Anton Rubinstein - Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, Op.94 (1874)

[@williamstock3167]

My first impressions of this work: The first movement is breathtaking! Very different than the better known (though still not well known!) Concerto 4. The latter two movements seem almost quirky in places. But overall I find it to be a very unique, individual work. I'd say that Anton Rubinstein is an undeservedly neglected Romantic era composer!

[@steveegallo3384]

It does have its Allure.....BRAVO, Maestro Banowetz......from Acapulco!

[@ImBosmann]

Good and very underated

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance grandiose fantastic music concerto

[@gerontius34]

Josef Lhévinne made his NY debut with this concerto. What a concert that must have been.

[@LeslieHoward1811]

Busoni played this concerto a lot. What we would give to have a recording of that!!

[@arlettehellemans2117]

Leslie Howard, for me, there is only one LESLIE HOWARD: the famous Australian pianist, born 29 april 1948

[@Saltan1908]

the first movement is truly grand!

[@fulviopolce9785]

Sicuramente il suo concerto più maturo,affascinante,tecnicamente impressionante. Un grande pianista e compositore colpevolmente ignorato,che solo ora si sta scoprendo in tutta la sua bravura.

[@marcdekeyser1021]

This is since 40 years my N° 1 of all romantic pianoconcerto's! Full technique and romantic from the first to the last minute! You must enjoy this technical brilliance! A concerto with plenty of romantic melodies, you must enjoy these! This is the version on GENESIS label I possess many times! Marvellous Music to dream, if you like high romantic music! You must really hear this complete pianoconcerto! I possess all his works and Rubinstein is a real master of romantic music! The only pitty is that at that time there was not already DDD-recording, but this thus not bother to listen to real romantic music. Forget the very little background noise, then this music is so phantastic!!! BEAUTIFUL!

[@waukee321]

The version I have on vinyl and CD has Adrian Ruiz as pianist. Also great performance.

[@fulviopolce7652]

Anche se non ha piu'la brillantezza dei concerti giovanili giovanile rimane la testimonianza di una grande tecnica pianistica.

[@vladimirhorowitz9396]

Thank you

[@jeanaprea8216]

anton Rubinstein quel grand compositeur de c'est 5 concertos pour piano exelente interpretation c'est grandiose j'adore ecoute ce grad de la musique!

[@Chorizo727]

The grandest of all piano concertos!

[@GIROSSINI58]

di una bellezza sconvolgente!

[@MrNepomuk]

Je trouve personnellement les oeuvres d'Anton Rubinstein magnifiques. Pour se persuader qu'il a été un grand compositeur et qu'il l'est encore naturellement, il suffit d'écouter ses symphonies pleines d'héroïsme et d'élégance, le tout teinté d'orientalisme. Une pure extase. Ces concertos sont grandement virtuoses mais toujours très musicaux. Il ne s'agit pas d'étalage mais de composition tout en nuances. Je dirais qu'il est dans la lignée d'Hummel, de Mendelssohn, de Schumann pour aboutir à son propre style : le sien. Après tous les goûts sont dans la nature : on aime ou pas. Le groupe des 5 le detestait : pour eux il était trop occidental, Rubinstein les trouvaient trop brutaux et sans raffinement. En revanche il promut Tchaikovsky, son élève. Pour moi, je le répète Rubinstein, c'est de la grande musique, et n'oublions pas qu'il fut mis à l'index par l'antisémitisme "renaissant" sous l'impulsion de Wagner (même si ce dernier semble ne pas être défrisé par Rubinstein, un concurrent moins direct que Meyerbeer ?). Bref, Rubinstein est un grand compositeur à redécouvrir et que l'on peut, oui, je le pense aussi comparer avec les plus grands.

[@fulviopolce9785]

Magnifica interpretazione di Banowetz e dell'orchestra slovacca di questo ultimo grande concerto di Rubinstein. Un Grazie a Dilfeng2 per il caricamento.

