Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor Op.30 Moderato - Allegretto quasi polacca - Allegro Sviatoslav Richter, piano Moscow Youth Orchestra Kirill Kondrashin, cond. Recorded Moscow, February 17, 1950
This concerto has a special place in my and not for its technical virtues. I uses way too many sequences and just sheer repitition and not enough through composed music. But for all its weaknesses it is charming and engaging. The force of his personality shines through. Here we see intangibles making the piece.
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 Try some from Schwarwenka, Thalberg, Moszkowski, MacDowell, Kalkbrenner and Wiklund. I'd say some of their concertos are masterpieces.
@@thomask.2726 I like these concertos as well but these aren't the best ever written. This title probably goes to Rachmaninoff and maybe Beethoven. But you named great underrated concertos.
I like the op[ening 2 minutes or so but then it becomes a bit too referential to the Listz Piano concertos - just with some more novel orchestration. Some of the comments are overly harsh. I think this deserves to be heard - maybe not a ton but I am unsure about it being kept on the shelf. I find it informative as how difficult it was for composers to write a piano concerto under the shadow of Listz and Brahms.
Основной темой данного концерта является протяжная рекрутская хоровая песня "Собирайтесь-ка, братцы-ребятушки", взятая Римским-Корсаковым из сборника русских народных песен Балакирева.
Amazing ideas but suffers from a rather unconvincing piano writing and a weird dynamic between the orchestra and the soloist. Most of the time, the piano feels more like a textural background for the orchestra
Very wayward and rather boring a performance from the great and only Richter; one gets the impression that Richter was having an off-day and didn't care for any bravura passages, upon which this Concerto makes its forte...Usually Richter surpasses other renditions but his text-book "Brendel" approach may only appeal to those wanting Mozartian perfection.
It's the first time I hear this piece, and I have to say it's a bit disappointing. The whole movement is based on a single motif, repeated over and over again ad nauseam. And the piano part is 98% arpeggios and runs, with hardly any melodic content - a terrible part, as a matter of fact. Dislike.
