Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell)

[@MAZE4]

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.

[@bolognafalls]

How's your mother?

[@MAZE4]

@@bolognafalls she passed on.

[@bolognafalls]

@@MAZE4 I'm sorry for your loss. May she fly high.

[@MAZE4]

@@bolognafalls thanks for that kind message friend.

[@ericshackleton9454]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@lanipicard6286]

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.

[@michaeljohnston-ul1vi]

It is also music for the complete Orchestra.

[@GarnerReidy]

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.

[@esthelaurriquia9403]

Bravo!!! I love this music. I used to play this when I was taking lessons at CCM (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) years ago, but I stopped practicing it so I am re-learning it.. This is like Rach 2. I love both of them.

[@arvindpatel1037]

so true brings tears in my eyes every time

[@edisonmoscoso7669]

Perfect!

[@edisonmoscoso7669]

Perfect for me.I had 6 years old when I listening for the first time. The sound,harmony and beauty was in the air.What memory!

[@johnkellett3631]

Fantastic, I love this music.

[@patriziabartolotta251]

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. 😢

[@Khatru39]

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! 🙏🙏🙏

[@roybrown613]

Beautiful piece of music! 10:25 am

[@jeanier12]

So very powerful

[@ChristopherFryman]

I have similar experience.

[@paulturner6111]

From the wonderful Wartime film " Dangerous Moonlight "........ Simply wonderful....

[@Liz-o3z7g]

Sublime 🎼🎹🥀 10:25 pm

[@jamesanderson5268]

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

[@katrinagraham9811]

I lost my brother Ronald last Thursday... He was an amazing pianist and when I was a little girl he took me into a piano shop and played this piece. I love him and miss him so much. Thinking of you James. We have our memories, which we must embrace. RIP

[@theresiaconn542]

She had excellent taste sir My sympathies

[@fx02zbn]

Mt favorite too. I hope it gave her lots of pleasure.

[@tinantmyriam1936]

God bless 🙌 Courage 🍀🌿🍀🌿

[@sondrasmith2691]

You were blessed. May she R.I.P. 🎹

[@hs7921]

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.

[@songsmith31a]

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

[@soniagallina1071]

Si ascolta pju' volte e va sempre diritta al cuore.......

[@Katiecakes602]

I saw a local symphony orchestra perform this piece yesterday, my first time hearing it. I am enchanted. What a strong, romatic, and lyrical piece. Pianist was Constantine Finehouse, with the MetroWest Symphony Orchestra. Just so lovely.

[@songsmith31a]

@@Katiecakes602 You should also look up another piece in a similar vein by another British composer "Dream of Olwen".

[@Katiecakes602]

@@songsmith31a I will, thanks!

[@songsmith31a]

@@Katiecakes602 Also try - "Legend of the Glass Mountain" and "Cornish Rhapsody"...popular pieces here in the UK in the genre of concert music.

[@susanbaker5705]

I feel overwhelmed, fantastic,I'm crying

[@Viktor-Krolock]

I love this concerto 30 years - Addinsell - genius!

[@roseford3483]

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

[@3MikeK]

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

[@soniagallina1071]

Quelle mani sulla tastiera sono un miracolo d'arte!

[@donaldmccormack7580]

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.

[@tinantmyriam1936]

Absolutely magnificent 👌

[@richardbirch8831]

MY dad was born there & escaped the Nazys

[@maradon._.]

I play this in my orchestra and it fills me with anxiety

[@dianazenga5320]

Todos los conceptos expuestos son los que siento y atesoro!!! Maravilloso concierto. tocando yo está pieza musical cuando me recibí de profesora de piano. Año 1958,!!! Me inspiran hasta las lágrimas!

[@ruthcollins2841]

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.

[@ianhills8980]

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

[@roumpinipapadomichelaki4204]

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.

[@batshevaagmon7298]

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

[@roseford3483]

This was playing in the background while my U.S. Captain civil engineer father was writing my mother a love letter during WWII. My mom in the meantime attended a piano concert on State Street in SB, CA; she said female coeds were draped over their chairs sobbing.

[@boyamIhappy]

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.

[@paulturner6111]

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

[@soniagallina1071]

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

[@francis2811]

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

[@RC-ml3ne]

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.