[@良有李]

多謝视频介绍那么美妙的音樂/我非常鐘意/這令人平和思潮/心中起伏不止的技巧及音樂完美的声音！好好聽.值得比個LiKE！

[@marcdekeyser1021]

Since Adrian Ruiz recorded this cd on Genesis/Colosseum in the 1960's, no other pianist played this romantic concerto, even not in public. No pianist risks to play this romantic work in a competition, as it is to technical and difficult.In a competition you allways hear the same concertos of Rachmaninoff, Chopin etc..over and over again!

[@s1earle]

Absolutely true; Michael Ponti (of the Romantic Piano Concerto revival) said in his 70s interview that no concert pianist can "risk" losing any recording contract so they stick to the well-known, sometimes playing it faster and louder...Even Liszt fooled his audience once by playing a concerto of a contemporary and saying it was by Beethoven - got the approval of the audience, all because the audience thought it was by the Master himself...

[@waukee321]

I have that version too. Fantastically performed.

[@marcdekeyser1021]

At the time of recording there was no DDD, but it doesn't bother to listen to this phantastic romantic music. I possess all works with orchestra of Rubinstein and they are all high romantic! A pitty that he is a forgotten composer as many others

[@valsammajoseph421]

Pls upload sir

[@juan31188]

Joseph Banowetz grande entre los grandes, la mejor versión de todas las habidas y por haber.

[@larryschroeder134]

banowetz is THE interpreter of Rubinstein available today.

[@pennyreda7643]

Oh, such fine work..........

[@JEANVIPERE]

10'47 magnifique...

[@iobdoi]

Brahms, emotionally dead? His music sounds incredibly expressive and lyrical to me, especially his chamber music. Listen to the clarinet quintet if you haven't. It's possible to praise a composer without putting down another one!

[@levon3194]

Brahms is a German fascist composer. His music should be banned!!!

[@marcdekeyser1021]

Das fünfte ist mein Summum-Klavierkonzert, superromantisch von der ersten bis letzten Note. Dieses Konzert soll man mit geschlossenen Augen anhören. Schade,dass die GENESIS-version nicht mehr zu haben ist! Wer mich nicht glaubt, ist kein Romantiker! Mein Lieblingsklavierkonzert seit 40 Jahren mit nur romantischen Melodien!

[@Neophonica]

In own personal assessment of the Rubinstein Concerti I find that the 4th is by far the most musically compelling and enjoyable . The others just don't cut it in terms of sustaining my interest . I definitely recommend that any newcomer begin with the 4th as this sets the Gold Standard ! Unfortunately , Anton Rubinstein's oeuvre is uneven in quality , but when he gets it right , it is transporting and not merely diverting !

[@dustinlaferney3160]

Your last sentence to me is key to understanding Rubinstein's work. I think this 'unevenness' in quality has contributed to his works being ignored and Rubinstein as a composer being dismissed as inferior. I am a huge Rubinstein fan and am glad to see more people taking an interest in his work.

[@marcdekeyser1021]

Romantischer und technischer als dieses herrliche Klavierkonzert gibt es nicht. Hier geniesst man von der ersten bis zur letzten Note, saubere Ausführung durch den Pianisten Adrian Ruiz, früher auf Columbia und Genesis erhältlich. Für mich die Nummer 1 und Topp!!

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

Does anyone know where I can find the tutorial to this?

[@maks2r513]

Мало кто знает, но этот концерт посвящен Чарльзу-Валентину Алкану - самому техничному пианисту за все время.

[@nevast6617]

I want to know the title of this picture. Where can I look at it ?

