Hummel Piano Concerto No 2 in A Minor

[@BytomGirl]

I have loved this concerto for years. About 20 years ago I drove with my late husband on a country road in the hills without a soul around, it was already dark, this concerto started playing on the radio. We pulled off the road, reclined the seats, opened skylight and holding hands listened enchanted looking at stars. This memory will always stay with me and will always remind me o a beautiful moment with my husband.

[@adityatyagi4009]

Thanks for sharing. Touching.

[@agseu3668]

Well done.

[@stanislavmilovanovic1732]

Bravo

[@sethjacob797]

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[@allenford9197]

@Seth Jacob Yup, have been using Flixzone for since november myself =)

[@johnpotter8039]

I grew up with classical music in the house in the 1950s. I discovered Hummel in the 1960s, listening to KFAC Radio in Los Angeles. I found LPs and played them over and over. This is the consummate Romantic concerto. I will never forget it. At 74, I can still hum along with it.

[@pmmdrt]

Hummel and Van Beethoven were very good friends. At the funeral of Van Beethoven he was one of the bearers of the coffin. During his time he was one of the most important composers. Thanks to KZbin he is coming back now!

[@richardallen3810]

Hummel never gets the credit he deserves. This piece is as good as Beethoven's early concerti and the introduction alone is so elegant and we'll defined. Marvelous the lesser known composers can finally get their works out on You Tube.

[@kernowoggie]

Hummel was a pupil of Mozart and there are passages in his music that seem to echo his teachers technique and style. Nevertheless, Hummel's style is essentially all his own. I love the introduction to the first movement of this concerto, a real delight, so simple, powerful yet at the same time so charming. It is reintroduced later in the movement, almost pulling us all back down to earth again after an interlude of true drama. More please, this is great music!

[@alejandrodmsosa]

yes agree..orchestal passages and riffs..

[@canman5060]

I think he was only 10 years old when Mozart took him as his student and also provided board and lodging for him.

[@stephenpotter4063]

Hummel’s influence on Chopin is quite obvious just as Beethoven’s influence on Hummel is quite obvious. Just imagine what the piano works of Mozart, Beethoven, Paisiello, Salieri, Clementi and the rest of their contemporaries would have been like if they had access to pianos tuned to equal temperament, their works covering all or at least most of the 88 keys as Hummel’s piano works do which are still amazing to this day!

[@peterh9212]

Thanks for posting. The Hyperion recording that made Hough an international star and re-awkened interest in Hummel.

[@cgmarlowe777]

It was probably in the late 80s when I first bought the recording of Stephen Hough playing Hummel's(when they were first released) concertos 1 & 2. I loved them both. Better than Chopin. I listened to them every night in bed when I went to sleep. Thank you Jesus.

[@jacquesuzi3428]

So beautiful it makes me cry. Reminds me of old souvenirs with my hungarian grand-father. Just re-discovered it after 30+ years with a life hazard (heard it at the dentist). This music is pure emotion and grace to me.

[@christianwouters6764]

It must be said that this concerrto is the very best work Hummel ever composed in his entire carreer. Most of his other output doesn't come near to the greatness of this concerto.

[@candrews4869]

The b minor concerto is it's equal in my view. And of its kind the trumpet concerto is practically sui generis. Hummel got rich and famous playing piano. Writing music just didn't pay the way performing did.

[@aydin84000]

Superbe concerto! Merci pour ce bon moment!

[@brozors]

This is such good music. It is a pity that this concerto hardly ever gets played in concerts.

[@Kacperlogin]

I didn't know Hummel was so talented....exceptional concerto, very classy.

[@samuelzamora2879]

Lo vengo escuchando en la radio universidad santa maria de chile antes que aparecieran los telefonos celulares y ahora los escucho con mayor razon son muy hermosos talvez melancolicos y con pasion los felicito les doy las gracias. Muy hermosos me relajan y tranquilizan. Gracias.

