This colossus of the piano repertoire has topped our annual Classic FM Hall of Fame – voted by you, the listeners – a huge eight times since the chart first started in 1996. 5  in 1809, while Vienna was under invasion from Napoleon’s forces for the second time. A review of the time called the work ‘singular, artistic and complex’ and apart from being utterly gorgeous, this concerto was also revolutionary – in that the soloist opens the whole concerto. 21 in C major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 9. 20, K 466, was his first concerto in a minor key, and it’s dark and stormy nature contrasts the light and sunny feeling of concerto no.21. Here’s the whole thing in all its glory: Beethoven’s sublime Fourth Piano Concerto was premiered at a historic concert on 22nd December 1808 as part of a programme which also included the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies as well as the Choral Fantasy. Nobody twinkles in quite the same way as Camille Saint-Saëns. This is why we have drawn up a non-exhaustive list of concerto movements in order to guide you in this choice, whether you are an amateur pianist or a teacher wishing to tackle a concerto with one of your pupils. Next comes a debonair scherzo and an irrepressible tarantella finale. From the exquisite chamber concertos of Haydn to the monumental works by Tchaikovsky and Beethoven – almost described as piano symphonies – these are the 20 concertos you need to listen to right now, as chosen by Classic FM presenters. Required fields are marked *. Discover releases, reviews, track listings, recommendations, and more about Perahia*, Neville Marriner*, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mendelssohn* - Piano Concertos (No. It betrays no hint of the composer’s troubled exit from wartime Hungary and the struggles of his life in exile in the US. Nevertheless, don’t miss Ravel’s other concerto, for left hand only, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in World War I. Listen to those thundering chords and weep. Watch Krystian Zimerman performing Beethoven’s piano concertos on DG Stage “Great playing by a great pianist.” – The Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010. There is a healthy number of of them, all breathtakingly beautiful; among them, the D minor concerto edges ahead for its brilliant, toccata-like writing, its ebullient rhythms and its poised, meditative slow movement. “I shall seize fate by the throat,” he once wrote to his childhood friend Franz Wegeler. Listen to Hummel: Piano Concertos Nos. Lesen Sie Rezensionen und Empfehlungen und informieren Sie sich über Tracklisten, beteiligte Personen und Weiteres. The concerto is collegial, serene, lively, even Mozartian in its sense of proportion and balance. 1, D Minor 5 Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings 6 Piano Concerto No. It opens, sure enough, with a solo piano cadenza that is not many miles away from the style of a baroque organ improvisation. 4, G Major, Op. Few succeed. His Piano Concerto No.2, one of the greatest piano concertos, was written (like Grieg’s) in 1868 and was once described as a progression “from Bach to Offenbach”. Bad performances sometimes convey it that way, but frankly they are wrong; if you hear Rachmaninov’s own recording, the piece comes over as cool and controlled, containing dignity, valour, passion and poetry in equal measures. It was written in 1868 when the composer was just 24 and opens with a dramatic timpani roll followed by one of the most famous flourishes in classical music. 1. 2 in B flat major / Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. It’s not called a concerto, but Olivier Messiaen’s gargantuan ten-movement symphony to love, sex, God and the universe features a solo piano part that could defeat any concerto on home turf. Gentle Piano Concertos By Spotify. The French composer Francis Poulenc said of this concerto “You will see for yourself what an enormous step forward it is from my previous work and that I am really entering my great period.” Not one for modesty, but to be fair, this concerto is infectiously wonderful. 1, 2 and 3: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands by Sergei Rachmaninoff Bücher gebraucht und günstig kaufen. The slow movement, in which the piano meets the orchestra’s aggressive outbursts with tranquil reflection, has been likened – supposedly by Franz Liszt – to Orpheus taming the wild beasts. Murray Perahia (piano) English Chamber Orchestra (1975-1988) Sony 82876 872302 (12 CDs) For exquisite keyboard command, no one quite matches Murray Perahia. First written in 1795 and revised in 1800, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. His 20th concerto, far from being inane, is one of the composer’s most beautiful works. Composed within just one month in early 1785, these two concertos are among the most popular of all of Mozart’s piano concertos. 