[@ChanelBear4Evah]

Why, WHY is there so much ease in dismissing the works of Anton Rubinstein? Uninspired? Awkward Construction? This is why we have umpteen recordings of the Sterile and Insipid and Emotional Dead Works of Brahms and this great writer is ignored. The opening of this concerto is MAGICAL and Hauntingly evocative! Rubinstein's music is Beautiful, anyone who has been fed a steady diet of Brahms would find this music difficult to digest because it has EMOTION, LIFE, Brilliance... not acadeamic Bluster and Unnecessary intricacy... I fear for music that the hatred that continues towards Anton Rubinstein will go on unabated... it saddens me beyond measure... I am sure as i say this there are about 15 more planned recordings of Brahms' monolith of insipidness, The 2nd Concerto....

[@Kumgll]

+Terrill Lawrence But the fact is, in 50 years of listening, I come back again and again to Brahms but never to Rubinstein. I am not unique.

[@vladimir74561]

You are not unique in the mental conditioning imposed by Germanic academia, which needed another great composer to follow Bach and Beethoven. By the way, Brahms was accused of stealing Rubinstein's ideas in the Brahms Second Concerto (especially from the Rubinstein Fourth Concerto, I believe, which preceded the Brahms). He (Brahms) was also accused of borrowing from Beethoven. When told one of his themes was very similar to one in a symphony by Beethoven, Brahms tellingly replied, "Any ass can see that!" If Brahms had ever had a genuinely inspired melody, it probably would have bust his head wide open. It is xertainly not an accident that one of his most popular works was titled Variations on a Theme by Haydn (though the theme appears not to have been Haydn's either). The status of Brahms as a great composer has always been somewhat questionable. Someone even titled a novel Aimez-vous Brahms? which encapsulates the controversy in a nutshell. There may have been more than a little of the musical plagiarist in Brahms, yet originality in music is overvalued probably.What I object to is the double standard. Brahms' lack of melodic originality is thought to be okay by his proponents, but Rubinstein is damned for lack of originality. Yet, Catherine Drinker Bowen, in her biography of the Rubinstein brothers, cites one of their contemporaries to the effect that Anton's music did not sound like the music of anyone else. Finally, the musical aesthetics of Brahms and Anton Rubinstein were markedly different. Yet, Rubinstein is condemned for not doing something he did not set out to do. Such condemnation is worthy of the highest musical Philistinism, something Schumann knew a thing or two about. I do not object to your love, if such it is, of Brahms. What I object to is your feeling it necessary to condemn another composer, in what may be an deeply internalized insecurity about the ultimate status of your Brahms. I regard him as a musical mechanic, very adept at putting together (sometimes not so original) parts, but not worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with Bach and Beethoven. Rubinstein, on the other hand, was a musical poet. He never aspired to the musical "perfection" of the Brahmsian ilk, commenting that " the faith that a man could create something perfect bore within it the seal of conceit." (Korob mislei, Gedankenkorb, and A Basket of Thoughts in their respective Russian, German, and English titles) . I prefer the poet. Anton Rubinstein and Berlioz brought me to classical music in 1964. Neither of them was suggested as candidates for listening at the college music library. Nor did any of my musically literate friends suggest Johannes Brahms. If you like Brahms, even idolize him, I do not begrudge you that pleasure. But do not tell me, and by implication, many sophisticated music lovers and performers that we should not admire the lyrical genius of Anton Rubinstein. I've never heard a work of his that was not at least listenable. Can't say that about everybody. To be a good novelist or short story writer, you have to be able to tell a story well. To write good music, you have to be able to write good melodies. But after all, this is not such a common gift and some choose to disparage it, for various reasons. Mais en fin de compte,, de gustibus non est disputandum.

[@bartjebartmans]

@@vladimir74561 Rubinstein's string quartets, especially nos. 1 and 2, are excellent and would hold their own if they would be performed in same program with Schumann, Brahms or Mendelssohn quartets.

[@sovietclassic5301]

Terrill Lawrence, there were hundreds of Russian composers but only several of them are known on the west. look up video "TOP 30 Russian composers", I am sure you have never heard about 4/5 of them

[@cziffra-eg9st]

Never compare Brahms' Second to Rubenstein Brahms? Insipid? What are you on?

