Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell)

Live performance of Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell. The soloist was Chris Hill with the West Forest Sinfonia, conducted by Stephen Armstrong. Recorded on 11th November 2006 in All Saints Church, High Wycombe.
This performance is dedicated to Peter Branson, my first piano teacher. He sadly passed away before I ever performed in public, but his memory inspires every performance I give today.
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[@lanipicard6286]

Today is my mother's birthday, Feb. 20, 1925. She played Warsaw Concerto on the paino. it was her favorite and mine. Happy Birthday, Mom!!! And, thank you for everything! You were my greatest teacher and always will be. I love you.

[@Khatru39]

My father had this piece of music, and I adored it. I remember once having a chest infection and running a high temperature. I was in bed, and it was a warm summer evening, and this music was going through my head until I drifted off to sleep! My father was sat with me the whole time. I was about 8 years old. Thanks Dad for all you did! 🙏🙏🙏

[@roybrown613]

Beautiful piece of music! 10:25 am

[@jeanier12]

So very powerful

[@ChristopherFryman]

I have similar experience.

[@paulturner6111]

From the wonderful Wartime film " Dangerous Moonlight "........ Simply wonderful....

[@user-sx5pt8xp6r]

Sublime 🎼🎹🥀 10:25 pm

[@MAZE4]

My mother is in hospital right now, she loves this piece of music, if you can, and if it's not against your Religion, pray for her please.

[@bolognafalls]

How's your mother?

[@MAZE4]

@@bolognafalls she passed on.

[@bolognafalls]

@@MAZE4 I'm sorry for your loss. May she fly high.

[@MAZE4]

@@bolognafalls thanks for that kind message friend.

[@ericshackleton9454]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jamesanderson5268]

This was my mother's favorite piece of music, bless her soul. She passed 15 months ago.

[@katrinagraham9811]

I lost my brother Ronald last Thursday... He was an amazing pianist and when I was a little girl he took me into a piano shop and played this piece. I love him and miss him so much. Thinking of you James. We have our memories, which we must embrace. RIP

[@theresiaconn542]

She had excellent taste sir My sympathies

[@fx02zbn]

Mt favorite too. I hope it gave her lots of pleasure.

[@tinantmyriam1936]

God bless 🙌 Courage 🍀🌿🍀🌿

[@sondrasmith2691]

You were blessed. May she R.I.P. 🎹

[@michaelpordage8352]

First time I heard this piece of music was sixty years of ago I now 80 years of age.beautiful-score and my breast still bursts with excitement,wonderful ❤

[@GarnerReidy]

I learned to play this wonderful piece of music when I was young. My Father (Frank Reidy) was a friend of the composer and played (Clarinet) in the orchestra during the recording of the score for the film Dangerous Moonlight. I cannot listen to it without crying. This performance was truly excellent for such a young pianist. Very moving indeed. Francesco Reidy London 2011.

[@esthelaurriquia9403]

Bravo!!! I love this music. I used to play this when I was taking lessons at CCM (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) years ago, but I stopped practicing it so I am re-learning it.. This is like Rach 2. I love both of them.

[@arvindpatel1037]

so true brings tears in my eyes every time

[@edisonmoscoso7669]

Perfect!

[@edisonmoscoso7669]

Perfect for me.I had 6 years old when I listening for the first time. The sound,harmony and beauty was in the air.What memory!

[@johnkellett3631]

Fantastic, I love this music.

[@batshevaagmon7298]

I love this piece especially when I could play it some years ago when i was younger and healthier.

[@donaldmccormack7580]

This concerto always fills me with hope. Life is bloody tough but listening to this I realise I´m fortunate to be here. Terrific pianist. Thank you.

[@tinantmyriam1936]

Absolutely magnificent 👌

[@richardbirch8831]

MY dad was born there & escaped the Nazys

[@maradon._.]

I play this in my orchestra and it fills me with anxiety

[@hs7921]

I was born in 1952, but my parents memories of a harsh Europe from 1939 to 1945 showed on their faces when we would listen to this. It remains one of my favourite “classical” pieces.

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

Love it ! I played this as a young girl . Now an old woman and can no longer play the piano . I loved the way this pianist rendered one of the most beautiful concerts of this times . Pity it is not given the honor of a Grieg or a Rachmaninoff . Bravo !!

[@Admiral8Q]

I bet you were amazing at playing this!

[@jcsrubbishbin6820]

Don't be modest! You're probably hotter than you think Conchitina!

