John Field - Piano Concerto No. 5 "L’Incendie par l’Orage" (1815)

[@monicabrondo4149]

Que hermoso escuchar una obra de tal excelencia de Jhon Field!!!!...El creador del Nocturno cómo forma musical!!!...

[@cormaclevinthal3496]

John Field is a superb composer of music!

[@ferpj6489]

You always post mind-blowing music I've never encountered before. For that, thank you so much.

[@bartjebartmans]

Thanks!

[@mohammedakram7297]

One of the most fantabulous piano concertos ever composed!

[@farrelpermadi5471]

This is astonishing! This is one of my favorite Piano Concertos by John Field! Thank you!!

[@ulifischer2369]

Danke !!!, wenn man Field hört, dann fragt man sich, warum jemand auf die Idee kommen könnte, die Welt hätte sich seit 1815 "weiterentwickelt"...einfach wundervolle Ideen, Virtuosität und kein Verlust an Griffigkeit, immer interessant und abwechselungsreich

[@zeenohaquo7970]

Wow. Love this lightning inspired piece. We had plenty of that last week from cyclone Fay.

[@richardbetton-foster3899]

Field's concerto take a lot of beating. They should be in the wider repertory of most orchestras.

[@mr-wx3lv]

Have to say that is fine music. I could hear hints of Chopin and Weber throughout.

[@bartjebartmans]

Chopin was only 5 years old. You mean Chopin has hints of Field. Weber is possible, but the kind of hookish thematic use comes straight from his teacher Clementi. Although it seems to me that Field was much more influenced by Irish and Scottish folk songs. The piano parts seems to improvise over those and shows Field's genius to knit those seemingly unrelated, incoherent, at first sight merely technical, passages together.

[@MiguelTicona]

@@bartjebartmans Chopin was influenced by Field. Chopin ever wrote anything about Field?

[@bartjebartmans]

@@MiguelTicona Chopin had a curious jealousy of Field: "...in a word, finished artists, take lessons from me and couple my name with that of Field. In short, if I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks." Chopin stole John Field's concept of the nocturne and pretended it was his creation. When Chopin heard Field play he was highly critical and conceited saying that Field had a sickroom talent.” It was John Field who aptly said of Chopin, "He was dying all his life." There was no love lost between those two.

[@krzysztofkurylek5594]

13 years old Chopin played this Piano Concerto in Warsaw

[@wrrichardson]

@@bartjebartmans This is really interesting--do you have a source? I'd like to read more.

[@alimohammedkurdishcomposer9893]

Zor jwana 💐

[@MrInterestingthings]

So interesting to see what others were doing while Beethoven was alive and before Berlioz,Schumann,Chopin,Moscheles ,Kalkbrenner . One wonders could people recognize the differences really . Beethoven 3,4,5 are so much more compared to Hummel(who really bores me and worse the muckof Steibelt and the rest . I was amazed to hear one of the weighty ,stupendous grave Czerny's piano concerto . Field living in Russia is really interesting . The wealth of the 18th century Russians was a marvel to Europeans stifled by newer more liberal monarchies ,law, taxes etc.He could do as he pleased there I imagine .One sees why Chopin was such a sensation compared to what was around . Schumann's Violin concerto ? What can one say ?

[@christianwouters6764]

It's a Pastorale on speed. Complete with thunderstorm and rural dance afterwards.

[@jimmywalsh6701]

👍

[@sergiosaucedo5834]

Holy cow I didn’t expect a gong strike lol

[@brendangordon2168]

Gives the tympanist a bit extra to do

[@Symphonic76]

Alright, I don’t get it. Why does it say Steibelt’s piano concerto was composed in 1798 when the title should reference the Napoleonic campaign of 1815?

[@bartjebartmans]

This is about nature, a storm, not war. Not sure where you get that idea from. The whole concerto has a pastoral feel, that's what the info refers to.

[@Symphonic76]

Okay... mhmm, it seems to be fake. According to a booklet which appeared in the chandos release of Field’s piano concerto, there is no mention of any references to the fires of Moscow, only that it is made in reference to Steibelt’s earlier concerto “The Storm” from 1798. The author suggests the relation between the two works is indebted to a rivalry between the two neutralized Russian composers, and the reason for Field naming the work “The Blazing Storm” (according to Chandos) was to emphasize a concerto of superior dramatic proportions. Steibelt never composed a concerto called l'incendie de moscou, so that part is most likely just made up.

[@bartjebartmans]

Thanks! It is very possible though that there was a rivalry and somehow it spilled over in this composition. Where there is smoke there is fire. Field had also a stormy relationship with Clementi to say the least.

[@MiguelTicona]

Chopin was 5 years old

[@SILAS-cb9xl]

The second movement looks like Pathetique 2nd Movement by Beethoven

[@brendangordon2168]

The nickname looks like it means “The Burning of the Orange”

[@bartjebartmans]

Your comment can be read in many ways.

[@jamesonrichards5105]

8:56

[@zavilov]

It is to bad he didnt take that volti ad lib in the adagio. What a weird movement.