[@rationalthinker-2024]

I have no words to comment this beauty

[@123Aballer]

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

[@amielschotz4982]

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.

[@paolapaturzo213]

Musica senza tempo, magnifica, unica ,emozionante ❤

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

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 !!

[@Admiral8Q]

I bet you were amazing at playing this!

[@jcsrubbishbin6820]

Don't be modest! You're probably hotter than you think Conchitina!

[@drummergirl4742]

Would love to see you play this 😌

[@sondrasmith2691]

I agree with your points.

[@FrankWms]

We all LOVE this song, and good piano playing, don’t we? ❤

[@jabah126]

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

[@michaelpordage8352]

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 ❤

[@ernestinaoliveira9575]

O mesmo acontece comigo inclusive as idades coincidem!!!

[@michaelpordage8352]

@@ernestinaoliveira9575 👍❤️

[@jooppoortenga8692]

Today, 65 years ago I played the Warsaw Concerto in a final contest in Friesland - Bolsward - on a modest piano, but in a wonderfull setting on a small podium in a park lake with fountains all around. Yes, I won, and a free trip to Paris for a week, just before I went for military obligations at the Dutch Marine a week later. This piano piece always opens my mind to World War II crimes to people in Warshaw, which in my whole life does not find a place for mercy to .. your know who...

[@Katiecakes602]

Well there's a story to go along with this musical score. Fantastic!

[@brianmoore4557]

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

[@ianwhitehead4337]

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

[@dyselenbisnar7954]

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.

[@AGoodJudgeofTalent]

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

[@Jenny-pq5eu]

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

[@clamdip2]

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!

[@johnbjelkepugerup3107]

charles Mccaghy ede

[@felixseguragarcia1266]

Sure. An extraordinary Concert. Of course the performance of the soloist Chris Hill makes this concert BEST!.

[@terrencelacroix3884]

we are doing this piece tomorrow night, 6-22-17

[@ramonawalter1442]

Do know know what movie this was played in? I saw it as a child and this piece stayed with me forever.

[@ramonawalter1442]

I just found it. It was Dangerous Moonlight.

[@maureenwilliams3942]

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

[@HerciliaDosSantos-w7g]

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

[@luizmiranda1950]

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.

[@2008wainey]

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

[@manslayer1972]

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.....

[@SeanRaymond]

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

[@DrinkLennyD]

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKK!

[@terrybrowne3448]

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.

[@kyliejackson1605]

My childhood Saturday mornings. ❤

[@artistjaystrong]

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

[@stevekovacs4093]

In the late 70s I had a customer who's home I was remodeling. He had a fully restored player grand piano and he had this piece on a roll.. I used to sneak downstairs when he was away and play it over and over. Nice to hear it again after some 40 plus years.

[@docspead]

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

[@waynecolburn8849]

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.

[@eoscarz]

Exquisite, magical, pure beauty.

[@peteroconnell1161]

I cannot stop crying

[@JeffM---]

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

[@dianeu-wm4ei]

i agree but had some very negative comments to me.......NOT my CONCERN...i like what I LIKE....period.....MY CHOICE

[@anaschroeter5725]

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

[@TheProms]

Priceless

[@darylsmith5517]

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,

[@TheClockwise770]

Yes I actually believed it was composed by Rachmaninov but the chord change aren't really quite his style @6.12

[@jean-michelprillieux5012]

Ce concerto, qu'est que j'ai pu l'entendre quand j'étais jeune. C'était le préféré de ma maman.

[@annshr9917]

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!

[@iancockburn9918]

Beautiful piece of classical music.

[@mariorivero979]

CREO, que era muy pequeño...y..al escuchar esta melodia, al piano, SUPE LO QUE SIĢNIFICABA..EL AMOR..,y...cuando conociera el verdadero AMOR, trataria de acompañarme con esta melodia....😢😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BobSmith-fj6mz]

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

[@donaldmccormack7580]

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

[@Liz-o3z7g]

❤

[@cezar1951]

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

[@Rembrandtt66]

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

[@antoniotermulo9214]

What!!!! 77 thumbs down???? On this fantabulous piece of heavenly melody???? What are this mindless people thinking 🤔.. I love ❤️ it. 😍😍😍😍😍

[@belartful]

I read the thumbs down are not real,but computer generated..