[@willetweeks2553]

When I was about 15, my grandfather put this concerto on the turntable and challenged me to identify the composer. (This was a recording by the estimable Artur Balsam, on the The Record Hunter’s in-house label - how many music lovers today remember that terrific, connoisseur-staffed emporium on Fifth Avenue, open “from 10:00 a.m. to the stroke of midnight”?) Inevitably, I stumbled badly - Chopin was the closest I could come, but I was familiar with both concertos and knew there wasn’t a third. Too discursive for Beethoven, and obviously not one of the Five. And so forth. When my grandfather revealed the truth, I felt that the challenge had been unfair - how was I supposed to know about a composer that no one had ever heard of, and whose music no one had ever had a chance to listen to? But I have been a fan ever since. We owe a great debt to Stephen Howe for having devoted so much energy and talent to bringing us superb modern recordings of this and the other concertos, all huge technical challenges, as well as to the Beaux Arts Trio and to all too few others for championing significant parts Hummel's prodigious output. Why this one, in particular, has not entered the standard repertory is a mystery - perhaps not enough virtuosos care to invest in such a formidably challenging work from a still, alas, obscure composer. But still: it has moments of real beauty, and all the crowd-pleasing flourishes that bring audiences to their feet after even routine performances of comparable concertos by composers from Chopin through Grieg, so why do this and at least two or three of the others not show up regularly on concert schedules?

[@shirleyray763]

so beautiful, I love listening to it!

[@valeriykhasyanov9011]

Восторг и наслаждение.Можно слушать бесконечно ❤❤❤

[@cgmarlowe777]

Hough said that recording them was a baptism of fire. They were written for pianos with a much lighter touch when they compose back in the early 1800s. Today's pianos require a much stronger touch. Thank God he did them anyway.

[@carloslijoicarcano]

Its very nice and I think that is very difficult, something for pianist as Horowitz, Gulda, Richter or Argerich!!!!

[@candrews4869]

As I recall from a brief coversation I had with him a very long time ago --he'd never remember me--it was a bit of a miracle the project saw completion. Getting the level of virtual perfection we all hear was a huge challenge...getting all those beastly passages right...no clams...even with retakes, was a near miracle. Hough is a hell of a pianist.

[@beejaybath]

Delightful. I've never listened to anything by Hummel before and this was certainly a treat. Just having an afternoon listening to the famous pianists and happened to find this. To me, it has many Chopinesque traits about it. Very, very enjoyable. Thanks for posting this

[@danielpincus221]

Maybe Chopin had some Hummelesque moments musicaux...

[@bobmartin7399]

try his Mandolin Concerto

[@beejaybath]

Just tried it, Bob Martin. I thought it sounded as if the soloist was struggling. There was a lot of fret buzz. So all round, quite pretty, but not up to any comparison with this, I'm afraid. (Just one man's opinion).

[@bobmartin7399]

Find a better performance. :-)

[@RobinLSL]

Chopin was a fan of Hummel in his youth, and modelled his own concertos after Hummel's, so your comparison is definitely appropriate.

[@pswill820]

What a "galant" march Hummel employs in the first movement! It's a masterpiece!

[@antoniosilva7083]

ps will, bem dito: galante. Mas com sons de Eyberl.

[@franciscocorzo8447]

...Hummel, genial, genial...inigualable maestría filosófico-musical.

[@julialin3874]

How beautiful & marvels of today's you tube, we can hear almost any lovely& long forgotten music. Thanks.

[@localvoid6753]

Nice and robust performance of this beautiful and technically challenging piece. Bravo, maestro!

[@guygelinas8712]

beautiful piano Concerto from Hummel

[@bluedutch01]

Oh my! The pianistic virtuosity displayed by Stephen Hough here is absolutely stunning, is it not? What a glorious experience in sound. Can anyone tell me how and why this work is not way ahead of Beethoven and Mozart in the concert halls of the world?

[@danielrodriguez9630]

El mejor alumno de Mozart

[@carlosgonzalezalatorre8132]

Excelsa obra, uno de mis conciertos favoritos para piano.....

[@angelgalvez9461]

Me gusta de Hummel especialmente este concierto.

[@GIOIS01]

I love this concerto!!!

[@carloslijoicarcano]

me too, its excelent.....

[@pianolessonsboulder1894]

Echoes of Mozart, as well as a precursor to the Romantic movement that was soon to follow. I love it. This concerto deserves to be better known.

