Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński - Piano Concerto in A-flat major, Op.2 (1824) 

Great Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński and Amazing Emilian Madey❤❤

The history of Polish composers seems to be fabulous. I admire this concerto enormously.

Absolutely stellar, uplifting my spirit as we speak. Just like with anything in life, the best stuff, the gems, the treasures are hidden, they are NOT in plain sight. You have to go and dig them out. THANK YOU, all of you for sharing in this blessing together. Gott beschütze euch!

This is a delightful piece. The reason that RU-vid is so great is that, before it existed, it would have been very unlikely that I would have encountered the music of Dobrzynski.

I have masters degree in music art, piano as specialty achieved in Poland. Never heard this. Nobody told me about this... Can't figure out why this music is not promoted. That is outstanding piece of concerto.

Thanks to KuhlauDilfeng2 we can listen to wonderful piano concertos which are practically unlknown, the usual piano concertos we hear all the time are very nice, but we are a bit fed up with them, and I have come to hate some of them due to their constant playing, PLEASE CHANGE REPERTOIRES, INTERPERSING TRADITIONAL PIANO CONCERTOS WITH WORKS BY OTHER COMPOSERS LIKE THIS ONE !!!!!!! WE WILL ALL BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hadn't even heard of Dobrzyński. Another gem!

This is astounding. I never heard of this remarkable composer and to read he was 17 when he wrote this is unreal. What teenager today writes music of this type? Wonderful.

Although I`ve never heard Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński , I`m quite sure that Piano Concerto in A-flat major, Op.2 is an unknown masterpiece which is deserved to be heard by all music lovers in present times.

Jedes Mal, wenn ich dieses Stück von Dobrzynski höre, fühle ich mich besser. VIELEN DANK ~~!

Wow. Especially 'wow' because I'd never heard of this before - and I studied piano many years. The finale is especially peppy.

4 years ago I called it lovely. Today, I hear so much more . . . and call it significantly magnificent . . . and . . . lovely. Thank you !

Why, why WHY does this happen in music??The masters that no one knows about. It's grossly unfair. I'm so grateful for finding this. It's magnificent.

When I saw this and clicked on this I didn't think of much, but as soon as the piano came in I had to finish to concerto. How does my generation say again: This concerto is lit af 🔥🔥🔥

This magnificent Piano Concerto ranks as high as any of Beethoven's, in my opinion. What an amazing composer!

Davvero incredibile per un diciassettenne comporre un simile capolavoro. E ancora più incredibile che sia sconosciuto.

This is really first rate music from a country that for two centuries was divided geographically but united in culture and spirit.

This concerto is beautiful especially the second movement. Thanks to RU-vid and only RU-vid I have become aware of hundreds of composers, many of them great, not visible anywhere else. Just piano concertos from the Romantic period I have listened to 50!! A great pity that the commercial labels totally ignore these composers.

an underrated Polish composer. He was a friend of F. Chopin. It's immediately clear how valuable it is to have such a talented acquaintance because it elevates the music.

This is another in a long line of magnificent piano concertos little known to us. Those who appreciate beautiful music owe a debt of gratitude to KuhlauDilfeng2, pomip1010, and all others who have taken it upon themselves to put on RU-vid such priceless gems, thus rescuing these pieces from oblivion. Furthermore, I must mention that I am in total agreement with the observation made by José Alexandre. For far too long the classical music labels have ignored composers every bit as accomplished as the tried and true war-horses. By so doing, these labels fail to increase the listening audience for Western classical music, treating this genre as if it was a museum piece. ¡Arriba con esa buena música que ha sido ignorada!

For me, this composer , was saved from oblivion . . . Lovely and majestic, magnificent and a beautiful work! by Ignacy F. Dobrzynski (sounds like: Dobrin-je-ski, ? . . . I think. . .) Thank you whoever saved this great man from 200 years of oblivion and international renown ! Poland is such a great country which has bred and breeds amazingly both holy and talented and dedicated- to- the- good . . . type of humanity !

24:40 is one of those moments where you are just like "how the hell is this concerto not more well known!?" pure beauty, this part at 24:40 is what it's like to fall in love.

How isn't this more popular, this is outstanding, defiantly in top 10 concertos of all time.

Sheer delight from start to finish

How have I gone my whole life without knowing this work of mastery or composer even existed? I literally searched “rare classical music” hoping to find something other than the moonlight sonata. Such a shame that there is so much talent out there that gets overlooked. Thanks for the upload!

What a nice composer to discover 👌🏼

Excellent.

This is a lovely, lovely concerto, and I, too, had never heard of Dobrzynksi... Yes, indeed, this is most reminiscent of Chopin, with the episodic declamatory florid passages and similar sequenced patterns Chopin is so well known for, such as those already mentioned between 15:15 and 15:30 in the first movement. And, yes, the third movement is what appears to be in a Krakowiak style, or Polish polka of sorts. I probably love the first and third movements the most, maybe faulting my love for Chopin. Can't wait to hear Dobrzynski's second symphony. The exceptional 45 year old Polish pianist, Emilian Madey, has studied at the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, won numerous competitions, and has had a significant presence in Vilnius, Lithuania, and South Korea, so he is not unknown to the rest of the world, only the rest of us... Thank you for the upload of this very lovely concerto.

