@@steveegallo3384 where I live there was heavy rain and winds, but in my particular neighborhood, we just had some oak trees lose a lot of leaves and small branches. Things were hit a lot harder further west, in the mountains. Asheville is a mess. And, of course, further south...

@@JAMESLEVEE -- [Post-Cyclone Report] "Looks like we're getting consistent Water...probably Municipal. Impressive display of bulldozers piling mounds of Silt from street. Just waiting for the Swiss to jumpstart Elevator.... and for DHL to resume deliveries...down to 1 bottle of Rioja, but 7 'TICUS' Mexican Porter-Stouts (very good!) All's well......"

I've never heard Spohr called mediocre.

My bad. It's the moustache. They all had a moustache.

Hey...are you any relation to Pierre, the conductor?

@@JAMESLEVEE No, I'm Chinese. Cao is also a Chinese surname that is pronounced tsao. Once I thought Pierre was a French-Chinese, too😂

@@hyperaticism it doesn't help that I don't know if he pronounced it tsao or cow.

@@JAMESLEVEE My guess is his surname is of Portuguese origin and is pronounced like Kang or something

Many thanks!

@@JAMESLEVEE -- My pleasure....Always.

Great.....BRAVI from Acapulco!

I'm afraid not. I get after them to upgrade my Bitchute uploads, but they've stopped responding, and my computer is in storage. It may be degraded by now.

@@JAMESLEVEE Ok…… Thank you all the same

​ @JAMESLEVEE Oh, by the way, can you still upload with other devices? Did you still retain that Piatti Cello Concerti disc? I'm curious about the Concertino that is the coupling of the second one you had uploaded.

@@hyperaticism sorry, but the CD collection is also in storage.

@@JAMESLEVEE alright

He was a Bach scholar.

The original recording was made in 1989 and released on Koch- Schwann.

OK. What about him?

It's a trial run for her 2nd, too.

It's a matter of taste and what you consider a concerto ought to be. I disagree, but only because I prefer symphonic rather than soloistic styles. That said, I consider Hummel's concertos equally worthy to Beethoven's, for what they are. And this one is the most Beethovenian of the lot.

@@JAMESLEVEE Hmm.

It's interesting to look at the construction of the first movement and see how Brahms constructed the first movement of his 1st Piano Concerto. The rhapsodic nature of the thematic distribution between solo and tutti brings to mind a linkage between the 22nd Piano Concerto of Mozart (Hummel's teacher), through this one, and on to Brahms.

@@JAMESLEVEE We can see that in Chopin's piano concertos too.

@@fazliddinerkaboyev6568 actually, Chopin's piano concertos are way more conservative than this concerto in construction (he actually modeled the first movement of his E minor concerto on the corresponding movement of the 1st Concerto of Kalkbrenner, who prided himself on his self-styled "Classicism".) Chopin's innovations were more in the realm of tonal structure than thematic layout, and his solo/tutti relationships are highly soloistic, far moreso than Hummel's. The only concerto I can think of that is as soloistic as those of Chopin that he could have used as a model is Moscheles' 4th, of 1823.