Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) : Piano Concerto No. 1 (1912) **MUST HEAR** 

I’m guessing you mean Rachmaninoff? Just making sure there isn’t some great composer called Rachy I’ve never heard of

@@dracowolfe305 Yes, Rachy is Rachmaninoff

Don't present things as if Rachmaninov was responsible for someone's life and destiny and for the course of World events. Art is not sports competition, there's no need to measure 'greateness' of composers or their music in meters or kilograms. And your obvious underappreciation of Rachmaninov has no effect on his legacy and greatness. You found a very immature and silly way to express your thoughts.

@aivarasz Great composers are outshined by other composers all the time. It doesn’t mean that either one is even necessarily better or worse because of it, it’s just something that happens. Look at Beethoven and Schubert. Schubert lived his life in Beethoven’s shadow, but it doesn’t mean that arts was a competition or that Schubert was a worse composer because of it, it’s just something that happens.

What do you think of Busoni piano concerto, and Furtwangler symphonic concerto?

@@jameshandaja1536 I placed both in my own personal grouping of favorite piano concertos. However, since I am still finding new works uploaded to RU-vid that I have never heard before, I haven't revisited them. Thanks for the reminder. It is time for a revisit to those works. They are now at the top of my history list and get top priority.

Just listened to Ornstein's piano concerto. Spooky az! Soon after it started I woz sweatin' and tremblin' like a leaf-that's always a good sign right?! Seriously freaked me out-but in a good way. (Interesting fact about Ornstein-he was the longest-lived composer, getting to well over the ton(i.e.,century)-and maybe if more people heard his piano concerto, not just the longest-lived, but the longest-loved as well!).

Versatile and durable ! I remember this recording well, goes back to the 1960s or 1950s ( on US Decca, or " Desto"?) in our Downtown Main Public Library ( Ryerson Library Grand Rapids, Mich ) . High school years. Forgot how good the Concerto is ( w/ joke on Debussy's " Printemps" in 3 ) also how good the performance. If this is the Radio Orchestra I. Hamburg ( NDR) they were and are a terrific orchestra. Their immediate post WW2 version still had some of their legendary brass section plus their regular conductor was Wilhelm Scheuchter, terrific old pit conductor . Fairly tight ensemble then despite European orchestras mainly being a mess from the end of the War. Side B is, I think, Busoni's Indian Fantasy, another fun rare item. Hopefully it gets posted.

Jamshed Delvadavala I agree about the stature of this Concerto. Howsomever: The avant- garde music of 1912 Was heard by few. Bortkiewicz wrote in the mainstream- late romantic style prevalent in the first world until the end of the Great War. Wiklund, Stenhammar 2, Lyapunov 2, RU-vid discoveries Showing the bittersweet nostalgia of the end of an era.

They cut some sections of the concerto simply because it was a little too long for the duration of an LP, in 1964. Corentin Boissier (collectionCB, collectionCB2, collectionCB3, collectionCB4 & collectionCB5)

+jai owners The 2nd (Left Hand) concerto has been recorded by Donemus out of the Netherlands, together with the Third Concerto. Both are fine recordings, and if you think this is good you should get those. By the way, the recording in this video is heavily cut; the recording Stephen Coombs made for Hyperion is complete.

+Bom Cabedal This recording is cut, but I prefer it.It has more charme for me and I am a great admirer of Mitchell and Stricklands work.

+Michael Schlechtriem Thanks for telling me. I agree. It would be nice to find some complete recordings to upload with score though (and some better scores for that matter). I was hoping to do all 3 concertos :(

+Michael Schlechtriem I agree that it is a fine performance, but for me it's about par with Coombs's and in that case, I'd always go for the complete version that has much better sound to boot. But in honesty, I'm just glad that there *is* more than one recording of this great concerto about - three at the moment, if you count the other video here on RU-vid.

+Bom Cabedal Very true!

+Torrie Madden The performance I uploaded is from a LP (CRI Records) from 1964. Another performance of this concerto has been edited commercially on an Hyperion CD ("Romantic Piano Concertos", vol. 4). Corentin Boissier (collectionCB, collectionCB2, collectionCB3 & collectionCB4)

It begins with a Wagner quotation!

No.It is Strickland, but with the NDR Symphony Hamburg.

I think it was the NDR Symfonieorchester.

Yes, I know. As I indicated in the Description of this video: "In this performance, the first and last movements have been abridged". This was due to the limitations of duration of the LPs. Corentin Boissier (collectionCB, collectionCB2, collectionCB3, collectionCB4 & collectionCB5)

@@collectionCB4 since when are there limitations to video length here? anyway and most importantly, if there are limitations - do not upload 90% of a piece, just don't upload it at all. you can't just cut the best part of the whole piece off in order to upload it. it's seriously the most annoying frustrating things that happened to me in a while...

@@Mr704010400 It's not me who decided to cut it (the limitation is not for the RU-vid video). The cuts are present in the original recording.

@@collectionCB4 That's the stupidest thing I ever heard... It's crazy.

Iian Neill Mendel-who??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn

Hyun-Woo Park Easily solved-drink at home.

Lo descubrí casualmente en una emisora radial ,hace más de una década ,y.lo grabé en cassette.aun lo conservo.vivan los rusos.

That's okay,you made up for it by putting an extra 't' in "pity".