Glazunov - Piano Concerto no.1 (Richter)

[@НадеждаБогданова-р7э]

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[@jennyjang5894]

What a majestic and charming performance.!

[@PentameronSV]

Wow. Never knew that Glazunov composed a stunning work like this. Thanks for this!

[@gerardbegni2806]

Glazunow is almost forgotten nowadays. The only piece a bit known is his concerto for violin in A minor. here, we have his first concerto for piano. It is a lyrical piece, with beautiful themes, and ingenious developments. As always for the istrument writing of Glazunow, it is very well written for the piano. The orchetra is not neglected, and is handled with the sense of colour of Glazunov. In short, a concerto that would deserve to be more often interpretated instead of the multiple reptitons of the 1st of Tchakovski or the 2nd of Rachmaninov.

[@steveegallo3384]

Same goes for the SECOND of Tschaikowsky (Pletnev's is superb)

[@gjeacocke]

This is what i try to do with sight reading neglected pieces. There is no support for me. Musicians should in fact be grateful i try and encourage diversity in concert programmes. What can you do. Like politics. If people do not support, the worst happens.

[@TJFNYC212]

This concerto is on the shelf where it belongs ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[@gjeacocke]

TJFNYC212 god may shelf you because you put a condition on people that you only help them if they satisfy the right conditions. People have different musical brains. You deny ppl music you remove the purpose of music being a community where people can enjoy it. If you force ppl to listen to your standard of music, you fail.

[@TJFNYC212]

@@gjeacocke Anyone can listen to whatever they want. The concerto, however, has been "shelved" and I am not going to unSHELVE it. You and other may.

[@thepianistq8]

I'm really sad that i never listened to this masterpiece before. Heaven......

[@vladmirhoopnagle1170]

To me, the brilliance of this piece happens at about 2:18, when he goes when he starts with an F octave and proceeds to resolve it in the last measure of the page showing, with a C octave. This totally caught me off guard. I was expecting an F sharp to be resolved with a G octave. Now most people would not even notice such a minor thing as that, but if you play it the way I've noted, you'll realized that most other composers would've taken the easy route, as I would have, and not even thought of the way Glasunov did. That to me shows a creative mind. But, all in all, I'd much rather listen to Rachmaninoff for the totality of his genius.

[@nickb7093]

The F# does resolve to a G in the very same measure... what are you talking about? It’s f#o to G7 to c. This is a common progression, that’s not the brilliance of the piece!

[@jennyjang5894]

So marvelous..the great Richter ~

[@МихаилЭман-в8е]

Безупречное исполнение. Сыграно и эмоционально, - местами даже "взахлёб", - и точно. Это подарок и автору, и слушателям.

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Браво гениально сыграл

[@OmarFernandesAly]

A gorgeous surprise, thank you for post it!

[@Xyriak]

Beautiful played as always.

[@ljiljanastanic9076]

Splendid

[@DEFINITIVEPENCHANT]

Incredible

[@albertodasilvajr2279]

BELO CONCERTO ROMÂNTICO. EXCELENTE INTERPRETAÇÃO, PORÉM A SONORIDADE É PRECÁRIA.

[@ronstriebig2749]

Astounding

[@dartel1981]

If the orchestra is Leningrad Philharmonic, then the conductor is Karl Eliasberg. The more popular recording (1952 as well) is recorded with Moscow Youth Orchestra conducted by Kondrashin.

[@G.v.5049]

Everything of his stunning compositions is in my classical music archive ‼👏

[@TheJamesalden]

Thank You!!...

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

The lovely 2nd Subject seems related to Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony (slow movement)

[@griselidis1]

Yes. Definitely. The concerto dates from just after the symphony.

[@steveegallo3384]

@@griselidis1 -- So Glazunow may have been influenced by Rakhmaninov....Not the other way around?

[@griselidis1]

@@steveegallo3384 Yes. I suppose so.

[@steveegallo3384]

@@griselidis1 -- No need for 'supposition'....the dates are etched in granite. Must I do ALL the heavy lifting here?

[@griselidis1]

@@steveegallo3384 Lol! Well...yes. It's just that musical compositions can be a long time in gestation and we know that Glazunov and Rachmaninov knew each other. It doesn't always follow that the work with the later date was influenced by the one with the earller date.

[@rogernortman9219]

I like the first movement a lot!

[@bobschaaf2549]

Sounds like it was recorded from the ship-to-shore on the Titanic.

[@TJFNYC212]

+fake-it LOL does sound under water

[@peterstarling]

Someone has cleaned this record up, I have an LP and it's a big difference.

[@germancardoso3587]

I wonder why these concertos are practically unknown, soloists are always obliged to play the traditional ones, there should be some kind of renewal in programmings but Europe seems to have stuck in the traditional concertos for piano and orchestra. Listening to them one and again is becoming a bit tiresome, although they are very good, but there are many others that pianists never play which are also quite good. There are many other composers in music history whose works are never played !!!!!!

