What a very strange performance, “complete” with missing orchestral moments, recomposing and editorializing. There’s a whole 2 pages completely ignored and skipped right over, I don’t understand. 👎🏼
The piano technique is very high. What annoys me is that the right hand seems to dominate all the time, to the detriment of the left. The last movement seems fast just for the sake of being fast and loses some of its jauntiness and humour. The orchestra sounds rushed sometimes.
BRAVO! Mate. Only had time today for the first movement. It’s absolutely amazing! I’m playing this next year for the finale of an arts festival. I love the piece and frankly prefer playing with piano accompaniment rather than orchestra. Both have merit but with another piano it feels so different. I promise I will finish listening to your performance later.
Komitas was an Armenian composer and one of the mosg tragic composers who died after mental illness he got after seeing the Armenian Genocide. He wrote many pieces that are very sad and beautiful and just your piece has very similarities they are both very beautiful. If you want just listen Shushiki by Komitas or Garoun a ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jHwy6_ZU4YA.html🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I wouldn't consider them cadenzas, but just normal passages which reflect Tchaikovsky's hate for the combination of orchestra and piano sound. In my opinion, they make this concerto somewhat superior than his first one, and definitely clearer.
Well, it's not as immediately appealing as the first and getting people to listen to things they aren't familiar with is a hard sell. The first movement, especially, is demanding on the listener. The third movement is a lot of fun and people are missing out. Shura Cherkassky used to tour with this concerto and had a lot of success with it, but now he's dead. (He made a great recording of this with Richard Kraus that's worth checking out). I'm not sure it's better or worse than the first concerto, but I think the musical ideas are less syrupy and more worked out than the first's.
@@b.m.4345 My late friend, Arnold Hartmann, said the Second piano concerto was a clunker/ The first movements has no inspired tunes; however, the cadenza is pretty dramatic.
Thank you so very, very much for attaching the score. For me, a non-musician, it adds so much to my listening pleasure by able to pick up a lot more details that normally would be completely missed by me. I have a few scores for other pieces, but have to admit that it is physically very exhausting to listen and read simultaneously.
Pletnev is a phenomenal pianist! Brilliant and dazzling technique AND musicality! When I was learning this concerto, I used to listen to Igor Zhukov's rendition. He was a formidably awesome pianist as well and, unfortunately died this year in January. Both in ballet AND piano, the Russians excel magnificently, far outshining the Asians!
Not so fast! Bruce Liu just performed this to perfection. Better than those before him. He is a virtuoso with a soul. He won the 2021 Chopin Competition unanimously. Check him out…
That theme isn't derived from Totentanz. It's from the Gregorian plainchant melody _Dies_ _Irae_ . Listz's Totentanz was based off this theme and Rachmaninoff frequently used it in several of his compositions.