[@SkugSkellum]

Possibly influenced by Spike Milligan's description of it as "the Bloody Awful Warsaw Concerto". This description probably coloured by constant requests for it, as well as repetitions on radio, in 1941. Overexposure will generate antipathy. And of course, some people just don't like classical music.

[@MsOgr1]

Fred Cairns yes, I hated that he did that.

[@johnlunnun9769]

@@SkugSkellumI’ve always wondered why Spike Milligan was so derogatory about this music?

[@SkugSkellum]

@@johnlunnun9769 As well as the overexposure, I think he was disgusted at the blatant propaganda of it. It was "commercial" classical music, in that sense. It was composed to conjure an emotion and evoke a popular response.

[@1213978]

So outstanding in this performance!

[@AuntieMamie]

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.

[@randallwells2892]

This is so beautiful it some times brings tears to my eyes. Some people cant understand that . Their loss

[@antoniotermulo9214]

Superb performance by the pianist and the Philharmonic Orchestra.. heavenly.... divine.... uplifting.... captivating....❤️❤️🎹🎹🌹🌹🎻🎻💋🎵🎵💝💝🎺🎺

[@speakwell.840]

Hauntingly beautiful. ❤

[@samrichert5234]

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.

[@lotus92620]

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

[@federicohernandez6076]

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

[@aksel_1]

Nice job! Only a true pianist can do this!

[@sandyno1089]

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

[@Liz-o3z7g]

Mi abuela tocaba este sublime tema. Imposible escuchar otro tipo de música 🎼🎹.

[@canvan8818]

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

[@RaiderLeo1]

My parents played their 78 all those years ago... all those goosebumps.

[@garyclark9807]

I played this in college. Central Methodist College Swinney Conservatory of Music. Piano Major. Loved playing this.

[@bernardovillanueva7135]

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

[@angelajohnson9812]

I definitely agree with your comment,it's helped to be save my Life,. Music is is a great healer...

[@paulmitchell359]

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.

[@ukestudio3002]

I think you mean ..Rachmaninov .

[@johncole3973]

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 .

[@SG19753]

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..

[@1213978]

wonderful so fantastic

[@mojo9761]

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.

[@kimmygirl4544]

Interesting you should say that it made you sad. I also felt sad and the beauty and power of the song made me cry. Listened to it on my mother's album so many times as a young child. Interesting how people share some of the same experiences and emotions while listening to such beautiful and complex music. ❤

[@Khatru39]

@@kimmygirl4544 Maybe we were feeling sad together

[@kokenene]

Llega a lo más profundo tanto del espíritu como del alma....❤❤❤❤❤

[@angelacooper2661]

I am a violist in an amateur orchestra and a violinist in a Church Music Group. Never had the opportunity to accompany a soloist playing this work, alas. Years ago on the radio there was an April Fool's Day joke about this piece- renamed the Walsall Concerto! I live near Walsall, so understand the connection! Very funny.

[@1947Rogerio]

Dear Chris, If you are an angel, where are your wings? 🌻🌼🌷🌹♥

[@andrebarberis4265]

Wow what a remarkable performance I salute your talent Maestro

[@brentlemons4129]

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

[@keithmajor4653]

Have just read Poland by James Michener so this is most appropriate to understanding the country and its culture and history Most enjoyable

[@c2190100]

Excelente composición de Addinsell.

[@Hobert-v4s]

There was a 45minute radio program called "candlelight and silver that included this music;!!

[@manueladelnilo6591]

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

[@thomasthompson6378]

This wonderfully melodramatic piece of music was composed for that also melodramatic movie, "Dangerous Moonlight" from 1942 (I think).

[@pavelmarkov8420]

There is so much Honesty in your performance! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

[@dekirkbride]

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

[@petesteuer6941]

Awesome piece of music

[@tinantmyriam1936]

Absolutely beautiful and great music 🎶 🎵 ❤

[@mariaisabelsanabriasalmon3641]

Esta melodia le encantaba a mi padre, recuerdo de cuando era pequeña después de la cena nos llevaba a escucharla, aún cuando me parecía un poco triste me gustó. Ya pasó muchol tiempo y se quedó en mi memoria y cada vez que puedo la escucho y me deleito con esta joya musical.

[@wiseal4827]

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.