[@donnytello1544]

I agree, especially ones like deliuss concerto and atterbergs concerto

[@DenisBonenfantclaveciniste]

it's a mater of money....a symphonic orchestra is expensive to run....and the people in charge of the programing of the music for every season wants to sell tickets and concerts series...so if they offer music thats is not well known by the pûblic, even if it's music of greta quality and interest like this concerto, they risk not selling as much tickets...that's unfortunate but money is the key..in the case of that recording it was done during the sovietic era while Russia was the USSR....and it's an orchestra of young people so I guess money was not a question...lol

[@ArturAvanesov80]

It might be just an odd similarity, but the theme of the first movement sounds too much like Gounod's "Poison Aria" from "Romeo and Juliet" (from the words "verse moi-meme ce breuvage")

[@JAMESLEVEE]

Who's conducting?

[@Jenny97LvB]

Kirill Kondrashin :)

[@JAMESLEVEE]

Thanks, dear. You can edit your description to include that information.

[@Jenny97LvB]

I've just did! Thank you for pointing that out :) Wish you a wonderful day!

[@dartel1981]

***** It's not Kondrashin! It's Kurt Sanderling with Leningrad Philharmonic. The recording with Kondrashin is quite different.

[@Natali180474]

@@dartel1981 Вы уверенны?

[@かなえくどう-b1y]

5:13～5:15 ???

[@黃懷槿-f4o]

While listening this piece , there is some moment I felt the music is composed by Rachmaninoff …

[@steveegallo3384]

Similar feeling when hearing Glière's 2nd Symphony.....

[@hsiehrachel]

拉赫鋼協還是比這位強不少的

[@steveegallo3384]

@@hsiehrachel -- 紅樓夢

[@hsiehrachel]

Stevee GALLO 什麼意思？

[@fyrexianoff]

@@hsiehrachel他发神经 xD

[@fyrexianoff]

Nobody seems to remember how Glazunov was drunk conducting the premiere of Rachmaninov's first symphony and how the performance was nearly disastrous that it destroyed Rachmaninov's early career as a composer. Nevertheless, Glazunov was an outstanding composer and obviously he is way older, and it's surprising that this concerto was composed so late in his life.

[@donnytello1544]

It was glazunov? Wow I didn’t even realize, what’ a connection

[@guboelgubo8912]

sadly that is the ONLY fact many people know about Glazunov and his 40 year-long friendship with Rachmaninoff

[@leepost5973]

Some people have commented about the poor quality of the recording. I echo that sentiment but must add that the piano is grossly out of tune as well! Why put the time into such a lovely performance and not take the time to have the piano tuned!? I really enjoy the piece itself, however.

[@АртемийСталобыть]

Нежняк такой, лирика.

[@donnytello1544]

This concerto sounds like rachmaninoffs second symphony, some of the motifs in the second symphony were even taken from here

[@guboelgubo8912]

You are correct

[@hyukjunsohnviolin]

I hear a lot of Rachmaninoff

[@s1earle]

Even after repeated hearings I can only say that this concerto has nowhere near the charm of his 2nd one - perhaps a waste of the great Richter's time and effort...

[@MrMowky]

9 people have absolutely no taste.

[@pokerandphilosophy8328]

Not at all. They're thumbs up from Australia.

[@snabeyratne]

This is fine concerto but the piano sounds really crappy. What a pity!

[@MrInterestingthings]

Is anything as glorious as his violin concerto - this sounds like the rhetoric of standard post-romantic concerto. Richter recorded or played this publicly several times -learned all of this and the orchestra parts as any conscientious pianist does . Did Godowsky ever play it in public ? Why is all I can ask .I'd like to know how many other pianists up until the 1950's ever bothered with it. as a kid I thought the Rubinstein no.4 was a fantastic musicalpiece. Simple less trying to be profound fermenting melodies a la Liszt. but hearing Hofmann in anything can make interest out of anything. It does sound natural but uninspired mostly like paint by the numbers . Thankyou for downloading this score . Maybe over time I will come back to this period in music prefer Boulez et. al. Too grand is romantic period mostly. Brahms , Franck few others did it best .

[@milton3204]

John e martin III "Too Romantic" is your criticism? Well like Jan Sibelius once said, don't listen to the critics. A statue has never been erected in their honor. :D

[@MatzMatz11]

Well said Milton.....Couldn't have phrased that better. What a rant from that person John...doesn't make much sense to me..

[@ChopinClassics]

In my twenties and I still think Rubinstein's fourth piano concerto is a masterpiece. I prefer it infinitely to Listz's piano concertos, in fact.

[@nickb7093]

GreenEyes Mexico It makes sense to me. The reason this concerto didn’t survive he test of time is probably because it is too conventional (for its period), but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. It’s just not outstanding, certainly not as outstanding as something like Brahms 2 or Ravel G, both of which broke the mold more, which made them more immortal than the Glazunov!