É uno stupendo concerto, una serie di variazioni, mirabimente composte, partendo dall'esposizione iniziale dei violoncelli.Un capolavoro del RK maturo.
I fell in love with this concerto. I have never heard it live, so I decided to play it myself... We'll perform it tomorrow in Milan! 🙏🏻 What a good rendition, thank you for sharing:)
@@ijskålleter It went well, thank you! The music of a fairy tale, and loved by the audience, too, most of which have never heard this concerto before :)
One continuous Movement consisting of three contrasting sections: I. Moderato-Allegretto quasi polacca (00:00) II. Andante mosso (06:11) III. Allegro (10:22)
"Among my own works, jotted down during this season [the early 1880s], must be set down the sketch of a Piano concerto in C sharp minor on a Russian theme, chosen not without [Mily] Balakirev's advice," writes Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in his memoirs. He continues with his characteristic engaging honesty, "In all ways this concerto proved a chip from Liszt's concertos. It must be said that it sounded beautiful and proved entirely satisfactory in the sense of piano technique and style; this greatly astonished Balakirev, who found my concerto to his liking. He had by no means expected that I, who was not a pianist, should know how to compose anything entirely pianistic." Rimsky-Korsakov leaves unsaid the thought that one could learn to compose pianistic music by studying Liszt, but it will occur to most listeners when hearing this piano concerto, which proceeds on the Lisztian one-movement, one-theme model. The theme the older Balakirev suggested for Rimsky-Korsakov's use is dark and dashing. Solo winds introduce it, and the piano answers, alternating between the coruscating runs, heavily ornamented lyrical passages and explosive chords expected in these works. The slow middle section expands on various gestures in the theme while rising to a grandiose fever pitch of emotion; Rimsky-Korsakov also borrows Liszt's use of solo instruments from the orchestra, with the piano acting as accompanist. A final Allegro con fuoco section, introduced by abrupt fanfares in the brass and chords tolling like bells in the piano, uses a slightly modified version of the original theme to drive the music quickly to a grand conclusion. (AllMusic)
Despite rimsky korsakov primarily writing for orchestra, he wrote some great stuff for this concerto. Of course the orchestration is brilliant as always.
Chad Weirick -- Exactly! I mean, between all that Composing, Orchestrating and Hyphenating his name...WHERE DID HE FIND THE TIME? Greetings from Acapulco!
@@chadweirick67 -- OMy...BOSTON! I remember spending 2 weeks at The Copley Plaza while my Québécoise girlfriend danced at Matthews New Hampshire, just across the border...so as not to offend Cardinal Bernard F. Law!
Pretty weak music unfortunately… The performance is perfect and the recording is great too. ( except of the covered orchestra through the soloists octaves close to the end) ) . OK to listen once or twice, but there are many more interesting (but also less known) piano concertos from Russia. Glazunov, Lyapunov, Arenski, Medtner, even. Anton Rubinstein … and the list can be extended.
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Hats off to the pianist, orchestra and conductor. Excellent performance. We take for granted how good they sound.
É uno stupendo concerto, una serie di variazioni, mirabimente composte, partendo dall'esposizione iniziale dei violoncelli.Un capolavoro del RK maturo.
I fell in love with this concerto. I have never heard it live, so I decided to play it myself... We'll perform it tomorrow in Milan! 🙏🏻
What a good rendition, thank you for sharing:)
How did it go?
@@ijskålleter It went well, thank you! The music of a fairy tale, and loved by the audience, too, most of which have never heard this concerto before :)
8:49
One continuous Movement consisting of three contrasting sections:
I. Moderato-Allegretto quasi polacca (00:00)
II. Andante mosso (06:11)
III. Allegro (10:22)
Underrated concerto whereas it’s pretty good for its form.
Yeah it has a very interesting form... basically three movements condensed into one, and it's very effective in my opinion.
"Among my own works, jotted down during this season [the early 1880s], must be set down the sketch of a Piano concerto in C sharp minor on a Russian theme, chosen not without [Mily] Balakirev's advice," writes Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in his memoirs. He continues with his characteristic engaging honesty, "In all ways this concerto proved a chip from Liszt's concertos. It must be said that it sounded beautiful and proved entirely satisfactory in the sense of piano technique and style; this greatly astonished Balakirev, who found my concerto to his liking. He had by no means expected that I, who was not a pianist, should know how to compose anything entirely pianistic." Rimsky-Korsakov leaves unsaid the thought that one could learn to compose pianistic music by studying Liszt, but it will occur to most listeners when hearing this piano concerto, which proceeds on the Lisztian one-movement, one-theme model. The theme the older Balakirev suggested for Rimsky-Korsakov's use is dark and dashing. Solo winds introduce it, and the piano answers, alternating between the coruscating runs, heavily ornamented lyrical passages and explosive chords expected in these works. The slow middle section expands on various gestures in the theme while rising to a grandiose fever pitch of emotion; Rimsky-Korsakov also borrows Liszt's use of solo instruments from the orchestra, with the piano acting as accompanist. A final Allegro con fuoco section, introduced by abrupt fanfares in the brass and chords tolling like bells in the piano, uses a slightly modified version of the original theme to drive the music quickly to a grand conclusion.
(AllMusic)
🙂🥰
A lot of virtuosic parallel runs and octaves, like Anton Rubinstein
Despite rimsky korsakov primarily writing for orchestra, he wrote some great stuff for this concerto. Of course the orchestration is brilliant as always.
The melody C# e d# c# g# is a little bit reminds Paganini 24 ))))
He wrote a piano concerto??!! And it's so short
Chad Weirick -- Exactly! I mean, between all that Composing, Orchestrating and Hyphenating his name...WHERE DID HE FIND THE TIME? Greetings from Acapulco!
@@steveegallo3384 lol! Have fun down there..hi from Boston:)
@@chadweirick67 -- OMy...BOSTON! I remember spending 2 weeks at The Copley Plaza while my Québécoise girlfriend danced at Matthews New Hampshire, just across the border...so as not to offend Cardinal Bernard F. Law!
"He wrote a piano concerto??!!"
This is also my exact reaction when I first found out about this piece xD
Not bad i gotta say
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Pretty weak music unfortunately… The performance is perfect and the recording is great too. ( except of the covered orchestra through the soloists octaves close to the end) ) . OK to listen once or twice, but there are many more interesting (but also less known) piano concertos from Russia. Glazunov, Lyapunov, Arenski, Medtner, even. Anton Rubinstein … and the list can be extended.
why compare ? this RK concerto is very beautiful, so are the others