Glazunov - Piano Concerto no.1 (Richter) 

What a majestic and charming performance.!

Wow. Never knew that Glazunov composed a stunning work like this. Thanks for this!

I'm really sad that i never listened to this masterpiece before. Heaven......

Glazunow is almost forgotten nowadays. The only piece a bit known is his concerto for violin in A minor. here, we have his first concerto for piano. It is a lyrical piece, with beautiful themes, and ingenious developments. As always for the istrument writing of Glazunow, it is very well written for the piano. The orchetra is not neglected, and is handled with the sense of colour of Glazunov. In short, a concerto that would deserve to be more often interpretated instead of the multiple reptitons of the 1st of Tchakovski or the 2nd of Rachmaninov.

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To me, the brilliance of this piece happens at about 2:18, when he goes when he starts with an F octave and proceeds to resolve it in the last measure of the page showing, with a C octave. This totally caught me off guard. I was expecting an F sharp to be resolved with a G octave. Now most people would not even notice such a minor thing as that, but if you play it the way I've noted, you'll realized that most other composers would've taken the easy route, as I would have, and not even thought of the way Glasunov did. That to me shows a creative mind. But, all in all, I'd much rather listen to Rachmaninoff for the totality of his genius.

Браво гениально сыграл

So marvelous..the great Richter ~

A gorgeous surprise, thank you for post it!

Безупречное исполнение. Сыграно и эмоционально, - местами даже "взахлёб", - и точно. Это подарок и автору, и слушателям.

Splendid

Incredible

Thank You!!...

BELO CONCERTO ROMÂNTICO. EXCELENTE INTERPRETAÇÃO, PORÉM A SONORIDADE É PRECÁRIA.

Astounding

If the orchestra is Leningrad Philharmonic, then the conductor is Karl Eliasberg. The more popular recording (1952 as well) is recorded with Moscow Youth Orchestra conducted by Kondrashin.

I like the first movement a lot!

Sounds like it was recorded from the ship-to-shore on the Titanic.

The lovely 2nd Subject seems related to Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony (slow movement)

It might be just an odd similarity, but the theme of the first movement sounds too much like Gounod's "Poison Aria" from "Romeo and Juliet" (from the words "verse moi-meme ce breuvage")

Everything of his stunning compositions is in my classical music archive ‼👏

I wonder why these concertos are practically unknown, soloists are always obliged to play the traditional ones, there should be some kind of renewal in programmings but Europe seems to have stuck in the traditional concertos for piano and orchestra. Listening to them one and again is becoming a bit tiresome, although they are very good, but there are many others that pianists never play which are also quite good. There are many other composers in music history whose works are never played !!!!!!

Who's conducting?

While listening this piece , there is some moment I felt the music is composed by Rachmaninoff …

5:13～5:15 ???

Нежняк такой, лирика.

Nobody seems to remember how Glazunov was drunk conducting the premiere of Rachmaninov's first symphony and how the performance was nearly disastrous that it destroyed Rachmaninov's early career as a composer. Nevertheless, Glazunov was an outstanding composer and obviously he is way older, and it's surprising that this concerto was composed so late in his life.

I hear a lot of Rachmaninoff

Some people have commented about the poor quality of the recording. I echo that sentiment but must add that the piano is grossly out of tune as well! Why put the time into such a lovely performance and not take the time to have the piano tuned!? I really enjoy the piece itself, however.

This concerto sounds like rachmaninoffs second symphony, some of the motifs in the second symphony were even taken from here

9 people have absolutely no taste.

Even after repeated hearings I can only say that this concerto has nowhere near the charm of his 2nd one - perhaps a waste of the great Richter's time and effort...

Is anything as glorious as his violin concerto - this sounds like the rhetoric of standard post-romantic concerto. Richter recorded or played this publicly several times -learned all of this and the orchestra parts as any conscientious pianist does . Did Godowsky ever play it in public ? Why is all I can ask .I'd like to know how many other pianists up until the 1950's ever bothered with it. as a kid I thought the Rubinstein no.4 was a fantastic musicalpiece. Simple less trying to be profound fermenting melodies a la Liszt. but hearing Hofmann in anything can make interest out of anything. It does sound natural but uninspired mostly like paint by the numbers . Thankyou for downloading this score . Maybe over time I will come back to this period in music prefer Boulez et. al. Too grand is romantic period mostly. Brahms , Franck few others did it best .

This is fine concerto but the piano sounds really crappy. What a pity!