Vladigerov - Piano Concerto No.3 Op.31 (I)

B.Nedeltchev / Bulgarian SO / Vasil Kazanjiev
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[@KenBreadbox]

This has rapidly become one of my favourite piano concertos. It's so...filmic.

[@anhii]

Very Gershwiny, isn't it? Just a decade earlier.

[@peev2]

@@anhii This concerto, I believe, was published in 1942.

[@KenBreadbox]

I would pay good money to own a recording of 1 through 5. This composer should be much better known in the West.

[@liliaindjieva6713]

www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8803332--pancho-vladigerov-piano-concertos-nos-1-5

[@krasimirivanov1851]

You are right but it is not the first time when Bulgaria is not known enough in the West..... This, for example is indeed very, very good, great classsic musix of 20-th Century, but .... as far it is only for us :)

[@patrickburnsmusic]

Wonderful orchestration!

[@obduliorincon6112]

Yes indeed!

[@daveluttinen2547]

This is magnificent! I am getting goosebumps listening to this. Outstanding post! Thank you for sharing this gem! This is now among my top concertos.

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

Wonderful! Concerto!

[@xavierbordes1373]

Il faut entendre ce concerto en entier. Il le mérite et la partie de piano est riche et étonnante. Très belle oeuvre ! Pas assez jouée alors qu'elle n'a rien à envier par son intérêt à des concertos fameux, Saint-Saens, Bartok, etc... Quelle inventivité sonore ! Dommage que la partition sur l'écran soit souvent trouble...

[@OdinLimaye]

Magnificent!

[@norwalltino]

Amazing composer, he is influenced by Sergeij Rachmaninoff, but who is'nt? One of the absolutely best composers I've encountered

[@anhii]

I think they developed in parallel. He's actually a pupil of A. Dvořák, who is way more influental than people like to think.

[@MorbidMayem]

@@anhiiWho is a pupil of Dvorak? Wtf are you talking about?

[@jackgallagher9949]

Bravo! Stunning!

[@AfroPoli]

There is a recording of PV playing this concerto himself. I have listened to the LP. Great stuff.

[@DanaKot336]

Where is it ???? Oh I want to listen to it so badly !

[@nikoletapopova]

Prelestno! Blagodarq!!!

[@peterlunow]

romantic ,full of energy,joyfull

[@nickpoliti7865]

love!

[@xavierbordes1373]

Très beau ce concerto avec ses passages sauvages parfois...

[@DavidMumo]

Asombroso...

[@fyrexianoff]

@phrixil Yes. At least you let me know that someone is interested ! Tony

[@donnytello1544]

everyone here is comparing him to rachmaninoff but I feel opposite towards this, he reminds me more of taktakishvili, babadjanian, khachaturian etc.

[@obduliorincon6112]

..vigorous and passionate. Partially, in the steps of Rachmaninoff?

[@DavidMannMD]

Thanks for the score of this one. Any chance of re-uploading the 5th concerto?

[@XaverScharwenka]

Full score hasn't been released (to any Vladigerov concerto).due to (as far as I remember) copyright issues. Same obstacle has prevented them being re-recorded with the latest technologies of the 21st century... alas.

[@MorbidMayem]

This is not correct. The full score of the third one has been published in 1968, in Sofia by Nauka i Izkustvo. I do have it.

[@alanpotter8680]

​@@MorbidMayemI dare you to find the full score for sale anywhere right now.. not the 2 piano versions. I bought one from a Bulgarian site which assured me it's the real deal, only to get yet another 2 piano version.

[@fyrexianoff]

@WatchBlueSkies The performance in my opinion.

[@lambadarno]

HI fyrexianoff! I am Daniela and I am bulgarian. I search a lot for the score of this concert but I didn't find it. Can you halp me?Do you have it? Thanks

[@mahlerii]

I bought this cd many years ago and have been searching for performance materials for many years. Where can I get this score?

[@elitzariva7404]

[e-mail] This is the edition that has the full score. Издателство „Музика“, София (Edition Music, Sofia) Good luck! This site could be also useful. vladigerov.org/?p=1&l=2

[@DavidMannMD]

@fyrexianoff Yes, I am interested. I'm curious how you got such a large collection of scores -- some of these scores I have been looking for for a while unsuccessfully.

