in here for instance simply pure gold and saying franck is much abive him is kinda nonsense since they are not comparable and masters at their own craft
no piece in this list is as good as the passacaglia by godowsky.
César Franck is NOT an underrated composer, and the work featured here is also a standard in repertoire! GEEZ!
You genuinely dont know what underrated means, do you?
Franck is not underrated
This is music, not technical exercise....
Yes
Who said that these were just technical excercises?
Why underrated composers? There is a difference between technical virtuosity and composers genius. Maybe this codas make effect, but they are just noisy, using too much of ligtning und thunder, but that´s all.
Disagree, these are deeply musical codas
I know it's hard to accept that these are musical, because that would by default mean that it's you who lack in understanding. But no one understands all music. Even if you are a genius when it comes to one form, like electro, you might be average in another, say bebop. If you're a genius when it comes to Chopin, you might be ignorant when it comes to Cesar Franck. Which is completely okay. Through confrontation one builds an understanding for it, like with wine. But to accuse the debated object of being faulty, that just highlights bias and unwillingness to find fault in self.
Thanks God we hear this moments of piano rubbish so rear. Only Saint-sans has an appropriate coda in that examples.
This is not music - it is mere technical exercises...
We have “pianists” today who play this noise and call themselves musicians...
I give them one thing, though, they are fit to join the Olympic Games.
Hey champ, that’s really interesting! Next time, keep it to yourself.
I genuinely am convinced that you're just a troll and you're knowingly saying things that are stupid.
Pineapple, in the USA we have free speech. Guten Tag. And thank for your message.
@@zuhairbakdoud1360
Didn’t know that people in the US didn’t practice common sense, because you left like 3 different comments on something you don’t even enjoy... Gluten day to you too
It must be nice to be smart.
they're overrated, should be left to rot in history.
Womp womp
boring
nope, Medtner's never boring