2 in B flat major. Aled Jones Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto is one of the most technically difficult concertos ever written (which is quite something). Confusingly. There is something ineffable about Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. ‘Spirits Having Flown’: How The Bee Gees Continued To Soar Up The Charts, Song And Dance Man: Bobby Freeman, ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ Originator, The Godfathers Of British Blues: Cyril Davies And Alexis Korner, ‘Lōc-ed After Dark’: Shining A New Light On Tone Lōc’s Golden Age Classic, “Nu-Folk”: How Britain’s Folk-Rock Revival Took Over The World, Watch Eminem Get In The Ring In New Video For ‘Higher’, The Roots Announce ‘Do You Want More?!!!?? My one rule is to include only one concerto by each composer, but this does, naturally, give you the chance to explore the competition from their other works too. It was profoundly affected by the fate of Robert Schumann. This was Beethoven’s fifth and final concerto and it was premiered in 1812 and apparently earned its nickname when one of Napoleon’s officers, stationed at Vienna at the time, called it ‘an emperor of a concerto’. Explore our selection of the best piano concertos featuring masterpieces by composers including Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart and Rachmaninov. So we’re including it in our list. 20 and 23 by Howard Shelley & London Mozart Players on Apple Music. It even includes a jokey reference to his son’s piano practise – listen out for the scales in the final movement at around 13.40. pointed out many places where it would have to be completely revised and said that if I reworked the concerto according to his demands, then he would do me the honour of playing my thing at his concert. This is arguably the greatest work for piano and orchestra ever written – it’s nicknamed the Emperor for goodness’ sake. Rondo: Allegro moderato" and more. Watch Leif Ove Andsnes' guide to Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. Werbefrei streamen oder als CD und MP3 kaufen bei Amazon.de. Three Piano Concertos - Nos. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Piano Concerto No. Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. An attention-grabbing opening; a big tune in the finale that rises to ultimate prominence; you found them here in Bergen first. 1, 2 and 3: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands im Zustand Gebraucht kaufen. ISBN: 9781423489160. 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In no particular order, these are the 20 piano concertos we think you need to listen to right now – or better still, go and hear performed live. The first public performance of the concerto, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Friedrich Schneider as soloist in November 1811, made a powerful impression and the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung reported, “It is without doubt one of the most original, imaginative and effective, but also one of the most difficult of all existing concertos.” Beethoven’s final piano concerto was not a regretful farewell from one whose legendary abilities at the instrument were foundering on the rocks of his deafness, but a surge of glory from a composer whose capacity for reinventing himself showed itself in every piece. 15: 1 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. – Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, op.15 – Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, op.37. Your email address will not be published. The lyricism, delicacy and balance required in Chopin’s two concertos can show a pianist at his or her finest; as in Mozart, there is nowhere to hide and any deficiency in touch or control from the soloist is instantly shown up. The result is an exquisite example of Baroque ensemble music-making. Top 10 Piano Concertos (updated 2019) Gramophone Thursday, January 24, 2019 The top 10 piano concertos – from Mozart to Rachmaninov – with highly recommended recordings. 2 In D Minor, Op. Grieg’s sole Piano Concerto (1868), one of the greatest piano concertos, made its publisher, Edition Peters, such a healthy profit that they gave its composer a holiday flat in their Leipzig premises. 4 in G major - Ludwig Van Beethoven 8. Come on, don’t be mean – this concerto is perfect. The pianist to whom it was dedicated – Josef Hofmann – never performed it in public and it was the composer himself who gave the premiere in 1909 in New York. Paganini would have been proud. “That flowing phrase!”, he said, “How I worked over it bar by bar! Mozart’s 27 piano concertos comprise the largest body of piano concertos that still colonise our concert halls, although (scandalously) a relatively small handful are regularly performed. Prokofiev had already started work on the piece, but its trajectory was transformed. The final movement’s tricky rhythms are clearly inspired by those of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto; the two works require a similar lightness, attack, clarity and exuberance. As if that was not bad enough, the manuscript was then destroyed in a fire following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Prokofiev had to reconstruct it. 1 in C major. A collection of the most beautiful and tranquil slow movements in 50 symphonic works with prominent piano parts, from 50 composers, performed by 50 distinctive pianists.. 50 songs. In no particular order, these are the 20 piano concertos we think you need to listen to right now – or better still, go and hear performed live. 23 25 / No. Sitting right at the centre of Beethoven’s series of piano concertos, the third is sort of a bridge between the classical style of the earlier two and the virtuoso Romanticism of the final two. 85: II. The composer was seriously ill with leukaemia and it killed him before he could complete the work; his friend Tibor Serly was tasked with orchestrating the final 17 bars. 5.0 Surround DTS-HD, Region Code: ABC (worldwide) Accompanying booklet 56 pages / German, English. This list looks at 10 of the greatest (with an additional bonus entry from JFrater). 