Martins plays Ginastera - Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 28; Fourth Movement [Part 4/4] (First recording)

[@TheSmegPod]

welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends

[@arqrachelgusmao]

João Carlos Martins teve realmente uma vida única e excepcional!

[@CuzKatieSaysSo]

Wow. After hearing this I understand why Ginastera approved of Emerson Lake & Palmer's request to use his music. This is diabolical enough! Wow. 👁️👁️ are open! 👌

[@eliscasado6600]

Totally out of this planet. Thank you Keith Emerson for letting us know about this outstanding composer.

[@franciscowalker1151]

I used to hear Emerson, Lake & Palmer in my teens years...remember how electrifying was this track back them...I love this, the original version, too. I am proud Ginastera.

[@Hervinbalfour]

The benchmark for how this concerto should be played. PERIOD!!! No one to date has recorded this concerto with the speed, tension and fire Martins brought to this concerto. And to think he learned this concerto in less than two weeks!

[@Hervinbalfour]

I just bought a copy on EBay and am going to also purchase a back up. I too don't know what I would do if my first copy was damaged or lost. I started learning this concerto last year after years of threatening to do so. And after so many years this is still the standard I try to hold. I have heard many recording, most recently Barbara Nissman's who brings out the works full pallete of colors. But in the case of this work I will take wild drive and passion over color. lol When I hear the native music of Argentina I understand what Ginastera was going for. And Martins nailed it. I too have the De Marinis CD and while I like it it doesn't get the replay value the original recording holds in my home and car. I listen to the third movement all the time.

[@Hervinbalfour]

I started learning it but I ended up restudying Prokofiev's 3rd. But I recently pulled out the Ginastera again. So I will start working on it soon. I a bit swamped right now. I'm preparing for a recital and right now Scriabin's 5th and 7th piano sonata's have me losing my mind right about now. What I will say is that the third movement of Ginastera piano concerto is easily one of the HARDEST pieces of music I have ever learned in my life. (Along with that Scriabin 7th sonata). The clustered chords played at lightning speed make it crazy. I have large hands so it's a lot more difficult for than someone with smaller hands. And the timing vs the orchestra makes it even more difficult. But all in all it will be worth it. Although is may never happen in my lifetime i have always wish I could record Prokiev's third piano concerto and Ginastera's on the sane disc. ;-/

[@Hervinbalfour]

I meant to say fourth movement. My bad. Yes the fourth is the most brutal of the whole concerto. But the the whole thing is a technicaly difficult monster. It's one of the reasons it's rarely performed. It's not just difficult for the pianist but the orchestrah as well.

[@eriklindgren3323]

Barbara Nissman does this work justice and is without doubt my favorite interpreter for all of his piano works. She was a personal friend of Ginastera, and his third piano sonata is dedicated to her. Barbara's performances of this relentless last movement takes-no-survivors ... she really knows how to kick Classical butt!

[@fcamiola]

​@@HervinbalfourCool...good luck 8 years later! This is such a killer piece and I'm doing ELP all over again on vinyl.

[@sneddypie]

masterpiece, i say, absolute masterpiece

[@jb1980ist]

I love this movement and this recording is completely out of control (in a good way). What a rush!

[@Debussine]

How was I not aware of this man before!! How splendid!!

[@tarkushead]

Wow, this could have been the soundtrack of a suspense/action movie! This is the first time I've heard an orchestral version.

[@tracycapilot2002]

Wow!!!! I didn’t know that the actual Toccata was going to sound THAT great! Whoooo! Now that we’ve heard the original it makes one wonder how many other classical pieces were wandering around in Keith’s noggin that were ripe for ELP pickin’!! We’ll never know.

[@Danilocompositore]

Wa! non ci posso credere!! Mai sentito mai una esecuzione di un brano contemporaneo così appasionatamente!!

[@MechaStreisand1]

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

[@panacomposer]

I also recommend the recording by Tarrega and Batiz with the Ciudad de Mexico Symphony. Amazing! Also includes a magnificent version of the Harp Concerto. This is pretty darn amazing also! Thanks for posting! Martins, what a giant!