[@interqward1]

The single best set of performances I have ever seen by any actor/actors/performers/writers/camera people ever, was in a short movie written by John Mortimer, called 'Married Alive' starring Robert Culp and Diana Rigg, broadcast in 1970 as an episode of ITV Saturday Night Theatre - a live performance filmed as a play, one take, with someone playing bits and pieces from the above Hummel Concerto, together with slices of a Chopin Polonaise, on a studio piano. And, to my knowledge, no copy of the episode remains in existence today. But all who watched it offer much the same review. And the music was as much responsible for the eventual over all effect as all the other elements - which were utterly superb; in fact unparalleled. And anyone who thinks Robert Culp was not a TOTALLY top-line actor knows absolutely nothing.

[@23crosspath]

thank you so much hummel and hough

[@BenSouthwood]

It took me a long time to learn about this composer and not a moment to soon.

[@petergeorge6692]

Pretty fancy piano passages. Beautiful music!

[@basedddog]

SUPERB. Absolutely excellent. Thanks for making this.

[@andreapiupiano3343]

So beautiful! Is Chopin's language... First time I listen to this treasure of such a genius as Hummel!

[@antoniosilva7083]

Andrea Almeida Hayek, Chopin veio depois. Esta obra foi composta no tempo de Beethoven e é bastante original, embora com repescagem de sons de Eyberl no ritornello do primeiro movimento.

[@richardhellgren]

It´s because Chopin studied Hummels music.

[@barbarafalender1920]

Andrea Almeida Hayek about:blank

[@pydbl]

I am going to see him play this in April in Berlin. So excited!! :D

[@Steve_K2]

Somehow it's only recently that I've "discovered" Hummel. Started with the mandolin concerto. Then the horn concerto. Now this. Hard to choose a favorite, though probably this piano concerto. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@davidgleba3832]

I recommend his Bassoon Concerto in F major!

[@lilianagreve6194]

Theo best of Paganini

[@annabuchenhorst]

On my way to hear Stephen H tonight in Stockholm. Looking forward to hear him play this !!!

[@Ottozimerman]

Brillantíssim, excels, inefable!!!!!

[@ramonmascorda2232]

jo penso igual:excels pero poc conegut Himmel

[@Qee7en]

This concerto is bae.

[@Egobaldo]

The Purple Moonwalker what is bae?

[@Qee7en]

Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz Eh... like 'great', 'the best' or better 'my favorite'.

[@Egobaldo]

Thanks.

[@CziffraTheThird]

Its babe.

[@joeboyle5864]

..as opposed to d.o.a.? lol

[@korococo]

thank you for the blog!!

[@dorondiamant8353]

Outstanding!

[@MyMusic0201]

A great lesson in hummelity for other composers ;-)

[@matthewcoldicutt5951]

Bravo!

[@antoniosilva7083]

MyMusic0201, Hehehe!

[@BehradDavoudi]

you have good sense of humel

[@pauliberg3492]

BEAUTIFUL-- MORE PLEASE..

[@stephenpotter4063]

Hummel must have had access to pianos tuned to equal temperament, new during his time, as his concerto seems to cover almost all 88 keys on the modern piano with near-perfect intonation. Well done!

[@ernshaw78]

I think both John Field and Johann Nepomuk Hummel influenced Chopin the most. I think the way this concerto flows is so amazing. My ears might like it more than the Mozart piano concertos.This work should be performed much more than it is.

[@carolvandervlucht8601]

so beautiful...another one for me to love

[@elisabethsteltzlen]

J'adoooooore !!!!! Bel Enregistrement !!!!!!

[@victoriaa.azpuru6023]

Moi aussi! Tu as raison!!!

[@williamthorpe2103]

I'm playing this at the moment

[@CarlosMagnoMLima]

Awesome composer!

[@batroni]

I feel both ashamed and guilty of not having listened to a single piece of Hummel until today and I have been listening to classical music for years....This piano concerto is out of this world and yes I can also recognise patterns from Mozart's style in it. It's interesting that Mozart inspired Hummel and Hummel inspired Chopin. I love Chopin's music but I cannot see a direct link between his and Mozart's styles. Chopin was so fond of Mozart that he wished his music to be played at his funeral...

