If this pianist is actually using just his left, I'd love to see it because those (4:56 is just one example) were just too quick to be done with one. I could very well be wrong I admit, but it seems too clean and too quick. If someone has a video I'm curious.
@@thenameisgsarci Right, the individual who played It in the linked video did those grace notes as I would have expected them to be: almost as an 8th note leading into beat 1.
I just tried it and it's not that hard, I imagine for someone practising this piece on a concert pianist level that it's not a problem at all. I can't imagine why anyone would choose to play it with both hands anyway.
3:09 - OK, I think I just saw Rachmaninov's soul in this part... 3:44 - Hmmm, for some reason... 3:49 - I can imagine this part playing in a James Bond film. 3:54 - "The name's Bortkiewicz. Sergei Bortkiewicz' 3:59 - Well, that would be VERY interesting. XD 6:07 - I'll bet I've heard that 8-note melody before... 6:35 - A cliffhanger, really, Mr. Sergei? *laughs... in dissapointment* (by the way, it's spelt "disappointment") 6:39 - Hmph, fine... >:/ 7:23 - Awww, god, yes, that climax... Thank you very much. I forgive you now. XD 7:28 - Oh, wow, I remember, it's the melody from his own Etude Op. 29 No. 6... 7:35 - I know how you play your cards now... mwahahahahhh... Sorry. Did I miss anything?
Beautiful orchestration with majestic and virtuosic piano part! Very "romantically" harmonized! It's hard to believe that only one hand is playing the solo piano with such rich harmonies!
Confining such a sensational piece of music to obscurity is indeed a shame. The world should hear the piano concerto no.2, a masterpiece of the rarest kind! Intensely musical & romantic. It speaks a fresh & sublimely beautiful language! Thank you you tube! You've done stellar service to music by unearthing this composer & composition! Jamshed Delvadavala from Mumbai.
C'est vraiment le meilleur concerto que j'ai pu écouter jusqu'à présent, c'est tellement triste que ce compositeur ne soit pas + connu, je le trouve vraiment incroyable ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
easily one of the best piano concertos ever, let alone for the left hand. on par with moszkowski. unbelievable. i've spent hours listening and crying to this recording
19:40 I love this part so much. It feels me like I lost my lover... So disperatic melodies. Also, the later melodies are so lovely. I think Bortkiewicz is a magical composer. His music never disappoints me. Why he isn't so popular?
He has to compete with the "Rachmaninov style". And this Concerto is really difficult. But it is true that the lack of popularity of this composer is a crime.....he has many wonderful pieces 😀
Grande concerto pra orquestra e piano! Grande compositor! Não entendo como um compositor desse nível não é tão difundido como os outros mais tradicionais!
I think your comments are great! We almost never get the chance to experience music, live with a friend -- it's always hushed during the performance or talked about in general terms afterwards. I learned about your interpretation and about some references I missed! For those who are too stuck-up to enjoy it, they don't deserve to take advantage of your work putting the video together for free. Keep doing your thing!
This exact piano concerto obsessed me for the past few days and now you bring my favourite interpretation with sheet music, what a coincidence. I am soo grateful to you good sir. Btw I didn't recognize right away the Le Heros etude omg xD you are a genius
Amo esta pieza, reminiscencia de otras obras y compositores. Cada vez que la escucho encuentro un nuevo detalle que hace que me guste todavía más. Gracias por compartirla!!.
Everyone here saying they hear Rachmaninoff, and I do too, but I also get lots of Wagner and lots of Puccini too. Like some of those chromatic passages that are so lyrical feels so Puccini. Anyway yes, a lovely and wonderful work. 🌷
Now I have lost track of where I am in life, and have blurriness instead of straight thoughts about my future actions... That painful feeling of nostalgia, causing chest to burn and heart to ache, without any possibility to access so many things, no possibility to experience so much, loosing so many opportunities and being late to nice things, and all those feelings seem to stem from greed for more good moments, for checking everything, reading everything, experiencing all and crossing most possible things off the list.
It does resemble a bit of Chopinistic features, like 15:10. But in the first bit, with the heavy chords in both the solo piano and orchestra, Russian style is definitely presented as well!
I hate he lost his arm, but grateful for these amazing commissions. Pretty amazing a billionaire's son was in combat and ended up in a POW camp. Can't imagine that happening today.
Notice the big section in F sharp major, a tritone away from the home key of c minor! He ends the concerto in E flat major instead of the expected tonic C major, perhaps following the example of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony!
Actually the piano favors the left hand more than the right the reason being that it's easier to travel up and down the piano with your left verse your right and the left hand is able to get full resonance from the piano because the left hand is able to reach the base notes and a Melody at the same time. This was discovered by godowsky
I'd told you I was working on this :( I guess on the Bright side I'd only got through cleaning up the score and halfway through setting up all the different frames though. Good video anyway, guess you saved me the work! :D Though I think you should check some of the frames midway through. They're not matching up with the music! D:
1) I should've actually advised you NOT to give out your plans away. Treat it like a trade secret. 2) For some reason, my equipment suffered a glitch. Either that, or I've gone video-blind. XD
I've heard people criticize this piece for sounding too Rachmaninoff, but I think we have to put things into context here. I've read somewhere this concerto was composed for a pianist (I think for his friend can't remember) who got his right hand amputated during war, and has no chance of playing any of Rachmaninoff concertos. There's little material about this concerto's history so correct me if I'm wrong.
C'est quand même curieux que l'on connaisse si mal ce compositeur... Ce concerto devrait,au moins, être connu ! Messieurs les pianistes : qu'attendez-vous pour l'inscrire au programme ?
I like this concerto quite a bit, but find quite a lot of the melodic material a little 'unsatisfying' or unimaginative. Not sure why, but to my ears this often seems to be a problem in Bortkiewicz music.
