One of the greatest piano concertos of all time (in my opinion!) 28:27 onwards never fails to send shivers down my spine. Utterly exquisite music! Love the analysis btw.
It's so wonderful to find more and more people appreciating Medtner these days. He's probably my favourite composer. This concerto is definitely up with the best of his works. It's unbelievably fun to play - this is on my bucket list for performance with an orchestra! Maybe someday I'll find the opportunity.
It really is one of my favorites, but I think I like his PC3 even more! As for PC1, I still need more listens to grasp the musical narrative (Medtner himself said that the themes in his concertos resemble characters in a drama). I have also thought about playing portions of this piece, although I have no orchestra at my disposal. How hard would you say is this concerto?
@@alesa351 I don't have easy access to an orchestra either, but I'm trying to convince my piano teacher that it's prefect for a competition I'm entering. She wants me to pick from Grieg, Schumann or Rachmaninoff. I'd say this is pretty challenging, as a pianist, but since it's so rarely played I don't think it's as appreciated.
@@ChaseEverettOfficial did you do the competition? Schumann piano concerto is such an amazingly glorious piece but Rachmaninov over this? That's twice as difficult. And because this is lesser known, it surprises people
@@anotherdepressedmusician No, I didn't do the competition. I'm trying to hard to juggle high school requirements and music. I still pick away at this in my few free moments.
the counterpoint in the first variation is ridiculous! thanks for the work you put in to make this, I've been listening to this concerto for years and noticed many new things :)
At 13:00 there is also the cross motif from theme B1 appearing in the cellos and bass voice of the piano, integrated on the overall A1 line. Such insanely rich polyphony, right?!
I wanted to upload similar videos for other pieces with amazing performances from Hyperion's romantic piano concerto collection, but unfortunately RU-vid has blocked them due to copyright :/ But I might do Medtner's third concerto with Tozer's rendition next
Alensa , what a pity! Perhaps it’s still possible to download with someone else’s performance? After all, this one was permitted :-) I don’t know the rules of RU-vid, sorry if my question is naïve... Meanwhile, I have subscribed to your channel in anticipation. Thank you, very valuable work!
@@alesa351 Hyperion will hunt you down mercilessly, but you should be fine using Tozer's recordings of all three, which have already been posted on youtube, as well as Sudbin, Berezovsky and (maybe) Demidenko.
The conductor is Alexander Dmitriev, here is a link to the full LP: www.discogs.com/de/Balakirev-Medtner-Igor-ZhukovUSSR-TV-And-Radio-Large-Symphony-Orchestra-Alexander-Dmitriev-Balakirev/release/8466141
2nd mov Inderludium 9:06 Mostly X and Y Var1 11:56 Mostly A1 and A2 Var2 13:57 Mostly A2 Var3 14:58 Mostly B1 and AB Var4 16:36 Mostly A2 and B1 Var5 18:22 Mostly B1 and B2 Retransition 21:27 A3 and a bit of everything near the end