Marvelous!

Thank you very much for this sharing ! I didn't know this composer. Beautiful music !

The picture: The talisman by Henryk Siemiradzki

To think this incredible piece of music is almost 200 years old blows my mind Simply beautiful 🎼🎼

Enchanting

Painting: Henryk Siemiradzki - Talisman (c. 1880).

Somebody asked my why I love classical music and I replied to him: the beauty is what attracts me and where beauty is present God is present and all the people of the Universe who share beauty? Isn't it so simple?

Another marvellous composer ( and there were so, so many) who never really managed to get out of the shadow of the greatest composers.

This concerto is just a lot of fun. I love it. It is like you have heard it 100 times, except that you haven't. Recently I have been listening to a whole lot of romantic era piano concerto's on RU-vid and this is my favorite so far.

I think I listen to this concerto at least 5 times week since I discovered it, it's just perfect to my ears

One of the best pieces of music in the last 200 years or so.

Thank you for posting good friend. You are providing a great service to all music lovers. I always get saddened by the short life span of these wonderful composers.

Incredible wonderful music. I could hear it again and again....

What a brilliant piece ! Also the pianist deserves a big compliment I feel !

This is a beautiful concerto. You Tube shows us that there is so much delightful piano music from the Romantic Period that we just haven't previously heard of. I hope that we will start seeing more of them in the concert repertoire.

Mendellsohn also wrote his Octet in E-flat, Opus 20, when he was 17. Damn, how could such youngsters compose such gorgeous music! Simply awesome!

Thanks for posting this unknown gem from Poland.

Bravo! So beautiful.

Beautiful, living, dancing tunes. I am glad I heard this concerto.

I'd like to meet 17 year old Dobrzynski and ask him how this is possible. Also to compose another piano concerto in his last 43 years, since he clearly has the capacity to create beauty. This has my vote for greatest concerto for it's raw ability to bring me to the place of pure romanticism. Consider this my duty as a 19 year old to promote this concerto to all who take interest in classical music till my end. Want desperately to see this played in a hall someday.

Chopi having left Poland, Dobrzynski is the main romantic Polish pianist and composer. His work is underrated. It includes among others one opera, two symphonies, and this concerto for piano. Dobrzynski was rather young when he composed this long concerto: it is his opus 2. The role of the orchestra is more important than in Chopin's concerti, in spite of the paramount role of the soloist. This concerto is a very nice composition.

Tremendous performance! The last half minute caught me by surprise and would have had me cheering, in the concert hall!

I fully share the comments of all my "music listening" colleagues. I just cannot prevent from being frustrated for music seals like DGG, Decca, Philiops, etc not editing and revealing such high quality composers...The reason is obvious - for almost 30 years the circle for new LPs, CDs was basically the B-M-B-S-B-M circle (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler) added of about 20 or so additional names - Chopin, Bruckner, Sibelius, Vivaldi, Debussy, Wagner usw. And that was it . It took a long time to show how brilliant a great lot of ignored composers were...Thank you for this new revelation.

Only got introduced to this composer by Classic FM...thanks so much. Once the programme finished, I had to log on to You Tube to continue listening. Quite, quite beautiful.

Impressive music, !! great concerto, Great composer which I didn't known ! Thank you for sharing ! !

This is fast becoming my favourite piano concerto!

Magnificent piece! Such a shame it is RUINED by horrible, cheap commercials too…………:-(

Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński was a school friend of Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw, in the class of Józef Elsner.

Hooley Dooley what a fabulous concerto this is to sit and enjoy. So light and full of joy. That second movement just blew me away. I am gobsmacked that this piece of music has never been aired on radio or in any of the big piano concerts. Australia is having the Sydney International Piano Competition later this year and I guess it will be the usual piano works by Chopin Beethoven, Mozart,Brahms Liszt etc. It would be an incredible stroke of luck if any of the contestants played this concerto or the one by Friedrick Kalkbrenner . To good to not play in these piano competitions.

One of my favorite piano concertos!!!

Compositeur incontestablement très inspiré . Il a eu la " malchance " de naître à l'époque de musiciens encore plus grands que lui , quoique cette appréciation soit un peu relative ! Chopin, Liszt et bien d'autres lui ont fait de l'ombre, c'est sûr, mais il ne démérite pas pour autant ! Bravo aux artistes qui le font revivre !!

17 anni ? Concerto di pregevole fattura per un giovanissimo. Bravissimo. Gravissimo che i posteri non ne abbiamo riconosciuto il giusto merito e lasciato caduto nell'oblio.

What a breathtaking second movement. I'm not sure I can get any more work finished today, because I'm floating.

