Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell) 

Today is my mother's birthday, Feb. 20, 1925. She played Warsaw Concerto on the paino. it was her favorite and mine. Happy Birthday, Mom!!! And, thank you for everything! You were my greatest teacher and always will be. I love you.

My father had this piece of music, and I adored it. I remember once having a chest infection and running a high temperature. I was in bed, and it was a warm summer evening, and this music was going through my head until I drifted off to sleep! My father was sat with me the whole time. I was about 8 years old. Thanks Dad for all you did! 🙏🙏🙏

My mother is in hospital right now, she loves this piece of music, if you can, and if it's not against your Religion, pray for her please.

Priceless

I was born in 1952, but my parents memories of a harsh Europe from 1939 to 1945 showed on their faces when we would listen to this. It remains one of my favourite “classical” pieces.

This was my mother's favorite piece of music, bless her soul. She passed 15 months ago.

This concerto always fills me with hope. Life is bloody tough but listening to this I realise I´m fortunate to be here. Terrific pianist. Thank you.

I learned to play this wonderful piece of music when I was young. My Father (Frank Reidy) was a friend of the composer and played (Clarinet) in the orchestra during the recording of the score for the film Dangerous Moonlight. I cannot listen to it without crying. This performance was truly excellent for such a young pianist. Very moving indeed. Francesco Reidy London 2011.

One of my most loved piano concertos. I heard it years ago, and have always loved it. I don't care about the dangerous moonlight. Doesn't scare me! Grieg's in Am is my second favorite

Richard Addinsell was a gifted composer of many fine film scores. He deserves every performance his music gets on the concert platform.

Il Concerto di Varsavia, di Richard Addinsell, uno dei doni più belli e preziosi che l'uomo abbia ricevuto... Mi riporta indietro nel tempo: ai miei 18 anni. Grazie di cuore per questo meraviglioso risveglio! Ore 6:00 antimeridiane del 22 marzo 2024. E adesso si và in ufficio. 😢

This was written as a kind of pastiche of a Rachmaninov concerto and it is brilliant in its way, condensing into one movement, as dictated by the needs of the film script, the essence of a full concerto.

What a brilliant young man - and still in his teens, by the look of it !

Listened to this as a kid in 1960s as Mum & Dad had a lot of old LPs and loved this one. This & Holst's Mars.

This concerto is a fabulous and wonderful composition standing the test of time. The first time I heard it I was 11 and my piano teacher, Mrs. Orr performed it off sheet music and I was blown away. I am 67 now and it still blows me away. mk

Love it ! I played this as a young girl . Now an old woman and can no longer play the piano . I loved the way this pianist rendered one of the most beautiful concerts of this times . Pity it is not given the honor of a Grieg or a Rachmaninoff . Bravo !!

I love this piece especially when I could play it some years ago when i was younger and healthier.

Ah! This brings back so many fond memories. It is sad that this fine concerto has fallen into disuse. It deserves far better. This is a fine start but probably too late. To all those of my generation: Enjoy!

I listened to this when I was young. It was one of my favorite pieces then, it continues to be today. So very powerful.❤

Truly wonderful. This masterpiece never fails to send a shiver down my spine everytime i hear it. 👌

Truly am blown away by this. It touches my very soul.

Thank you for playing my favorite piece of music. I heard this when I was ten, it touched my soul and love to hear this piece always. I'm now old and just can't understand why I still love to hear this piece when it makes me cry.

My parents’ favorite. Married in 1946. Santa Barbara, CA.concert sobbed over by coeds during the war.

Very beautiful! Reminds me of my favorite composer Rachmaninoff. Played it at the end of one of my piano classes today. A 15 year old said it made her cry,

Cris, I love this piece of music ... congratulations for posting... from Brazil! Sorry my bad english

In 1960 my father bought a LP collection from Readers Digest, Popular Music Festival. Since then the Warsaw Concerto was one of the best inspirations I've had. Soon we had a piano, I took a music course and learned to play. Thank you, Addinsell.

I have no words to comment this beauty

Musica senza tempo, magnifica, unica ,emozionante ❤

I love this concerto 30 years - Addinsell - genius!

One of my favourite pieces of music... It inspires me every day..

Very impressed with your playing. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to play the piano keys with such speed and dexterity. OMG, your playing took my breath away. More success to you!