[@drummergirl4742]

Would love to see you play this 😌

[@sondrasmith2691]

I agree with your points.

[@FrankWms]

We all LOVE this song, and good piano playing, don’t we? ❤

[@patriziabartolotta251]

Il Concerto di Varsavia, di Richard Addinsell, uno dei doni più belli e preziosi che l'uomo abbia ricevuto... Mi riporta indietro nel tempo: ai miei 18 anni. Grazie di cuore per questo meraviglioso risveglio! Ore 6:00 antimeridiane del 22 marzo 2024. E adesso si và in ufficio. 😢

[@3MikeK]

This concerto is a fabulous and wonderful composition standing the test of time. The first time I heard it I was 11 and my piano teacher, Mrs. Orr performed it off sheet music and I was blown away. I am 67 now and it still blows me away. mk

[@francis2811]

One of my favourite pieces of music... It inspires me every day..

[@ruthcollins2841]

Listened to this as a kid in 1960s as Mum & Dad had a lot of old LPs and loved this one. This & Holst's Mars.

[@darylsmith5517]

Very beautiful! Reminds me of my favorite composer Rachmaninoff. Played it at the end of one of my piano classes today. A 15 year old said it made her cry,

[@TheClockwise770]

Yes I actually believed it was composed by Rachmaninov but the chord change aren't really quite his style @6.12

[@AuntieMamie]

I cannot play this piece enough. It captures the heartbreak of war and is exquisite. Warsaw was truly desecrated yet there was always hope. Richard Adinsell is brilliant in conveying the tragedy yet the hope and will of the people. It was written during the ear ad part of an effort to keep the faith. I may be all wrong.

[@luizmiranda1950]

In 1960 my father bought a LP collection from Readers Digest, Popular Music Festival. Since then the Warsaw Concerto was one of the best inspirations I've had. Soon we had a piano, I took a music course and learned to play. Thank you, Addinsell.

[@kimmygirl4544]

I listened to this when I was young. It was one of my favorite pieces then, it continues to be today. So very powerful.❤

[@ianwhitehead4337]

Truly wonderful. This masterpiece never fails to send a shiver down my spine everytime i hear it. 👌

[@mojo9761]

This music reminds me of my father. I remember when I was 8 in the 60's he had an LP with this concerto on and it used to get played on a Sunday afternoon, it used to make me feel sad 😢! I remember once I was running a high fever and this tune just went round and round in my head.

[@kimmygirl4544]

Interesting you should say that it made you sad. I also felt sad and the beauty and power of the song made me cry. Listened to it on my mother's album so many times as a young child. Interesting how people share some of the same experiences and emotions while listening to such beautiful and complex music. ❤

[@Khatru39]

@@kimmygirl4544 Maybe we were feeling sad together

[@jabah126]

Truly am blown away by this. It touches my very soul.

[@TheProms]

Priceless

[@clamdip2]

Ah! This brings back so many fond memories. It is sad that this fine concerto has fallen into disuse. It deserves far better. This is a fine start but probably too late. To all those of my generation: Enjoy!

[@johnbjelkepugerup3107]

charles Mccaghy ede

[@felixseguragarcia1266]

Sure. An extraordinary Concert. Of course the performance of the soloist Chris Hill makes this concert BEST!.

[@terrencelacroix3884]

we are doing this piece tomorrow night, 6-22-17

[@ramonawalter1442]

Do know know what movie this was played in? I saw it as a child and this piece stayed with me forever.

[@ramonawalter1442]

I just found it. It was Dangerous Moonlight.

[@amielschotz4982]

This was written as a kind of pastiche of a Rachmaninov concerto and it is brilliant in its way, condensing into one movement, as dictated by the needs of the film script, the essence of a full concerto.

[@123Aballer]

it is the masterpiece admireded by many who still like good music and the skill required to play.

[@ianhills8980]

What a brilliant young man - and still in his teens, by the look of it !

[@anted5964]

Full of passion excitement and energy superb sit back shut your eyes and just let the music take hold of you ❤

[@user-sx5pt8xp6r]

Tal cual. Es sobrecigedora 🎼🎹🥀

[@waynecolburn8849]

I think it's wonderful. And played so well. It has depth of feeling and brings to life another time. Music today cannot speak like this.

[@2008wainey]

Great piece of work gives me goose bumps just listening to this wonderful music

[@docspead]

Each and every time I listen to the Warsaw Concerto; I remember the movie Dangerous Moonlight!