What a charming concerto! The joy of youth in every phrase, totally lifts your feet off the ground. Thank you, KuhlauDilfeng2.

Изумительная музыка раннего романтизма. Ещё нет великих Листа и Шопена. Почему не исполняется? Как жаль!

Muy fino concierto romántico.

my goodness...what a wonderful piece of music

Excelente, "GRANDE ENTRE LOS GRANDES".- Se codea de Tú a Tú con Lizst, Chopin y tantos otros.-

Non mi stancherei mai di ascoltarlo, è bellissimo.

What I love about the wonderful buffet of music that you offer. It's just so great to "sample" and often find gems like this. (Even if it's not entirely original! Thanks so much!)

Astonishing, relaxing and a very good performance, too!

Marvellous work by a 17 year old !

No conocía este concierto. Me agrada grandemente. Considero que puede ser una obra excelente para marcar un punto de partida en la carrera de un joven pianista.

A truly beautiful and soothing piece

Mi piace questo nuovo Autore per me,per come scandisce le sue note aggraziate e gentili per tessere arie e atmosfere di grande levigatezza sonora.

Sono emozionata: musica stupenda. Grazie !

A wonderful concerto among many outside the mainstream that I have recently discovered on RU-vid. Finds like this are testimony to the amazing, nearly endless variety of music. To quote my mother, who was a fine pianist and (unlike me) understood musical structure and theory very well, but still marveled at the breadth and scope of musical invention, "How can there be so much music when there are only eight notes?"

He helped chopin write his piano concertos, you can hear resembelance, beautiful, fantastic composer!!

One of the most beautiful piano concertos I've heard. What a pleasant surprise! Thanks for the upload.

Superbe, merci !

Beautiful

So beautiful, it is sad that it isn't hear more today, should be performed more frequently.Thank you KuhlauDilfeng2

Another excellent choice, thank you. I found it to be absolutely delightful.

Quel beau concerto pour piano - un autre compositeur polonais merveilleux et rarement entendu. Parties de la troisième mouvement me rappelle de Chopin.

"La valeur n'attend point le nombre des années" P. Corneille. En voici la preuve incontestable... 👏🎶💓🎶✨

No conocía a este compositor. Lo añado a mis preferidos

Very well composed

Remarkable on it's own. One can hear that Chopin was influenced greatly by this talented young man at least in his concerto forms. Wonderful to hear this music.

heureusement qu'il y a youtube pour découvrir de telles oeuvres formidables afin de ne pas mourir idiot

A very friendly music, as anohers said, influence of Mozart and Mendelssohn is present, but, there is necessary a quote of talent to do a composition so so emotional, specially the last movement that is fastand needly a great digitation....... really I like so much

El nivel de los conciertos que usted pone aqui.Es realmente increible.Muchas gracias.

Thanks for sharing a "treasure trove" .

Thank you so much it’s like salve for a wounded soul. Very inspirational. 👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹

magnifique interpretation excellent pianiste tres bonne orchestre merci .

found treasure👏

WIKIPEDIA Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (15 February 1807 - 9 October 1867) was a Polish pianist and composer. He was the son of Ignacy Dobrzyński, the brother of Edward Dobrzyński, and the father of Bronisław Dobrzyński. Dobrzyński was born on former Polish territory in Romanów, in Volhynia, Russian Empire, now Romaniv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine (Ukr. Романів), known from 1933 to 2003 as Dzerzhynsk (Rus. Дзержинськ, Pol. Dzierżyńsk). He attended a Jesuit school in Romanów, then continued his education at Vinnitsa, where he graduated from the Gimnazjum Podolskie (Podole Gymnasium). He first studied music with his father Ignacy, a violinist, composer and music director. Beginning in 1825 he studied in Warsaw with Józef Elsner, at first privately, then in 1826-28 at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he was a classmate of Frédéric Chopin. In 1835, he won second prize in a composition competition for his Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 15. This symphony was later called "Symphony in the Characteristic Spirit of Polish Music" and movements were conducted by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1845 Dobrzyński toured Germany as a soloist and also conducted operas and concerts. In 1857 he founded "Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński's Polish Orchestra" (Orkiestra Polska Ignacego Feliksa Dobrzyńskiego), which comprised leading members of the orchestra of Warsaw's Grand Theatre. In 1858-60 he participated in a committee established to found a Music Institute. He also became a member of the Lwów Music Society. He died in Warsaw on 9 October 1867, at the age of 60.

Thank you for sharing this Piano Concerto with us. It is a lovely piece of music and once again these lesser known composers are easy to enjoy.

Excelente concierto. No tiene nada que envidiar a los mejores conciertos para piano de la época del romanticismo de la música.

Bravo brilliance concerto

Lovely music... what fresh discoveries!.... Thanks KuhlauDilfeng2

What is fantastic is that Beethoven is still alive in 1824. Hummel, Ries, Moscheles, Field are still in their best years...

Very nice! Thank you for sharing this gem!