Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940) : Piano Concerto (1935) 

Hexagon Harry -- A real Prodigy.....BRAVO from Acapulco!

How is being taken at the age of 25 "poetic"? Oh, I think I get it:-"twenty-five" rhymes with "unalive"!

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Michael Bártek Something like Mieczyslaw Karlowicz in Poland - 32 years and a mountains accident.

Ah, which part of the show did they feature this piece? I watched the show, but I don't recall!

De artistiek leiders van concertzalen denken alleen maar aan hun financieėn en lokken het snob-publiek met Rach 3 en Grieg...

Espero que en estos 3 años te haya dado tiempo a conocer a bastantes genios con muertes tan prematuras como la de esta compositora. Leckeu, Stanchinsky, Reubke... incluso Julian Scriabin, con 11 años. Entre otros tantos.

20 ans

for discography or published scores of music by Kapralova visit kapralova.org

www.kapralova.org/EDITION.htm

The "second" one is the "Partita" for piano and string orchestra, but yes, it is a second piano concerto in all but the title. It is a more neoclassical and modern piece (is a later piece also) tha the first concerto, and is much influenced by Martinu's own style, but with a special touch.

Yes, but mind you she was only 20 yrs old when she composed this one. Obvious at that age to be one among dozens of Rachmaninoff imitators / followers and write a "retro" concerto. I have heard other pieces of Kapralova that are more "mature" (piano solo, for instance where a composer does not typically need to show up as an "official" one "de concert" and can release better his/her intimate, more autentic mood). In conclusion, yes, this piano concerto does not add much more than a pleasant listening, but, again, Kapralova wrote way better stuff and - yes - her premature death deprived history of music of a potential great and mature composer to be included in the XX century hall of fame

@@pietrolandri6081 I feel that referring to this as a 'Rachmaninoff imitation' (I know that's not quite what you're saying, but it's close) is just plain unfair to the music. It is very Romantic, but there's a lot of the style that's obvious in later Kapralova poking through here. Maybe not quite as obvious as in her later works, but absolutely there.

@@klop4228 so it be sir...... but I still tend to prefer other works of Kapralova whose personality stands out clearer way....

@@pietrolandri6081 I suppose that's fair! I can't say I know her other works (or this one) that intimately, so I can't comment on which I prefer myself. I can just hear some of the later personality very clearly here :P

@@klop4228 suggest Giorgio Koukl CD with integral of her wonderful piano solo music as well as CD with her songs .... Great stuff ... İMHO ....

in 1935, when she wrote the concerto (a graduation piece for the Brno Conservatory), she was only twenty, while Addinsell wrote it 6 years later at 37.