[@albcal6827]

Grande Maestro João Carlos Martins! O Melhor Intérprete de JSBach nos anos passados, do Brasil! ajc 2018

[@stevebrady1089]

Well put.

[@itsmusiiic]

Not Carl Palmer (he's a drummer). It's Keith Emerson who did an arrangement :)

[@thomasklempin542]

Magnifico!

[@noochinator]

Thanks for loading this, now I don't have to pay 20 bucks to buy the used LP on ebay!

[@GeorgesGondard]

Nice version along with the Tarrega and Batiz with the Ciudad de Mexico Symphony Orchestra, that is very well done too .

[@peterlunow]

amen to that !

[@Damuvader]

"classical music is relaxing"

[@itsmusiiic]

Thanks for the information ! ;)

[@bimbobalderas8176]

Óscar Tarrago with Enrique Batiz on Spotify, the best version, ever!!!!!

[@enkiduudikne]

Never bettered.

[@thomquick9655]

This piece was WAY too sophisticated for back in 1961 -- Ginastera's was ahead of his time = ELP translated this PERFECTLY. too

[@PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS]

pretty sure it's an average piece for 1961, when you already have cage and babbitt, xenakis

[@joaquinchidichimo7346]

Hi!!! Is there a chance to upload this recording in a full HD 1080 resolution video? Audio bitrate in youtube is tied to the video resolution, so the quality is quite bad. I need it for study pruposes!! Thanks!!

[@akimych23]

brother of Le Sacre du Printemps

[@sneddypie]

no

[@abraxasstone]

far, far from it

[@lionsmaine1238]

@@sneddypie yes

[@sneddypie]

@@lionsmaine1238 no

[@stevebrady1089]

Will this EVER be released on CD?

[@jonnlennox4176]

When will the cd version of this great performance be released?

[@zewensenpai]

damn son

[@nested_King]

Ronnie Spector on Harp...

[@asphaltmemories4597]

As much as I hate ELP and their pretentious brand of Progressive rock, they did have taste enough to pick an epic piece to cover, beautiful and haunting!

[@carvaiio]

Why don't you like them? Not judging, at all, I just have a sincere curiosity for your opinion.

[@Bill_Woo]

+Matthew Fauria I have the sharpest disdain for the impotent claims of pretentiousness by likely "wannabes" when they describe ELP, Golden Earring, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Yes's "Close To The Edge" or for that matter the song Free Bird. Let's see YOU write any one of their masterpieces. Not all of them; just one. Silence, in response? I thought so. How impotent you must feel.

[@asphaltmemories4597]

+Bill Woo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ congratulations you got me, I guess having a subjective opinion on the internet is liable to get me royally told. I just think Brain Salad Surgery was utter garbage compared to their previous albums.

[@Bill_Woo]

Maybe you meant differently, but it's generally a safe bet that when someone describes these huge, jaw dropping creations as "pretentious" it comes directly from jealousy and inadequacy. Maybe you're the exception. Masterworks like BSS are incredible not just for their masterworkship itself, but for their incredible attention to detail and precision. If anyone has ever spent months working on a work of art they know just what I mean - whether an art piece, piece of software, or a musical creation, or performance. As to Brain Salad Surgery, notwithstanding their earlier masterpieces, it's an incredible creation, and execution. I'd spend at least one nut to have done what they did with. And I'm a musician. (Edit) But of course, that's just my opinion.

[@carvaiio]

I'd like my question answered.

[@craigd7808]

Leave it to Emerson, Lake and Palmer to improve upon a classical masterpiece.

[@kokonssp]

very aggressive concerto

[@Skidoo22]

Sounds like Lalo Schifrin on drugs

[@theodorecurtin1975]

Not as good as its lacking gregs insane bass as well as his guitar solo

[@cgcomposer_]

This is the original piece though, not the ELP cover

[@gustavoborri2482]

Qué fea esa música. Hiere los oídos. Cómo pudo aquel hombre juntar tantas voluntades, recursos e instrumentos para lograr algo tan feo ? Habrá sido un desahogo intelectual ? Eso no aporta belleza.