Keith Lockhart conducts Valentina Lisitsa (piano) and the BBC Concert Orchestra in the Film Music Prom. Enjoy our beloved Valentina Lisitsa in this Oscar-winning performance as best soundtrack!
My dad loved this, and wanted so much to learn it, but he was not a pianist and never did, but he would sit at the piano for hours playing the parts that he knew. Now every time i hear it, I listen and think of him.
This is a nice pastiche of Rachmaninoff for a movie theme, not a formal concerto. If you wish to call anything a greatest piecenof music, at least mention Rach 2nd or 3rd piano Concerto. Or if you want to point to a pinnacle of mankind, at least mention Bach, Beethovan, or Mozart.
This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written! And this arrangement with the Proms and Valentina Lasitsa is just spectacular! Gorgeous in every way! Brings out every emotion, sadness, great happiness, a bitter sweet feeling and finally that of triumph! No piece of music has this same effect!
A testament to the heroism of the Polish people. Against all odds they fought for what was right. We could all learn something todayl from their deep conviction and belief. Bravo!!
Whatever Valentina plays and where she plays it is always done with absolute perfection and emotion. She is brilliant . I could listen to her play without end and I basically do!! 💕
She has ancestry that includes Polish. No wonder she plays this work with so much understanding ! I was in the Warsaw ghetto in 1959, before it was restored, I can see those images when I listen to Valentina !
I enjoy the piano sheet music much better for this masterpiece without an orchestra. Probably because my mother was a concert pianist and she played this SO beautifully at home, I was always crying at the end even if I was studying. I miss her beyond words.😢
I thought Richard Addisell was a movie music composer when the director asked him to write a tune for the movie and to make it sound like Rachmaninoff. He surely succeeded.
This lady to my ear plays this most beautful piece I have folled for over 50 yrs...noboty to my ear has interpreted appropriately but she I feell Addisels true interpreter,he tone,ryhham, finger work..immaculate,her poise of orchestra lead..pure wondrous...Valentina is a most ovious Maesto...unsurpassrd her interperation of every note & mode...inspiring..all seems as She wrote it herself...a Monserrat Cabille of my beloved piano...genious..Warm wishes & huge Musical rrspect Valentine...Wow,wow,wow! John Tipperary Iteland..Fashion is fleeytng, but your most certainly will endure...Maesto..such a pleasure to hear & watch your fingers move like magic...Unbeliveable..* your interpretation of a beloved peace..Anderse's ..Prodigy!..brings tears!! John
Wow, that just blew me away. What a wonderful set of emotional melodies woven together. Just pure emotion. Amazing how subtle some sections are, and how powerful others are. 👏 Big applause for this lovely performance. Brings a tear to my eye that we can't see this now, with Covid going on. I'd give over $500 to sit in that audience for an hour and a half, to hear music like this tonight.
Since I was a child I have enjoyed Classical Music, specially Rachmaninoff, this so called concerto, (which is not really a formal concerto), has always facinated me, I had no idea why; until I learned that Addinsell was requested to write some music for a movie, (Dangerous Moonlight), "in the style of Rachmaninoff". I cannot stop listening to it.
Warsaw most likely the most beautiful Concerto ever written played by Valentina Lisitsa one of the most talented Pianists in the World . It just doesn't get much better than this. It's just such a disappointment Martha Argerich or Yuja Wang have never played this , that would be spectacular .
Probably because they feel a movie theme is beneath their level of seriousness. Warwar Concerto was written in the style of Rachmaninoff as background music for the movie Dangerous Moonlight, so it is not a formal concerto and not recognized as a canon of classical repertoire.
This is such an emotional piece for me as it was film music for a World War II movie, Dangerous Moonlight . To listen to Miss Lisitsa is a gift. To watch her face validates all my feelings! Thank you so much for sharing this. And of all things: Keith Lockhart is conducting! I’m a Boston fan.
My late partner Rex adored this peice of music, he had a recording of it that he bought in his teens. I had this played at his funeral, it's beautiful and moving too.
Whoever allowed a commercial to interrupt this incredible display of human excellence should be forced to endure 12 uninterrupted hours of Barry Manilow.
My Dad told me once this was played on Polish radio in the early days of World War Two. Once the Nazis took over this music vanished from the airwaves.
If you listen to this great performance and watch photos of Warsaw after the Nazi attacks, a dramatic contrast appears....musical beauty and destruction.
Magnifique interprétation...!..pour moi ça a toujours été un rêve de jouer ça...l'hyper-romantisme!...fougue, passion, intensité de l'émotion, quelle partition de génie inspiré !...
I heard this piece for the first time ever on the radio this morning. I didn't know what it was or who wrote it. Initially I thought it just HAD to be by Gershwin (there are some VERY Gershwin-esque moments in there!). What an amazing concerto. Fell in love with it immediately!... and then to find this version played by Valentina!!!! ❤
Faux Rach but still very good faux Rach. Valentina of course plays this with her usual spectacular fashion, lovingly lingering over each note allowing each one to develop into a gorgeous melody. Although this was composed as a movie music accompaniment, Addinsell knew enough Rach to prepare a beautifully composed pastiche evoking the themes from Rach's 2nd.
One of the first classical pieces I heard, and loved, as a kid. Sure it's lightweight and schmaltzy, but it's still beautiful. I love Valentina. She has a RU-vid segment where she is learning/sight-reading the work. Unfortunately, to my ears, she and this conductor were not in sync in this performance.
Her immedesimation is totalistic here. The orchestra supplies a sufficient background but it is her who arises the quality of this aeternal love theme to authentic artistry goals , spheres, aims and aspirations.She's really Superb!
The score was written to imitate Rachmaninoff and she/the conductor and orchestra pull it off! It kind of is a “fluff” piece but fun to play and has been a favorite in our popular culture. Glad she has made a career for herself….well deserved
Even if it was a Russian who made this monumental concerto (my folks came from Poland) it is my favorite and a magnificent interpretation ce n'est pas?
A wonderful performance, indeed. It’s just a pity about the offensive and in-your-face wndershare logo in the middle of the screen. I won’t download the video because of it.
Como pueden cortar el video antes que se termine de escuchar el eco de la última nota, y sobre todo, la ovación que seguramente siguió. ??? Una vergüenza
Regardless of how "structurally primitive" it is and much gorgeous music is harmonically and thematically simple, but it is the genius of creativity and what you do with simple ideas which elevates them beyond the average - just look at some of Beethoven's themes, and no one would say his music is "structurally primitive". The fact remains that the Warsaw Concerto is beautiful music written by a creative individual who obviously knew what he was doing....
This upload is a DISGRACE to Addinsell AND Lisitsa. If this is what Wondershare does to music then I will pass, thanks. The sound quality is truly awful. Do yourself a favour, RU-vidrs and watch the BBC version