Fantastic job!! Playing this tomorrow on the cello with piano soloist. Practicing along with your recording is helping tremendously.....👏👏👏😊

My aunt was an accomplished pianist and a teacher. She returned from Italy in 1947 and moved in with us in NJ. My mother, her younger sister, was the violinist, and they had concretized in Europe before the war. I have fond memories of my aunt at her baby grand playing this for me when I was a child.

I absolutely love this piece. My 13-year-old son just finished learning it on the piano, and I made him promise he will not forget how to play it.

a truly breathtaking Performance Chris --- with the Sinfonia ---it made me Cry...........

Great piece of work gives me goose bumps just listening to this wonderful music

I think it's wonderful. And played so well. It has depth of feeling and brings to life another time. Music today cannot speak like this.

Dan MacNamera and I used to lay on his bed in college, clothes on, and listen to this over, and over. Thank-you Dan for turning me on to this almost 40 years ago now. Great memories of you, and this music. Kathy Ballard xooxox

it is the masterpiece admireded by many who still like good music and the skill required to play.

Suonato quasi a memoria.......ancora piu' valorizzato! Musica sublime!!!

3:22 blows me away. That was just awesome. Chris Hill was on fire.

Very moving...great job. I listen to this over and over while I paint. It is a very challenging piece and quite inspirational.

I cannot play this piece enough. It captures the heartbreak of war and is exquisite. Warsaw was truly desecrated yet there was always hope. Richard Adinsell is brilliant in conveying the tragedy yet the hope and will of the people. It was written during the ear ad part of an effort to keep the faith. I may be all wrong.

Exquisite, magical, pure beauty.

When somebody claims no classical music comes from movie soundtracks, this here is proof they are wrong.

First time I heard this piece of music was sixty years of ago I now 80 years of age.beautiful-score and my breast still bursts with excitement,wonderful ❤

A very beautiful piece of music, and a very skilled pianist. I do envy these very talented people. Thankyou. Andrew Wyeth.

This music reminds me of my father. I remember when I was 8 in the 60's he had an LP with this concerto on and it used to get played on a Sunday afternoon, it used to make me feel sad 😢! I remember once I was running a high fever and this tune just went round and round in my head.

i've started learning this today - and the fingering is quite a nightmare! - definitely a lot more than meets the eye. A truly beautiful piece - beautifully preformed - Bravo Chris!

I learned this work when I was 12, 1 piano version. My classical trained teacher told me it was based on Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto & having played that at 16, I can hear the similarity. Never mind that, I still love it as a great movie theme.

Beautiful piece of classical music.

Such a beautiful and haunting piece of music. Rarely does music feed the soul as does this extraordinary classic. My father was Polish and whenever we walked into a certain club, the pianist would instantly play the Warsaw Concerto in honour of my father and all the other Poles who risked their lives fighting for this country. To the day my father died, he still had nazi shrapnel in his legs, which he got fighting at El Alemein and Monte Cassino.

So outstanding in this performance!

This was the first record I bought. I have loved it for 40 years. Harp 2023.

Excellent technique! Beautiful execution as well; it's rather sad, though, that this concerto is a rarity and hardly ever performed anymore.

Beautiful composition, excellent performance. More please. This is a significant 20th Century piece.

I studied this concerto 45 years ago! I just took out the sheet music last week to play it. It is truly a difficult piece to play but this was a joy to listen to. I never had the chance to perform with an orchestra but would have loved to been a true concert pianist. I was told I had the talent but not the funds to go to Julliard. Still, I never gave up and love playing the piano. This is one of my favorite pieces to play. He did an amazing job, as did the orchestra. Performing live is not the easiest thing to do but I loved it when I got the chance to play for the public.

Deeply evocative and moving. Makes me glad to be alive. Thank you.

this was written for a british movie about the polish struggle with the invastion of the nazis- the movie was Dangerous Moonlight 1941

Full of passion excitement and energy superb sit back shut your eyes and just let the music take hold of you ❤

i love this piece of music... russ conway used to play it to me, now it makes me cry and remember a better time in life.....

Each and every time I listen to the Warsaw Concerto; I remember the movie Dangerous Moonlight!

Addinsel was definitely paying homage to Rachmaninoff with this beautiful piece. Rachmaninoff was offered the job (and refused) to score for the 1941 movie "Dangerous Moonlight." Addensell was brought in and told to score this film in a Rachmaninoff style. Addinsell complied and thus we have the very Rachmaninoff lush and beautiful themes running throughout this composition.