[@josedorotheoarangoarambula9439]

I agree, I hear Beethoven sometimes. They have influenced themselves (Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Hummel, Schumann, Schubert etc..) in a very subtil way and constructive way. What would be this world without them... I prefer not think to that :-)

[@seniorosity68]

Hummel obviously composed this concerto for a modern 88-key equal-temperament-tuned piano. Just think of what Mozart's piano concertos would have been like if Mozart had access to this kind of piano instead of a fortepiano which was all that was available to him and his contemporaries in their day.

[@Egobaldo]

Do not compare. Just enjoy!

[@antoniosilva7083]

Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz. Bem dito, apenas ouvir sem fazer comparações! Desde logo porque é surpreendentemente original.

[@themusicalgerbil192]

Hummel is awesome.

[@henriklarsen_art]

There is no reason for Hummel to punch below his weight, in regards to notoriety - he is easily on par with Beethoven. His piano concert are real original and has very much their own style.

[@MrStefdj]

+Henrik Larsen Chopin really learned so much from Hummel. Here for is so similar to E minor concert, even more impressive in regards to technical demands...

[@sousafan100]

great music - I wouldn't expect anything less from hummel though- thanks ab

[@TheMightyFork_]

Virgin?

[@jorgegiulianelli9541]

Sencillamente maravilloso

[@antoniosilva7083]

jorge giulianelli, simplesmente maravilhoso.

[@onceltom]

Foe me the best work by Hummel is the Potpurie on melodies by Mozart. Even though he didn't invent the tunes the way he handles them with the viola is brilliant. He was Mozart's star pupil.

[@brooksiefan]

The language Chopin inherited for his concertos.

[@AhimSaah]

@enigma Chopin's language is directly inherited from Hummel, this is a fact. He of course developed it and made it more poetic. Chopin's piano concerti are a direct copy of Hummel's A minor in terms of structure, piano technic, ornamentation and melodies. Chopin had on his repertoire 6 concertos by Hummel when he was 18, that says it all. The fact that his musical language derives from Hummel's make Chopin a no lesser composer. All the greats learnt from other greats.

[@AhimSaah]

@enigma I said he did go his own path. But that doesn't change the fact that his 2 concertos are direct copies of Hummel. Look at the 1st theme of Hummel's A minor and compare it to 1st themes of both F minor and E minor of Chopin - almost the same. So, all I'm saying is that Chopin learnt directly of Hummel and occasionally copied something. This doesn't mean he wasn't a genius.

[@carloslijoicarcano]

Otro gran compositor opacado por uno de los fenómenos de la época que le tocó vivir, Beethoven, una situación similar a la de Mozart y Salieri y tantas otras contraposiciones en la historia de la música, igual que lo ocurrido con muchos de los sinfonistas, en las que la brillantez o las situaciones político/sociales de los muy grandes impedían el reconocimiento de verdaderos artistas......bastará ver la cantidad de versiones grabadas de los conciertos para piano de los más conocidos y los de estos artistas que de casualidad se consiguen escuchar por KZbin, al menos en Argentina, si alguien sabe dónde puedo conseguir las obras completas por favor me podría pasar el dato. Gracias.

[@carloslijoicarcano]

+Abad Briman Gracias por tus conceptos acerca de mi comentario, pero creo que lo que expresé es lo que más o menos pensamos todos los que conocemos algo de música, quizá y digo quizá para no ser demasiado contundente, los más grandes compositores no sean más que pares de tantos otros que no alcanzaron sus famas....esto me hace acordar a los grandes cantantes (amo la lírica) y repentinamente en un concierto popular o un concurso de TV, aparece un/a tapado/a que nos hace acordar a las grandes voces del pasado que tanto alabamos....es cierto que un Caruso, un Bjoerling o una Callas no nacen todos los días, pero que siempre en algún lugar del mundo hay alguna voz portentosa desconocida, de eso no me caben dudas.........y desafortunadamente no los concemos.......... Así pasa con los músicos que nos gustan y acerca de los cuales hablamos........cuántas grabaciones de sus conciertos u obras solistas hay......apenas unas pocas de hummel,............de field hace años que busco y no encuentro, cierto es que llevamos acá varios años de privaciones de importación, pero ahora que se han abierto, sigo sin encontrar nada interesante, amazon poco tiene, si alguna editorial alguien conoce que pueda conseguir algo, lo agradeceré infinitamente porque ni siquiera en Feltrinelli en Italia pude lograrlo. Cordial saludo