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

This is one of Vladigerov's better compositions and compares favorably with Rachmaninov. Much of his music lacks memorable melodies, but that is not the case here. He seems to have gone to the same source of inspiration as Sergei.

[@xavierbordes1373]

Mériterait davantage de notoriété...

[@talastra]

I typically find Rachmaninoff gooey and overwrought and unbearable. It is clear that Vladigerov has corrected Sergei's mis-steps. No wonder no one is letting him out of the dark.

[@TheAv0cado]

Interesting take on Rach. Perhaps take a listen to his Op 32 no 5 and no 9, alongside his piano concerto no 2 if you haven't already. Rach does do some things I dislike, but he has some very good works, and some very bad ones. Just as all composers do.

[@talastra]

@@TheAv0cado I appreciate the recommendations. I listened to no. 5 by Ashkenazy, Lisitsa, and Hamelin (in that order), knowing that Vladimir would disappoint me as usual (but there was a score to follow). Not surprisingly, Lisitsa gave the most coherent reading and almost made me think for a bit that I might listen to the piece ever again. Hamelin and Ashkenazy left the piece lifeless for me (especially Ashkenazy, who sounded like he couldn’t handle the polyrhythms). Maybe he was, just sounded like he wasn’t. I’m constantly amazed now when I listen to him how much I enjoyed him when I was a teenager. Then I listened to no. 9 played by Ashkenazy, Lugansky (didn’t finish that one), and some an Adrian Brendle, who played it at a much faster tempo (time-wise) and brought a coherence to the piece that the other two didn’t. If it is not obvious, these are not the two Rachmaninoff pieces that throw the switch in me that suddenly make my mind (or soul) “get” and wallow in him. As I commented on the Brendle performance, it would be really instructive to hear Sergei play these things. I’m not sure it would “help” but at least we’d hear what the composer seems to be after. As I was writing this, the Vladigerov accidentally replayed, ,and my initial-hearing enthusiasm was dampened for it, but I definitely didn't mind it like Rachmaninoff invokes in me. Again, thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to go listen to some Shchedrin :)

[@TheAv0cado]

@@talastra First, I appreciate you taking the time to listen to not one but 3 or 4 players. I suppose rach isn't for everyone, and perhaps il take a listen to some Shchedrin as well.

[@TheAv0cado]

Horribly messed up Shchedrin's name first time around

[@talastra]

@@TheAv0cado Shchedrin is, not surprisingly, extremely unlike the lush romanticisms of Rachmaninoff. His Second Piano Concerto is maybe a most "accessible" version of what he does, but I also really enjoy the fifth one. When he has an orchestra at his disposal, he does not forego orchestral effects and grandeur, even when his piano lines seem even more atonal than atonality. His particular wisdom is to utilize musical "gestures"; music shapes of phrases even if they seem pitch-wise incoherent. So, even though the notes in sequence are not (or don't seem) in any way hummable or likely to make you find them predictable or even sensible, the recurring shapes of the gestures are what your mind notices and holds on to (not dissimilarly to motifs in Bach). I often wonder if the specific notes or intervals even in Shchedrin actually "matter"; I almost always remember the shapes of phrases, and hear their recurrences, rather than "melodies". It's really quite wonderful. And his musical sensibility of what to do with the orchestra is really compelling. That said, he definitely likes to channel his inner Prokofiev, and will often have these very "secco," skittery, rhythmically delicious fast passages. The second concerto has a spectacular example. If you find those at all tolerable, I strongly recommend his polyphonic notebook and his 24 Preludes and Fugues, ,which are both for piano only, and so you spend the entire time in a world of shapes with an impressively perverse resistance to anything like "melody." It's all about the rhythmic interest, but it may be so "jarring" without melodies that it's too annoying. In any case, thanks for the recommendation. Let me know what you think of Shchedrin :) PS: he's not even dead yet, and concerto 6 was composed when he was 71 :)