Adolf Wiklund - Piano Concerto No.1 in E-minor, Op.10 (1907) 

Adolf Wiklund (né le 5 juin 1879 à Långserud dans le comté de Värmland - mort le 2 avril 1950 à Stockholm) est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre suédois. Biographie Adolf Wiklund était un compositeur suédois dans le style romantique du xxe siècle. Si ses compositions sont populaires en Suède et font partie du patrimoine, notamment ses trois pièces pour piano et orchestre, compte tenu de plus de soixante-dix œuvres diverses, elles sont moins connues au niveau international. Sa musique suave, mélodieuse s'apparente et rappelle celle de Sergueï Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) dans la structure avec des thèmes nordiques se rapprochant de Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Passionné pour la musique, à douze ans Adolf Wiklund s'initie au piano et à la composition, stimulé par les encouragements de son frère aîné Victor. Il remporta un franc succès avec sa Romance pour violon et piano. Comme son père, il était organiste et fut en 1901 professeur de musique à Stockholm avant de se consacrer plus tard à la direction d'orchestre à l'Opéra Royal de Suède vers 1923. Auparavant, il avait excellé en tant que soliste (piano) où il put se faire remarquer dans ses débuts, interprétant également à l'époque son premier opus : Morceau de Concert pour piano et orchestre en ut majeur. Il le joua grâce au concours de son professeur de piano, Richard Andersson (ancien élève de Clara Schumann), avec l'actuel Orchestre philharmonique royal de Stockholm (antérieurement l'orchestre du Konsertföreningen), sous la baguette de Tor Aulin (1866-1914) violoniste, chef d'orchestre et compositeur suédois.

Oh my goodness this is glorious! Why doesn’t anyone play this? This is an amazing concerto!

I find that we are so often told 'what to like' and the public so often go along with this. This concerto is supurb yet it won't be played because concert premoters won't take the risk with anything 'different'. It's the same with the acredited 'greats', Antonin Dvorak is a case in point, he wrote ten operas yet the only one we are ever told to hear is Rusalka. Dvorak himself thought Dimitrij was his best opera and one of the best things he'd ever written, he was right. Supurb as it is this concerto will be left on the shelf with many many other wonderful pieces, and that is one of the most anoying things in all music.

Thank you RU-vid you are opening our eyes to many lost composers. It is wonderful. I only hope that youtube will never charge a fee for listening to these treasures.

First heard this piece because of this upload in 2015. Kept returning every since...

Adolf Wiklund is a hidden gem. His dreamy compositions evoke the wonderland in my childhood imagination...

I dream of a world where I can go to a concert at the Philharmonic and listen to Delius and Wiklund in the same night! Honestly, I adore Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky but I am SICK of hearing only them all the time.

A very romantic concerto for the year 1907. Hints of Rachmoninoff, Paderweski and early Prokofiev. Great performance.

I feel privileged to be able to be one of the very few people to have listened to this performance. thank you kindly!

A criminally under-appreciated piece.

A big, big thank you to the various RU-vid up-loaders of all these lesser known orchestral and chamber works. Thank you. I simply cannot understand why these (recognisably melodic) works feature so little, if at all, on the international concert repertoire. Which would you prefer to pay good money to see in the Concertgebouw/Albert Hall etc? This present concerto or some torturous unemotional atonal exercise by a modern or contemporary composer?

What a beautiful romantic piano concerto! Thank you for posting this!

What a wonderful concerto, unknown from me till today! One of the best concerto for piano ever composed!

The andante is a blessed masterpiece itself. This concerto is just one of the most glorious, elegiac, tremendous piano pieces ever written. The orchestra is sublime. Oh, God, what a beauty, what a beauty!!!!!!

Зовсім невідомий автор.Чудовий твір. Велика подяка за можливість чути ці незаслуговано забуті твори.

Thank you original poster, and RU-vid, for allowing us to enjoy masterpieces I would have never been able to find myself.

This is a piece that I have listened to countless times, indeed I probably know it backwards!!. A very great concerto.

Beautiful piano concerto. It's romantic, powerful and very melodic. Thanks for posting.

Stupendo,favoloso,un gioiello di concerto di sapore ancora pienamente romantico e incredibilmente sottovalutato come il suo autore.E' colpevole come sia più criticamente conosciuto il concerto del suo connazionale Atterberg, più "progressista" , scritto 20 anni più tardi.

If you are here in 2021 you are a legend!

What an amazing hidden gem of a Concerto... if I could convince an orchestra, I’d love to play this someday!

Quietly absorbing, a surprise standout. And a fine choice of paintings to match

This is wonderful, I love it. Truly delightful and I've listened to it many times. I'm an author and this music has modulated my thoughts and accelerated creativity on numerous occasions. Adolf Wiklund was a great composer. I admire him.

Very love the theme of this concerto, especially 8:53 to 9:36

Lovely! A dense thicket of catchy and heroic themes that put one in mind of Medtner's concertos. As does the harmonic language, and overtly narrational quality. And lots, and lots the textures. Waiddaminute. Medtner's first concerto wasn't published until about, what, some time during the 1st world war, no? [looks up when Medtner published his 1st concerto] ... Nikolai Karlovich? I think we need to have a little talk!

18:35 so mysterious at the beginning and gets so powerful then! Fabulous!

De una belleza romántica y la fuerza de una tecnica admirable. Porque algunos somos tan afortunados de amar la Música celestial de este modo? Gracias desde Argentina

The whole piece is excellent, but 33:39 is just on another level

Hint to concert programmers. Schedule a big war horse to get people to buy tickets, and put one of these neglected gems on the program, as well. It could work, and it could expand our listening universe.

on ne s'en lasse pas il est magnifique ce concerto comme le n 2

I'd like to hear more about the pianist, Ingemar Edgren.

