Ottorino Respighi - Piano Concerto in A minor (4 MILLION VIEWS TRIBUTE) 

Moderato: 0:19 Adagio: 6:20 Presto: 11:50

Surprisingly pianistic for something written by a violin player.

Respighi's orchestration is freaking amazing, He deserves way more attention

Many moments like 19:02 for example, really sounded like Rachmaninov his piano concerto 3 to me. But then I realised Respighi's concerto was written 5 years earlier. Awsome concerto.

This is a magnificent piano concerto which has sadly been neglected over the years. Why? I'll never know. All I know is, I just love this piece. Thank you so much for uploading this.

Only just started listening to it, I was lured by the title: piano concerto, my favourite music form! The beggining is hauntingly beautiful. There's something peculiar about this piece.

I absolutely love the way the strings build tension at 1:30 with those short 32nd note pulses!

Yet another rarely played piece. There is so much great classical music out there. Come on Classic FM, how about digging deeper.

Respighi is a genius among geniuses

This is really great, and deserves to be heard more!

I found this concerto just fantastic!!! Splendid piece of music.

What a wonderful work! Beautifully written, quite challenging. Well performed too. Thank you for posting this along with the score!

Love the begining with the different rythims, thanks for uploading,

reminds me a little bit to the Grieg's concerto

Un concerto virtuosement amusant, avec une sorte de goût de l'apparence "improvisée" et capricieuse, pas si mal organisé, avec beaucoup d'astuces apprises des grands concertos précédents le sien : Respighi comme compositeur était plein d'idées...

A wonderful work.

wonderful piece and congrarulations for the 4 millions views

So many hints of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #1 and some from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1... among others, I just love it! Marvelous work!

Thanks for uploading!

Thanks for posting this piece.

If you ever want to hear what Resphigi’s Fountains of Rome would’ve sounded like as a 20th-century piano concerto (the music is completely different...just making an inspirational association), go check out Joseph Marx’s Castelli Romani!

Loved it! I haven't heard much from this composer, other than the Fountains of Rome and the Pines of Rome. Thanks for sharing!

Meraviglioso Grazie

Wow the paragraph in the description really just tears this one to shreds, huh.

I can REALLY hear the Russian influence.

Love the Adagio Molto section.

NB. Sorry if I only posted the million views tribute just now. One word: procrastination. XD

There is so much more to this than russian, liszt and ancient music's influence, there's pure, raw, rough sensitivity, what à composer, what a performance

Marvelous!

There are so many quotes from other composers that it is absolutely incredible how he maintains his unique style! But clearly, the influence of Liszt A minor concerto is there... just that theme with the cello and the piano accompaniment is so clear. Also pretty sure that Russians took inspirations from this composition (especially for Rach second Concerto). It would be wonderful to deeply analyze this piece!

ラフマニノフのNo.2 がほぼ同じ頃の曲と思って聴くとだんだん曲調が変わってきている時代なんだと思います。 非常にわかりやすいし、口ずさめるメロディが主体な印象です。 悪くないですね。

Yes, one definitely hears the Russian in this but also, as is typical with Respighi, the colorful south and the sun..

Definitivamente l'influenza di Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov si ri riflette nella tessitura di tutta l'opera però è Ottorino Respighi e lo applaudo. Nascere a cavallo di due secoli come l'ottocento ed il novecento dev'essere stato grandioso per eruditi come Ottorino e per tanto inevitabile essere influenzati tanto intensamente per geni come Racmaninof, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov.

Oh! But this is a wonderful Piano concerto! Incredibly beautiful! It is a revive of Tchaikovsky! Do you imagine what it means to write such a masterpiece, full of melody in the 20th century?! I am more than a very devoted classical music passionate, but this time I hear Respihi's music for the first time! I am amazed! Thank you very much for uploading such great, artistic masterpieces! ,,,!!!

Will be hearing it played on Thursday night by the Cape Town Philharmonic. I was not familiar with the work, but it does seem a lot less jarring than some of Respighi's compositions (Fountains of Rome excluded). Thanks.

Very good choice for the tribute!