[@carloslijoicarcano]

Dad a Dios lo que es de Dios y al Cesar lo que es del César.....posiblemente Bach (a quien no adhiero en el 90% de su obra seguramente debido a mi ignorancia...) fue y será para muchos el top top de los compositores y para otros muchos no......

[@GustavoGarcia-gz4su]

Tiene mucha razón. En mi caso el mas grande sera siempre Gustav Mahler

[@sebastianmartini5520]

Mozart?? Beethoven?? Bach?? Mahler??? El genio es Chopin. Quien con mas profundidad en la composicion?? Nadie ha descubierto mas el alma humana en un instrumento que el polaco Federico.

[@zambesi]

Très grand compositeur tombé dans l'oubli (sauf son concerto pour trompette) mais qu'on commence à redécouvrir avec immense bonheur !

[@Rickriquinho]

This is real music!

[@AntonAndreevComposer]

Amazing!

[@danielemanuelb]

Me as well! :-) So happy that they've programmed it!

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

I doubt there’s a single video of these piece where the codas of the outer movements are not the two most-replayed parts of the video.

[@neelsdp1]

wow again!

[@alvarogarciabarbosa3199]

Que similitud con Chopin! Si no conociera los dos de él creería que fuese suyo este de Hummel.

[@ponpon1319]

musique tres ressemblante à M ozart et debut Beethoven.

[@antoniosilva7083]

piquin maggy, talvez uma renovação de tímpanos venha a calhar...

[@adriatorras8077]

Qué pedazo de final

[@askenderiii2374]

Concerto N° 2 in A Minor: Op. 85

[@DREAM284]

..and how about the pianist then? What a talent and yet not getting the praise he obviously deserves. I cannot imagine how many hours he practiced before recording this wonderful performance, well done everyone, and thanks a lot.

[@Chipsomedip]

It’s Stephen Hough, it’s in the description.

[@localvoid6753]

There should not be any ads in the middle of classical pieces, even between movements, only in the very beginning. Moreover, the 2-nd and 3-rd movements are performed "attacca", i.e. without break, so the second ad is equivalent to ads in the middle of a movement. Will stop regular listening this video, replace like with dislike, and look for other recordings of this wonderful concerto

[@TheMightyFork_]

Anyone else hears Mozart 20 in d m??????!!!!

[@solomonal-harbi8788]

no, this is Piano Concerto No 2 in A Minor for Hummel ^^

[@mydogskips2]

Yes, I do actually, now that you mention it. Both are great works of course, they wonderfully showcase the piano in all its brilliant splendor, when played by a virtuoso like Stephen Hough, such as we have here. I hear some precursors of Saint-Saens as well, in some parts.

[@ExTremoK]

i heard Rachmaninoff lol

[@Juraberg]

🎹👍🏼

[@Natalia-ho6xy]

20'04" fav part

[@mrzabalight]

Late classic early romantic i would say

[@arrangeur55]

Difficult to believe that this is by Hummel. I`ll purchase the score to check it.

[@charlottewhyte9804]

love this, I believe he was a pupil of beethoven,is this true,music sounds similar

[@antoniosilva7083]

Charlotte Whyte, a pupil of Mozart and a friend of Beethoven.

[@charlottewhyte9804]

thank you@@antoniosilva7083

[@AntonAndreevComposer]

Similarity exists, but it's just a tonal plan.

[@ZacPB189]

Wow...this puts his Trumpet Concerto to shame.

[@tramrat]

I think Hummel put his best creativity and technique into this concerto and the No.3. The rest of the seven seem repetitive and lack the inventiveness.

[@johnhijeck5461]

you surely are not listening to Hummel

[@geraldine6822]

altos gays los que le dieron dislike

[@Eliazer]

I can't believe Liszt played this when he was 11