[@donaldmccormack7580]

Deeply evocative and moving. Makes me glad to be alive. Thank you.

[@user-sx5pt8xp6r]

❤

[@user-sx5pt8xp6r]

Mi abuela tocaba este sublime tema. Imposible escuchar otro tipo de música 🎼🎹.

[@boyamIhappy]

Such a beautiful and haunting piece of music. Rarely does music feed the soul as does this extraordinary classic. My father was Polish and whenever we walked into a certain club, the pianist would instantly play the Warsaw Concerto in honour of my father and all the other Poles who risked their lives fighting for this country. To the day my father died, he still had nazi shrapnel in his legs, which he got fighting at El Alemein and Monte Cassino.

[@JeffM---]

3:22 blows me away. That was just awesome. Chris Hill was on fire.

[@dianeu-wm4ei]

i agree but had some very negative comments to me.......NOT my CONCERN...i like what I LIKE....period.....MY CHOICE

[@roseford3483]

My parents’ favorite. Married in 1946. Santa Barbara, CA.concert sobbed over by coeds during the war.

[@samrichert5234]

This has been "the song" that makes my heart rejoice for years. The Technology we have now is so wonderful, I can just pick this up and play it a thousand times if I want to.

[@artistjaystrong]

Very moving...great job. I listen to this over and over while I paint. It is a very challenging piece and quite inspirational.

[@1213978]

wonderful so fantastic

[@RC-ml3ne]

My aunt was an accomplished pianist and a teacher. She returned from Italy in 1947 and moved in with us in NJ. My mother, her younger sister, was the violinist, and they had concretized in Europe before the war. I have fond memories of my aunt at her baby grand playing this for me when I was a child.

[@eoscarz]

Exquisite, magical, pure beauty.

[@brentlemons4129]

what a wonderful performance....I've never heard another concerto that impressed me like this one!

[@jean-michelprillieux5012]

Ce concerto, qu'est que j'ai pu l'entendre quand j'étais jeune. C'était le préféré de ma maman.

[@antoniotermulo9214]

What!!!! 77 thumbs down???? On this fantabulous piece of heavenly melody???? What are this mindless people thinking 🤔.. I love ❤️ it. 😍😍😍😍😍

[@belartful]

I read the thumbs down are not real,but computer generated..

[@SkugSkellum]

Possibly influenced by Spike Milligan's description of it as "the Bloody Awful Warsaw Concerto". This description probably coloured by constant requests for it, as well as repetitions on radio, in 1941. Overexposure will generate antipathy. And of course, some people just don't like classical music.

[@MsOgr1]

Fred Cairns yes, I hated that he did that.

[@francescoelia.marino]

I have no words to comment this beauty

[@BobSmith-fj6mz]

Used to listen to this with my mum who died last year many memories

[@paulturner6111]

a truly breathtaking Performance Chris --- with the Sinfonia ---it made me Cry...........

[@SG19753]

This is the first classical music i ve ever listened when i was 17 yrs...and since I fall in love with this music...it 45 years ago..

[@canvan8818]

Beautiful composition, excellent performance. More please. This is a significant 20th Century piece.

[@bernardovillanueva7135]

Listening to classical music gives you a heavenly feeling and peace . It is magical and resonates to all your body system.

[@angelajohnson9812]

I definitely agree with your comment,it's helped to be save my Life,. Music is is a great healer...

[@cezar1951]

Cris, I love this piece of music ... congratulations for posting... from Brazil! Sorry my bad english

[@annshr9917]

Very impressed with your playing. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to play the piano keys with such speed and dexterity. OMG, your playing took my breath away. More success to you!

[@pirjotahvanainen9639]

Most beautiful 😢 but still hopeful. Touching ❤

[@iancockburn9918]

Beautiful piece of classical music.

[@Rembrandtt66]

A very beautiful piece of music, and a very skilled pianist. I do envy these very talented people. Thankyou. Andrew Wyeth.

[@wiseal4827]

I learned this work when I was 12, 1 piano version. My classical trained teacher told me it was based on Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto & having played that at 16, I can hear the similarity. Never mind that, I still love it as a great movie theme.