[@tomkendall4532]

I've always admired Rubenstein's chutzpah composing his fifth piano concerto in the key of E-flat major. Let's see: what earlier composer wrote his fifth in the key of E-flat? (Hint: his initials are LvB.) One could easily argue that Rubenstein's fourth (in d minor) is a finer piece of music and thus worthier of revival in American concert halls than the fifth. The fourth does get a very few European performances. The fifth? Never. The point is that NEITHER of these concertos is played on this side of the pond. Instead we get more and more performances of concertos like the Rachmaninoff #1, the Liszt #2 (it'd take a shopping cart full of duct-tape to make that thing hang together structurally), and so on. Maybe it's a "big name" thing?

[@cziffra-eg9st]

To be honest, regarding Rubenstein, except the fourth concerto, his music is often tedious and unnecessarily virtuosic, without being overly complicated

[@TheModicaLiszt]

Liszt’s concertos are structurally excellent.

[@dikferrari1396]

I disagree. Rubinstein's music is orihonal in its own right. Such comments were made when Beethoven probably did the Eroica. I hold segments of this concerto to be quite outstanding. These are the beginning of Russian nationalism in classical music.

[@stevenarmstrong3249]

Russian Nationalism in music...try 50 years before this! Useless fact: Safanov pushed Medtner to tour with this concerto much to Medtner's dismay.

[@yevgenybas5222]

Firstwall, russian nationalism began in russian music 30 years before and not was connecting with name and music of Rubinstein, more - that consert it's another side from "russian nationalism". For Your nollege, Rubinstein was fundator of romanthic and "anthynationaltst' tradition and direction in Russian music, an all his way was "gilty" in 'not enought russian spirit in music". Especialy, in this concert we listening ideas of early pomantism, voices of early Bethoveen concerts, fylosophical symbolism, lyrics and poethic clearity om musical theemes, but realy - nothing russian folclor and nation elements, nothing of nationalism tendention. Really, I don't know, what in this concert possible to connect with "russian nationalism". The first part - perfect fylosophical improvisation, "variation" structure conception, than was very novator in romantic concerts, the second part - deep fylosofical and existentional thinking... This concert can to be ethalon of early pomanthic music, I desagre about unresponsibility of Your opinion...

[@fulviopolce9785]

Ok 1874.

[@antonytrindade209]

Dostoiévski me trouxe aqui. Crime e Castigo 2019

[@lucassanches-g3c]

Gostou da música?

[@fulviopolce9785]

Il concetto comunque non può essere del 1874, ma parecchio più anziano.

[@horsemeattball]

Not a great work, but I wouldn't mind having it my collection. Some passages are absolutely brilliant, tied together with some that are not so brilliant. Very, very unusual, to say the least.

[@johnking6208]

Please notice the phrases and fragments that St. Saens, and Rachmaninoff lifted.

[@sonatina6]

Guys, this was a waste of time for me personally to hear such a mediocre Concerto. It simply doesn't have anything to say. It's like talking 46 minutes without saying anything. Brahms? He is a giant and he will always be so. His music touches one from the very first notes no matter which composition was that. Trying to bring to life a dead cat is a waste of time.If some work was under-praised at its time, posterity does justice to it. This is just notes, no music. But thanks for posting it anyway!

[@Chorizo727]

Brahms was boring for me.

[@llanellboy]

I find Brahms deathly boring. Nothing more than academic exercises.

[@valsammajoseph421]

Useless people comparing one composer with other then go and listen the respective composer why waste ur time

[@tonylogan4092]

Stop jabbing people with inane and insincere bs just to provoke.Rubenstein composed great music. Why not just admit it?

[@cziffra-eg9st]

@@tonylogan4092 because his handling of harmony is sometimes laughably haphazard, and the music has an origin from the salon, but the writing is unnecessarily grand. And the virtuosity is mostly unnecessary and superfluous