A.Ginastera Piano Concerto No.1 "Toccata"

[@ullihoffmann980]

ELP brought me here. I don't regret it.

[@josephmonaco4503]

What beautiful emotion in her heart towards Keith Emerson...

[@rapskallion]

Thanks to Emerson Lake and Palmer I rhoroughly enjoyed this. Had it not been for their rendition I may have dismissed it part way through if on the odd chance I would have even been here.

[@yoichim5915]

Same here

[@wam44]

This is my first listen to the orchestral version of this. I have listened to ELP's rendition countless times and it is is no less stirring....

[@exitthelemming145]

Kudos to Emerson for his perseverance after the composer initially refused permission for ELP to cover the piece on the Brain Salad Surgery album. Keith and his manager Stewart Young had to fly out to meet Ginastera and his wife at their Swiss home and play a tape recorded band version of the music before he acquiesced. So impressed was the composer with ELP's adaptation that he added his endorsement in the sleeve notes thus: "Keith Emerson has beautifully caught the mood of my piece"

[@grantman64]

Check out Doug Helvering's reaction/analysis to side 1 of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery, which includes their adaptation of Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 1 "Toccata": kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5qtiHWonseCgNE. Doug explained in his commentary that after ELP had recorded Toccata they realized they hadn't gotten the rights, and Ginastera's publisher refused their request. Emerson apparently visited Ginastera to ask permission to release the track. Ginastera agreed and commented that ELP's performance had captured his intent in a way no one else had. If synths, Hammond organs, amplification, and mad percussion (some synthesized) had been available to Ginastera in his day, I think he would have produced something very similar to ELP's adaptation. Toccata is a fearsome, mad work of art!

[@bobmander7886]

Awesome pianist! She has the piece totally memorized and is playing it from her soul with passion.

[@rwsmith7638]

Man, she really gets on it! This is the best orchestral version I've heard. ELP did an amazing job of interpreting this.

[@PianistAtsukoSeta]

@@rwsmith7638 Thank you very much

[@nfrick1]

Keith Emerson not only adapted this piece as ELP's Toccata but also used it as an inspiration for the 3rd movement (Toccata con fuoco) of his first piano concerto.

[@nickbarton3191]

I too got here via ELP's version. I remember at school my music teacher asking me why I love discordant music and she started to play some melody on the piano. So I told her "to make it crunchy" and she started to add discords. "That's it" I exclaimed a bit like Eric Morecambe at the end of the sketch with Andrea Previn. Still love music with "bite".

[@jamesschaidt1096]

It's pointless if it isn't... dangerous.

[@xyshomavazax]

This is one of those times you need a wind ensemble director instead of an orchestra conductor. Meter and precision are paramount in this piece; you can’t have the woodwinds and strings being all willy-nilly-imma-subdivide-my-own-damn-way.

[@dbbubba1]

After years of only hearing the Emerson Lake and Palmer version and having played their version many years ago I find it very interesting to hear an orchestra playing the beginning section. While this isn't as rhythmically precise as the ELP version it is interesting how the orchestral version flows like a river. It ends up being a more impressionistic version than the meticulously crafted studio version by ELP... and that is OK.

[@hedaron3787]

​@dbbubba1 ELP really went all in and all out. Definitely noteworthy.

[@2906nico]

What a fabulous noise.

[@Dario_Walter_Scavuzzo_Sviecka]

Dios mio!!!! , que excelencia en el gobierno de la dinámica, a cada nota le da un valor propio.. Ojalá viniera a la Argentina.

[@richdisilvio4591]

This is an amazing composition by Ginastera, but Emerson Lake & Palmer's adaptation takes this work to the ultimate "diabolical" limit.

[@jamesschaidt1096]

They sure did, and this is great as well...I love it ! 🎼

[@hedaron3787]

Both renditions are amazing in their own right

[@angrycat3525]

Three words: o mY GOD!* Not only was this an extremely inspiring performance, but seeing Atsuko Seta enjoying herself throughout the piece blew me away! *Notice how the font increases in intensity? Oh well, so much for KZbin's one size fits all typeface...

[@hedaron3787]

It's a beautiful thing

[@tomiclamor]

This whole performance is so amazing even until your encore pieces!! I can tell that you really enjoy ginastera's music with a passion,, and this really inspires me to continue also playing and expressing his music ((: Bravo!!

[@Balfour.]

Encore - Danzas Argentinas (A. Ginastera) 6:10 Danza de la Moza Donosa 9:41 Danza del Gaucho Matrero

[@belaszilva9243]

emerson feldolgozás még magasabbra emelte ezt a fantasztikus zenét

[@gerdlindlar1980]

breathtaking

[@snflip]

Awesome ! Thanks for putting this up.

[@russisaac813]

Fabulous

[@moises_munoz]

magistral!

[@steverodgers8425]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer took this piece and electrocuted it!

[@himatfilmkoln9818]

Even Ginastera himself liked it: "Keith Emerson has beautifully caught the mood of my piece"

[@davebartholome2924]

It was by far their most successful adaption of a "classical" piece.

[@davep8221]

@@davebartholome2924 Fanfare For the Common Man did OK, esp with the Olympics and all. Hoedown worked. Pictures at an Exhibition, from the live album is in my top 1 faves.

[@davep8221]

@@himatfilmkoln9818 Emerson, who spoke no Spanish, went to ask Ginastera for permission to adapt it, and Ginastera, who did not speak English, said something that had the word "Diabolique" in it which Emerson thought it meant AG hated it. But it really meant as you say, "diabolical" was the mood AG was going for. RIP Keith, but I understand.

[@Alix777.]

Please listen to the Martins version with Leinsdorf conducting its way better and savage than this...

[@MrInterestingthings]

Wow! And a staggering frenetic performance of his solo set! A fabulous energetic ,even fun performance . This is frightening ,raving ,exhibitionist ,harrowing music that can not be made light simply because it is highly rhythmic.Why did Argerich resuscitate Shostakovich concerto instead of this? .She plays a a lot of Ginastera !

[@oli9thade]

Estoy extasiado, joder!!!

[@LloydWright-x3c]

❤

[@timmundorff2354]

A camera on her hands would be nice.

[@pedrova8058]

wow , it's weird to hear such "dry" orchestral music (close mic technique, I miss the decca tree ). Great performance anyway!

[@PianistAtsukoSeta]

Thank you 😊

[@jamesschaidt1096]

This makes the heaviest of those heavy metal goons/clowns look and sound like the goons and clowns that they are. 😂

[@franckmousset4022]

Les tempi sont trop lents.

[@leesmith3346]

She's good, but no Keith Emerson.

[@markfarrell6810]

And there will probably never be another Keith Emerson. Some are close to achieving a good reproduction of his work, but few (if any) match his creativity or his ability to re-envision an existing work - as seen here.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

It's easy to see why Ginastera loved the ELP verizon so much. This version is so mild, it sounds like some bad orchestral cover of an ELP original! lol

[@alis1637]

Toccata was well played as was the first encore. Second encore wasn’t very good. Ginestera’s music needs a rhythmic drive which wasn’t there, and there was way too much rubato used