[@federicohernandez6076]

Desde hace varios años la escucho frecuentemente y nunca dejo de maravillarme de lo hermosa que es y de lo magistralmente interpretada por Addinsell

[@user-kl4ow3wq7t]

😮 BRILHANT .. BRAVO 👏👏👏👏👏my GOD AWESOME PERFORMANCE..👏👏👏👏👏

[@paulmitchell359]

This is an engaging rendition of the Warsaw Concerto, the most significant instrumental work written in England during the war, still conjuring up a time and place better than any other piece. Simultaneously magical, inspirational and heart-wrenching … Chopin would dearly have loved to have written this one … all of his works were written from a strong, unwavering sense of patriotism, and a longing to return.

[@ukestudio3002]

I think you mean ..Rachmaninov .

[@anaschroeter5725]

What a performance!!!!! You are a great pianist Thank you Chris.

[@dmg1866]

Beautiful. Chris Hill is amazing. I remember my mum and those early years when we only had the radio with the magic eye - but cherished it, my first taste of classical music from that little wooden box. This concerto was one of our favourites.💛

[@manslayer1972]

i love this piece of music... russ conway used to play it to me, now it makes me cry and remember a better time in life.....

[@joancollins54]

I studied this concerto 45 years ago! I just took out the sheet music last week to play it. It is truly a difficult piece to play but this was a joy to listen to. I never had the chance to perform with an orchestra but would have loved to been a true concert pianist. I was told I had the talent but not the funds to go to Julliard. Still, I never gave up and love playing the piano. This is one of my favorite pieces to play. He did an amazing job, as did the orchestra. Performing live is not the easiest thing to do but I loved it when I got the chance to play for the public.

[@angelacooper2661]

45 years ago I was just eight and at junior school back then (between the ages of seven and eleven, for your information). I had only started learning the violin a year before. Now aged 53, I have been playing in an amateur orchestra for years (both violin and then viola!)

[@charleshudson5330]

Beautiful music, beautifully played. A wonderful concerto in the style of Rach. Chris Hill did a great job.

[@konradx498]

Yes. Fabulous piece. Addisell was British, but his concerto is very “Hollywoodesque,” in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was born near Novgorod, Russia. Two years after the movie “Dangerous Moonlight” was released, Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills CA, right next to Hollywood, where I was born and raised. So many memories.

[@manueladelnilo6591]

Qué paz me da...... Mi pieza clásica favorita... Ojalá hubiese tenido el privilegio de haber tocado el piano... Y concretamente esta maravillosa música

[@AGoodJudgeofTalent]

Dan MacNamera and I used to lay on his bed in college, clothes on, and listen to this over, and over. Thank-you Dan for turning me on to this almost 40 years ago now. Great memories of you, and this music. Kathy Ballard xooxox

[@andrebarberis4265]

Wow what a remarkable performance I salute your talent Maestro

[@raoulsteiner]

From time to time, I listen to this Concerto. I got the movie just for the music. It is a wonderfull work.

[@lotus92620]

Fantastic job!! Playing this tomorrow on the cello with piano soloist. Practicing along with your recording is helping tremendously.....👏👏👏😊

[@peteroconnell1161]

I cannot stop crying

[@1213978]

So outstanding in this performance!

[@antoniotermulo9214]

Superb performance by the pianist and the Philharmonic Orchestra.. heavenly.... divine.... uplifting.... captivating....❤️❤️🎹🎹🌹🌹🎻🎻💋🎵🎵💝💝🎺🎺

[@mariaisabelsanabriasalmon3641]

Esta melodia le encantaba a mi padre, recuerdo de cuando era pequeña después de la cena nos llevaba a escucharla, aún cuando me parecía un poco triste me gustó. Ya pasó muchol tiempo y se quedó en mi memoria y cada vez que puedo la escucho y me deleito con esta joya musical.

[@MAZE4]

Exquisite, a marvelous rendition of a beautiful musical score.

[@belartful]

In my Teens,I was a figure skater(rollar,believe it or not!) This piece was my choice for my routine..(Edited for 3 minutes)1960..hearing it again brings me to tears!!

[@elisabetecostacosta9573]

Uma das músicas mais lindas que já ouvi, concerto maravilhoso!!!! Simplesmente maravilhoso

[@josparkes9381]

This pianist and orchestra knocks other versions of this powerful piece into a cocked hat, it is brilliant in its tidal wave of beauty and magic !!!

[@1947Rogerio]

Dear Chris, If you are an angel, where are your wings? 🌻🌼🌷🌹♥

[@SeanRaymond]

Glorilla feat. Duke Deuce - Just Say That (sent me here) 🔥

[@DrinkLennyD]

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKK!