1 in C Major, Op. A course of hypnotherapy with Dr Nikolai Dahl had helped to restore him to the rails and his genius flamed back in the proverbial blaze of glory. Maurice Ravel claimed that he came up with the theme for this enchanting piano concerto on a train between Oxford and London. That Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand and Béla Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto fulfilled the requirements was a given: towards the end of his life Bartók wrote his most lyrically expressive concerto while Ravel, inspired by the qualities of the left hand register, wrote a piece full of dark yearning and grotesquely fauvistic dances. Bach* - Christoph Eschenbach • Justus Frantz • Gerhard Oppitz • Helmut Schmidt • Hamburger Philharmoniker* - Klavierkonzerte = Piano Concertos = Concertos Pour Piano BWV 1060 • 1061 • 1063 • 1065 auf Discogs. ‘I shall not alter a single note,’ I answered, ‘I shall publish the work exactly as it is!’ This I did.” And we are so glad you did, Pyotr. Only two are in a minor key and while the D minor K466 is the more popular, the C minor is my personal favourite for its wide emotional range, its ceaseless stream of inspiration and its highly sophisticated writing not only for the piano but also the woodwind, which virtually become soloists in their own right, treated in the slow movement almost like an operatic ensemble. Piano Concerto No. Hold on to your hats…. As dazzlingly original as the composer’s astonishing Etudes for solo piano, with which it shares some vital qualities, it deserves to be part of every adventurous soloist’s repertoire. Although some of Prokofiev’s other piano concertos are more often performed, the Piano Concerto No. The set spans Mozart’s entire career, from the 11-year old budding composer’s so-called ‘pasticcio concertos’ (Nos 1-4) to Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat major, K595, which he gave the first performance of less than a year before his death in December 1791. 21, C Major, K. 467 4 Piano Concerto No. Erfahren Sie mehr über Veröffentlichungen von J.S. Allegro 08:53 ISBN-10: 1423489160 Of course Mozart’s were generally smaller and, it would be fair to say, slighter works – in fact Mozart said of three of his piano concertos “In order to win applause one must write stuff which is so inane that a coachman could sing it”. In fact, he was aiming for a light-hearted piece “in the spirit of Mozart and Saint-Saëns”. 4 Schoenberg Concerto Liebermann Concerto No.2 Liebermann Piano Concerto No.1 Vaughan-Williams Concerto Liszt Totentanz Bortkiewicz Concerto No.1 Moszkowski Piano Concerto No.2 Very Difficult Tchaikovsky Concerto No.2 Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto Ravel Concerto in G Writing in 1929-31, Ravel was still relishing his recent trip to New York, during which his friend George Gershwin had taken him to the jazz clubs on Harlem; the impact is palpable. Ok, so this wasn’t technically written as a piano concerto, but it’s a piece for solo piano and orchestra and it is super epic. Medtner Concerto No.2 Bliss Piano Concerto Brahms Concerto No.1 Rachmaninov Concerto No. Another war-horse of the piano concerto repertoire from a Romantic great. Also hear Brahms’s vast, great-hearted and utterly different Piano Concerto No. No. !’ 25th Anniversary Deluxe Vinyl Release, The Kinks Announce Exclusive Livestream Event, ‘The Moneygoround’, Elvis Costello, Sting Fight To Save New York’s Birdland, Listen To The Band’s Previously-Unreleased Live Performance Of ‘Time To Kill’. Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto recorded by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. 1, BWV 1052 2 No. Nevertheless, this music is not just about pianistic proficiency: it’s hard to find any other romantic concertos that contain such utterly genuine, guileless, enchanting, youthful poetry (Chopin was barely 20 at the time). That extends to the orchestration, which includes triple woodwind and a large percussion section. The D minor concerto’s slow movement has been shown to evoke the words “Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini”, suggesting that the work, completed in 1858, is Brahms’s personal Requiem for his mentor. I had listened to Hough playing on this piano, Brahms' Final Piano Pieces in an exemplary rendition but on that occasion the sound required was piano or pianissimo. A piano concerto is a composition in which a solo piano (or harpsichord) is accompanied by a large ensemble of other instruments (usually a full orchestra but not always). Mozart’s utterly delightful Piano Concerto No.21 was written in 1785. Oh, how beautiful it is to live – to live a thousand times.” Perhaps to write joyfully despite his suffering was his ultimate means of defiance. Complete your Perahia*, Neville Marriner*, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mendelssohn* collection. This is rather like trying to choose the top ten best piano concertos from a repertoire so rich that it could keep us happy listening to nothing else for the rest of the year. 73, are on the slow side, but what this does is open up room for a striking amount of well-considered detail. It was written as part of the soundtrack for the film The Unforgettable Year 1919, but ironically no one remembers the film, which was a classic piece of Soviet propaganda. Jetzt online bestellen und gleichzeitig die Umwelt schonen. In even the four early Concertos, adapted from the music of Raupach, Honauer, Schobert and CPE Bach, … We’re heading back to the classical era for our next concerto. That theme then goes through a set of unexpected and daring modulations and variations and it makes for one of the greatest piano concerto movements ever written. Stream starts Thursday 17 December, 19:00 GMT and can be watched on demand until 2020-12-19. 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