You àre wonderful Richard. My first time of hearing this but I hope not my last

😮 BRILHANT .. BRAVO 👏👏👏👏👏my GOD AWESOME PERFORMANCE..👏👏👏👏👏

This piece is absolute epic greatness. If only rachmaninoff had composed it. It is almost as if rachmaninoff stepped into the mind of Addinsell.... Also a shout out to the pianist Chris Hill...great performance!!!

This has been "the song" that makes my heart rejoice for years. The Technology we have now is so wonderful, I can just pick this up and play it a thousand times if I want to.

Listening to classical music gives you a heavenly feeling and peace . It is magical and resonates to all your body system.

Desde hace varios años la escucho frecuentemente y nunca dejo de maravillarme de lo hermosa que es y de lo magistralmente interpretada por Addinsell

This is an engaging rendition of the Warsaw Concerto, the most significant instrumental work written in England during the war, still conjuring up a time and place better than any other piece. Simultaneously magical, inspirational and heart-wrenching … Chopin would dearly have loved to have written this one … all of his works were written from a strong, unwavering sense of patriotism, and a longing to return.

Exquisite, a marvelous rendition of a beautiful musical score.

Wow what a remarkable performance I salute your talent Maestro

Used to listen to this with my mum who died last year many memories

Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece

what a wonderful performance....I've never heard another concerto that impressed me like this one!

The movie is actually very interesting musically... there are several scenes where the pianist 'improvises' different themes not heard in the final cut of the concerto; an interesting insight into Richard Addinsell's sketches

Beautiful. Chris Hill is amazing. I remember my mum and those early years when we only had the radio with the magic eye - but cherished it, my first taste of classical music from that little wooden box. This concerto was one of our favourites.💛

My childhood Saturday mornings. ❤

Glorilla feat. Duke Deuce - Just Say That (sent me here) 🔥

Tremenda composición. Profunda y conmovedora belleza!!

Hauntingly beautiful. ❤

I cannot stop crying

What a performance!!!!! You are a great pianist Thank you Chris.

This is the first classical music i ve ever listened when i was 17 yrs...and since I fall in love with this music...it 45 years ago..

Amazing. My mum’s favourite piece. Thank you. And your story of your tutor not living to see you perform. Bless you. And him

Enjoyed that so much Amazing

Faultless performance of a incredible composition it never fails to move you i have listened to this concerto since i was a lad ,am now 78 and it still have to hold back my tears ,so moving is it .

Absolutely beautiful and great music 🎶 🎵 ❤

wonderful so fantastic

Love it! This is the first performance and recording I hear of the Warsaw Concerto that is as crisp, sharp, and emotional as my beloved, but now rather scratchy 1963 record of David Haines with the Paris Theatre Orchestra (also present here on youtube, but just as scratchy as my record).

I love watching the film The GlassMountain with this gorgeous concerto as the central theme.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Gonna need someone to turn those pages... the pianist has his hands full. Beautifully performed!

Uma das músicas mais lindas que já ouvi, concerto maravilhoso!!!! Simplesmente maravilhoso

In terms of meaningful emotive music fitting the times (WW11) this is the most memorable for me since my then childhood. I lived then surrounded by central european music scores, plus a RAF father (bomber command) so the first piece of classical (style) music stayed with me ever since.

A very good interpretation of this lovely work. Excellent tempo and gravitas. I loved hearing this beloved piece again. Thanks for sharing and I will go to the Fantasia. Thanks again.

TY, for the lovely performance❤! Memories of the golden oldie films, one it was played in(?!). As to your choice of style of composers you prefer, well, no joking, I have a small parrot who is very musical, has perfect pitch & adores Mozart, French impressionists like Debussy & Ravel & even Korngold’s Violin Concerto (especially the double stopping bits!). I only have a rather rusty relative pitch now in old age so if I whistle in the wrong key he Pepe ignores me! Best wishes to you, 🥰JC&P🎶

Nice job! Only a true pianist can do this!

Beautiful music, beautifully played. A wonderful concerto in the style of Rach. Chris Hill did a great job.

Awesome piece of music

Qué paz me da...... Mi pieza clásica favorita... Ojalá hubiese tenido el privilegio de haber tocado el piano... Y concretamente esta maravillosa música