The 1st movement is super comforting

This piece is absolutely enchanting. Greta Erikson has played it to perfection.

Very nice. Definitely deserves a greater audience. Suspect Williams borrowed some of this for a Harry Potter theme or two.... Naughty Williams!

Why can't I like this more than once? It certainly deserves it. Wonderful pianist too.

there was a really good upload of this concerto on youtube, it was a different interpretation which I loved to listen to. Unfortunately it disappeared from youtube, I really wish I downloaded it while it was up.

That was great, I really enjoyed it, thank you.

Incredible ALL.the colore and matizes de Johannes BBrahms ☺️☺️

Delightful!

This is great and really deserves to be well known. THanks for posting.

Magnificent! I listen to this Babylonian architecture for the umpteenth time, fascinated by stylistic eccentricities and changes of harmonies. It is a wonderful, rhythmically lively performance of colors and warmth ..

Really magical!

Beautiful. Thanks for uploading this gem. Will immediately listen #2 too. At first impression it's like Wiklund had been inspired by Brahms style bringing it into his soul and giving it his personality and touch. Formally perfect and rigorous, too.

a place to spend my quiet nights .. its where its taken me .. amazing

Pure bliss. This concerto is absolutely stunning

great concerto, I especially like the third movement

Very beautifull Danke

Gorgeous!

apres le 2 le 1 il me manquait , merci, beaux concerto

Music at its GLORY!

Beautiful

Love it.

What is the painting? It looks beautiful!

Ciertamente es un bellísimo concierto.

Disfruto mucho, obras desconocidas pero maravillosas.

Lovely.

Luscious!

Great performance ! Thanks for sharing!

Those commenting favourably on the lesser known works, should check out Robert Ward's piano concerto - the first movement is the equal of (almost) any. Why RVW's piano concerto is not better known is beyond me.

the final movement is pretty great

This is just perfect.

Thanks for posting. With such an interesting work it would have been nice to see the score. After all, you've got nothing else for us to look at.

Bravo...

Yo también me sorprendo de que música como este bello, melódico, romántico ( tardío ) concierto sea completamente desconocida ( supongo ) para la inmensa mayoría de melómanos, como es mi caso . Obras como esta están completamente excluidas de los ciclos de conciertos habituales, en favor de un repertorio clásico-romántico muy restringido, o peor, en favor de horribles y frías obras, atonales, sin sentimiento ni pasión, que no gustan a casi nadie y que muchos simulan degustar. Ni siquiera conocía el nombre del compositor. Cuál es su nacionalidad ? ( where was he from ? Which was his nationality? ) La pintura es preciosa. No entiendo casi nada de pintura, por lo que desconozco si como pintor es tan desconocido como Adolf Wiklund como compositor. He comprobado que este canal ofrece obras poco conocidas incluso de compositores bien famosos, como la también interesante sinfonía en do menor ( 1864 ) de Edward Grieg.

wonderful easily appreciated atmospheric 1st mvt rollicking 3rd movement I would pay to hear this..

Ameno! Amenoooo!

Awesome! Beautiful music.

A very beautiful concerto for piano. Together with the concerto of Atterberg, it is probably the best one of the swedish school. We should hear it from time to time in our concert halls.

Ingemar Edgren is impressive as is the piano being used. Probably a Hamburg Steinway.

Fabulous, thank you so much for uploading.👍👍👍👍🆒🆒🍾🍾🌹🎹🎼🎧

Too good not to be heard more often, thx!

Sorry if I missed it but whose beautiful painting serves as the illustration here??? Beautiful music!

I can't agree more

Character AND luciousness; reminds me of Stenhammer a little bit. And there is Impressionism in it.

Great work!

This is a lovely concerto but I have to assume that most of the 145,000 viewers are Swedish because I never heard of this fellow before today.

liked it...

II. Andante ma non troppo 14:28

r/PieceoftheDay featured this piece today, September 19th, 2021.

Se escucha el estilo de los compositores del período romántico nacionalista de principios del siglo XX. Muy bello, pero tal vez por eso no trascendieron en la historia, y fueron opacados por otros compositores como Thaikovsky o los compositores franceses.

beautiful

wiklund slowly became obscure after his death... but this video has received a lot of attention, the power of the internet! great piece, beautiful late romanticism

Curiously, the opening theme of this piece is almost identical to the first subject in Reynaldo Hahn's lovely Piano Quintet in F# minor. None the worse for that! I've been fond of this concerto for a long time. I think it's more successful than the Second, in fact.

CaludeBernard Please, who is the painter of the video ?

Ist da nicht Prokofjews 2. Konzert entstanden? Am Ende des 1. Satzes gibt es sehr ähnliche Intonationen.

Exceptional

Lovely flutes 10:12 ...

Pretty inspiring ! ...guess minute 8:30 served for Matrix and Harry Potter soundtrack composers!

Please stop uploading. I must work. Now I sit and listen fascinated to another great piece of music. This way I will never get my work done...

Hello, nice music, I didn't know about this composer. About the picture, is it an Edouard Cortes painting ?

bello concierto, gracias !

As to the painter. right click on the painting/search Google for this image Painter: Thomas Kinkade

A magical piece. I believe that if an arranger summarized this piece by removing some orchestral parts, it would be a knock-out.

Who is the painter of this beautiful winter scene?

whot this Pictures?

By whom and from where is the great painting?

27:59 31:07

shame about the snow scene- I always associated this generatioon of Swedish composers with summer

07:00 (Uso personal).

24:53