Hans Pfitzner - Piano Concerto Op. 31 (audio + sheet music)

[@krugos1978]

Very nice concerto, my favorite movements were the middle ones. Thanks for sharing!

[@PentameronSV]

0:25 - I. Pomphaft mit Kraft und Schwung - bedeutend 17:12 - II. _Heiterer Satz._ Ziemlich schnell, in einheitlich atemlosem Zeitmaß 24:07 - III. Äusserst ruhig, versonnen, schwärmerisch 33:58 - IV. Rasch, ungeschlacht launig

[@ronaldbwoodall2628]

Three nights ago I listened, enraptured again, to my cd of this amazing concerto, with Volker Banfield and conductor Werner Andreas Albert. It's joyful emotions brought me to tears (not for the first time), and I knew that this is the most powerful piano concerto I've ever heard, and my favorite one. I was hoping here to experience something reasonably similar in an uncut performance. Banfield's employs a sizable cut but it is also vitally alive, dramatically gripping, and exhilarating - all the things this performance lacks. Pianist Tzimon Barto seems to have no feeling for Pfitzner's idiom, and Christoph Eschenbach's anemic, slow, soporific, labored view of the score makes it seem like a different work altogether. (I have no idea whether their performance is uncut, but I don't care now; I'm just glad I have Banfield's to return to - often.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Check out Mozkowski opus3

[@zalba5710]

Nice someone appreciates this piece. It deserves it.

[@pierreboland8910]

Une belle découverte. Pas mal d'idées très moderne pour un compositeur qui s'affichait comme réactionnaire dans le style musical.

[@davidrehak3539]

Hans Pfitzner:Esz-dúr Zongoraverseny Op.31 1.Pomposamente con potenza e quantitá di moto - Molto piú lento,molto sensibile,pesante e serio - Tempo I 00:25 2.Piúttosto vivace,in un tempo senza respiro uniforme 17:12 3.Estremamente calmo,pensoso,nerastro 24:07 4.Vivace,rozzo,estroso 33:59 Tzimon Barto-zongora Drezdai Állami Zenekar VezényelChristian Thielemann

[@Kobzar3374]

I remembered that I had listened to the "scherzo" many years ago, and I liked it. The whole is very interesting as well. Thank you for sharing!

[@RedZed1974]

More absolutely brilliant unknowns!!!! God I love you, youtube

[@juv7026]

We making it back to the camp with this one 💨💨💨

[@jorgealbertobaron2]

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[@JAMESLEVEE]

Pfitzner was not Jewish. He disagreed with Hitler over a Jewish author when Hitler visited him while he was recuperating from gallblader surgery in Munich around the time of the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler thought he was a Jew, although there was abundant evidence he wasn't. Pfitzner was never aware of why he and his music were being suppressed for years, until someone enlightened him that Hitler had it out for him.

[@thenameisgsarci]

OK, then, thank you for clearing that up. :)

[@helenamarie4337]

@@thenameisgsarci Pfitzner was antisemitic and even called himself that!!

[@kevinhill4674]

Helena Marie , if more people were well read they would be too. That is unless they agree with America being Israel’s bitch. AIPAC owns every American politician except for the few brave who point out the crimes against humanity perpetrated by "god’s chosen".

[@Listenerandlearner870]

@@helenamarie4337 in 1920 Pfitzner wrote "Whilst there is a dividing line in Germany between Jews and non-Jews, there is a much greater dividing line between the nationally German and the international (I e supporters of Soviet Communism). I myself know quite a number of Jews, and indirectly know of many others whose feelings are as clearly national and honorably as one would ever desire, and who have certainly fully fulfilled their duty at home during the war I e WW1. And conversely, sadly there are far too many Germans in general who feel more international, and feel even more anti-national towards Germany than foreigners and enemies do." Also it can be good to read Michael Kater's book on composers during the Nazi era. Pfitzner defended individual Jews at a time when he could have been sent to a camp for having done so. He lost friends in the camps. After he and his wife were bombed out in Munich whilst in the basement of the house he went insane and Nazi and went into residential care and during this period said very bad things. His life was very tragic and affected by intergeneratiinal mental illness i suspect. He lost all his offspring, 2 sons to suicide, 1 on the eastern front and one was put in an assylum having suffered meningitis related brain damage. John Williamson's book covers alot of the soirces. I will not defend anything bad that Pfitzner did and said, most of which happened close to the end of his life after he had become severely mentally ill. Earlier in his life he had worked with Mahler and Bruno Walter.

[@Listenerandlearner870]

He defended Jewish friends and mentored Jewish musicians and lost alot of conducting and lecturing work because of this at a time when people were killed for less.

[@michaelfischer5800]

hm, what shall I say... but apart from the third movement with memories of Mahler at his best, there is some kind of.. lack... of something... missing...

[@amj.composer]

interesting :D

[@korbiniankarrasch2522]

11:40

[@kafenwar]

This piece reminds me of old, rotting German furniture thrown out on the sidewalks.

[@pmarq32]

Dave Hurwitz's review pretty much sums up my opinion of this piece: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn3bc4OqgtiBr8U

[@HarryToeface]

Heil music!

[@vesteel]

Fun fact Hitler called Pfitzner "a jewish rabbi" at some point

[@PhilipDaniel]

Webern initially welcomed the Anschluss, and Berg supported the Austrofascists under Dollfuss.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

@@PhilipDaniel may they both rest safely in Oblivion.

[@PhilipDaniel]

@@andrewpetersen5272 I'm Jewish and yet I like Pfitzner, Berg, and Webern, so whatever. I mean, I'm not going to wish oblivion on Eisler and Dessau and Wagner-Regeny although I hate communism nearly as much as I hate fascism.

[@Cosimo-composer]

the piano part of this piano concerto is too lacking in dazzling skills,as clumsy as a turtle crawling tightly against the floor. this is a fatal flaw

[@ciararespect4296]

Truly awful . It has dazzling skills though but rubbish

[@zalba5710]

The piano part is well written. This particular pianist is just really awful

[@tedpiano]

I have nothing nice to say about this piece.

[@neilsaunders6009]

That's because you're an idiot.

[@zalba5710]

That surely doesn’t say anything nice about you.

[@telephilia]

A dreary drag. Yes, there are bad German composers.

[@neilsaunders6009]

There are also bad listeners from all around the world.

[@owengette8089]

Pfitzner himself isn’t a bad composer, even if this concerto hasn’t astonished any listeners. His operas are first-rate

[@zalba5710]

@@owengette8089 you can find people in the comments who absolutely adore this piece.