Schöne Konzert!!!

Very Rachmaninoff-like beginning and Brahms ❤️💚👍

6:48 and the sun shines.

wow

I don't know man, I think the through-composed nature of this piece really enhances the experience for me

çok iyi ya

Pretty rhapsodic but nicely written for the piano, and very well orchestrated. Could be nice to hear it in concert, played by a first-class pianist.

Moments of glory, yes, but the description puts it perfectly as an “incoherent, rambling” piece

Why does the title say "four million views tribute" when the counter itself only says 99k views?!

Who is the soloist?

2:41

11:50

Wow. I don't know what's wrong with my ears. At 01:20 I swear I heard a choir doubling the strings

1:08

Kind of a weird concerto...the piano part seems too be comprised of too many episodic lines.

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If after a showy piano preface a theme by orchestra does not capture you, the first movement has been lost. Sorry, but it has been decided by pianists for nearly a century.

MAKE RESPHGIE OPEN MAKE A RICE IN BRAHMS! IT IS GREAT

This is like a Chopin Concerto orchestrated really really good

This is a provincial ,trifling ,subtrire work full of tropes .It is not for even 2 bars interesting in either of its movements . Tey got Tover to record them and Scherbakov knows a lot but unlike Hofmann he can't simply phrase shape a musical dustrock and make it shine with depth or excitement. Thi is my second time listening to these and they didn't grow or reveal anything but trirenessthat were already tired when he wrote this but maybe not for a boy from the country who hadn't had a sophisticated education. Resphighi is about color and evocation .Out of 4 piano converti and 3 violin concerti

Enjoyable and well crafted but I kept hoping for those wonderful romantic melodies that are memorable.

For bach enthusiasts, i invite you to listen to original music that i have composed inspired by Bach

Probably just me, I really love the orchestration and all those parts but something about the piano part itself just doesen't do it for me. It has some really nice moments but just seems like alot of the piano lines are just a blur of notes and random ideas/motifs

8:21 11:54 (could respighi ever not write a catchy theme)

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I hear Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Grieg, Arthur Bliss...glad I stumbled upon this.

When you say its structure is rambling and incoherent, is that meant as a criticism of the concerto?

The program note in the description really doesn't do the work justice. I get that it's no Grieg or Rach 2 or Tchaik. But whoever wrote that didn't do their homework. Here's where the "issues" lie, of which there are two: First, the work is extremely motivically interwoven. The problem is not that there are too many themes and that it's incoherent and rambling, it's that Respighi conceptually wrote this to be a three-movements-in-one format, but with just as many themes as if it were in three separate movements. Each "movement" section of the work has a first theme, second theme, developments and so on. So the fact that he crammed it all into a continuous movement makes it *seem* like it's rambling and there are too many musical ideas for its own good with too little time devoted to proper development for enjoyment. It may have worked better if he did separate the sections into individual movements. Second, I blame the mixing on the recording. There are plenty of moments where I wish I could hear the orchestra playing more than the piano. Often, they will have melodies or motives that are already well-established, but get buried by the mixing of the piano into the texture. It's a good performance overall by everyone, but does little justice to anyone trying to "pick out" the themes as they fly by. The musical ideas need to be more clearly defined, and whoever conducted the rehearsal process for this recording dropped the ball imo. These criticisms aside, that doesn't mean it'a a poorly written work. Youthful? sure. Is it great? No, but it isn't horrible, either; not by a long shot.

Really forgettable but Scherbakov is a fine player!Thanks for giving us the score ! Not Wonderful to hear this again [my third visit].It will never become popular .I'm surprised at how good Resphighi's piano writing is[he obviously had Scriabin in his library. Resphigi worked in Russia for awhile . He was a professional violinist yet his 3 violin concerti rarely find players(can't be surprised they are as of no import as this is. .Scherbakov learned this and gives it what it needs but a lot of what was new in 1906 sounds childish today . MacDowell and strauss' 1885-86 Burleske fare better and have many many top artists recordings so... but I did enjoy at least 2 hearings of this in various moods . Not forgettable but so little stays in the mind here ...

Not very Respighi-ish

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