[@dyselenbisnar7954]

Thank you for playing my favorite piece of music. I heard this when I was ten, it touched my soul and love to hear this piece always. I'm now old and just can't understand why I still love to hear this piece when it makes me cry.

[@llcamus249]

What beautiful music. Haven't heard it in so many years....as beautiful now as it was then.

[@aksel_1]

Nice job! Only a true pianist can do this!

[@tinantmyriam1936]

Absolutely beautiful and great music 🎶 🎵 ❤

[@marcela21884]

I have a special love for this piece of music !

[@annelaing7346]

Thank you for the blissful nine minutes, twenty-four seconds.

[@speakwell.840]

Hauntingly beautiful. ❤

[@Jenny-pq5eu]

You àre wonderful Richard. My first time of hearing this but I hope not my last

[@infiniterra]

One of the most beautiful works of the Art of Music...

[@prissymitchell8806]

music is not to hear, it is to feel .. fantastic pianist ! I love it !

[@triforceviolinist736]

Excellent technique! Beautiful execution as well; it's rather sad, though, that this concerto is a rarity and hardly ever performed anymore.

[@jonrosen7980]

Mostly because it isn't a full concerto. Its only 10 minutes long. Addinsall only wrote 1 movement for the film and recorded various versions for different parts of the film. So you never really realize that in the film its not complete. I think people who don't like it feel that way because in effect it is a Rachmaninoff parody.. Sounds like something LIberace would have played..

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

Please Jon rosen which is the best powerful version, I want to know, thanks.

[@aleksandramakari]

I found out of this song because I played the record and I ended up loving it!

[@josephjosephcosta9384]

@@makyhsmakyhs6766 said he had been to face

[@sophieseeker6620]

@@jonrosen7980 LIBERACE did. Often. He has an album of greatest hits and this is one of them. LIBERACE. did not use sheets this needed no page turner. He used his memory. ;-D

[@vivamusic87]

Such a beautiful concerto!!I’m happy I discovered it!

[@chillzaa]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@vivamusic87]

Chris Hill 😍

[@davidbarnett9312]

How one feels about figure skating is neither here nor there, but over the decades I have 'discovered' great pieces of music like this one while watching skating and noticing the music posted on the screen before they begin their skate.

[@lala-gj4oo]

this is my favorite classical piece with its twist and turns, highs and lows. truly beautiful.

[@worldclass777]

This piece is absolute epic greatness. If only rachmaninoff had composed it. It is almost as if rachmaninoff stepped into the mind of Addinsell.... Also a shout out to the pianist Chris Hill...great performance!!!

[@windstorm1000]

addinsell channeled rach. for sure---

[@dirkpretorius3380]

i've started learning this today - and the fingering is quite a nightmare! - definitely a lot more than meets the eye. A truly beautiful piece - beautifully preformed - Bravo Chris!

[@lindadillard8067]

Broken pieces

[@sifridbassoon]

Oh I agree! and the bad part of it is that the exposed parts are generally easy-ish. It's the parts where the piano is just accompanying the orchestra where the really nightmare licks are (as I recall). Although, I suppose that's really a good thing. If the orchestra is playing over you, no one will know if you miss a note here or there. But it's harder than it sounds, and absolutely more harder than it really needs to be. Then again, the main melody is such an ear worm. Once you get it in your head, you can't get rid of it.

[@davidmackie8552]

Yes. It's an under-rated masterpiece!

[@thereseengel6577]

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[@thereseengel6577]

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[@clivefuller-hale5073]

I enjoyed this performance very much...this piece has been a favourite since I played the 12 inch 78rpm record of it decades ago...thank you...

[@treberreip]

Listened to Varsovie concerto in my childhood in N. Africa in 1950's .best composition ever...now in my 80's still love it.

[@kristinaspencer2037]

Loved it, thank you.

[@terrybrowne3448]

In terms of meaningful emotive music fitting the times (WW11) this is the most memorable for me since my then childhood. I lived then surrounded by central european music scores, plus a RAF father (bomber command) so the first piece of classical (style) music stayed with me ever since.

[@abbiekokee3576]

Enjoyed that so much Amazing

[@lizzieatherfold2293]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece

[@johncole3973]

Faultless performance of a incredible composition it never fails to move you i have listened to this concerto since i was a lad ,am now 78 and it still have to hold back my tears ,so moving is it .