Wilhelm Stenhammar - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1907)

[@matteogenerani5097]

0:06 - Moderato, recitando 1:35 - Allegro molto energico 2:11 - Più tranquillo 3:45 - Allegro molto energico 5:56 - Tempo primo (quasi cadenza) 6:55 - Allegro molto energico 8:34 - Sostenuto 10:01 - Molto più mosso 10:22 - Molto vivace 12:25 - Allegretto dolce espressivo 16:12 - Adagio 16:31 - Molto vivace 17:50 - Tempo Allegretto un poco sostenuto 18:06 - Poco Adagio 18:32 - Adagio 24:48 - Tempo moderato 26:09 - Animato 29:26 - Tempo primo 31:05 - Più mosso

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

Jeez I see fewer time stamps on an album lmao

[@matteogenerani5097]

@@aramkhachaturian8043 ahahah

[@bennyksmusicalworld]

The most underrated piano concerto out there, along with Moszkowski E major.

[@gordonbentley1476]

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[@SCRIABINIST]

@@gordonbentley1476 Why do you exist?

[@bird401]

@@SCRIABINIST If you find out the answer to that one, do fill us in.

[@fridgeron1641]

@@gordonbentley1476 I once had the same issue. I then went and made myself a sandwich and suddenly I remembered. Try this. Glad if I could help.

[@TheModicaLiszt]

Bliss

[@hermanhillyrottier-jassies4901]

Having lived in Sweden I starten to admire Stenhammar and this concerto is one of my favourites.

[@jacklevinson1]

i love how the piano and orchestra "argue" over the tonality of this piece between d minor/f major and c# minor (10:15 is a really good example) and how the piano reluctantly joins the orchestra in the same key at times. very unique to this piece which is why it became one of my new favorites

[@JeremyRobertWalker]

Fit this into the context of being pre WWI

[@mixchief]

@@JeremyRobertWalker Could also fit well within the context of our era, should he have composed this today.

[@mateusquasetuga]

I remember hearing this on the radio on the school bus going home from school in about 1995. Made such a huge impression. Still love it. Yes, btw, I was a huge dork in high school.

[@gerardbegni2806]

This concerto is written in a very beautiful postromantic style. It is very wisely written, and the themes and developments are very appealing. A masterwork to put aside with his second symphony.

[@georgecziffra]

That chord progression from 2:43 - 2:55 is completely out of left field but I love it

[@mosaicclassics]

+georgecziffra Yeah! Like jazz progressions.

[@3e3op88]

It's just the circle of fourths and fifths.

[@gerardbegni2806]

The important point is not the superstructure of the chords, but their root. I must confess that I did not note this section, so I cannot give any opinion of my own.

[@retrops4261]

3e3op88 it is very much jazz voicing though, not classical

[@bowerdw]

I thought the first piano concerto contained everything I look for a piano concerto. This one even more so. Is that possible? Well, I think so.

[@JJTownley_Classical-Composer]

A really fine piano concerto one of the best in the literature of forgotten piano concertos. The first movement is a little weak but the other three are top notch, especially the finale. A nice little blast of Nordic winter in the line of Sibelius' Violin Concerto and parts of his symphonies.

[@donnytello1544]

I really enjoyed this, as far as Scandinavian composition goes I’ve always loved it, but a lot of the composers excusing grieg/ Sibelius/atterberg/and rautavaara, ive not been too impress but this was a masterwork. Such a breath fresh of air, it’s totally unique and original, doesn’t even remind me of any other composers

[@kaybeenullenvoyde9196]

Much of this work is a leisurely-seeming foray out and about, and then along come surprises. i had to listen to it for a number of YEARS until I started to get it, and am still unpacking the special moments. The coda stuck in my brain immediately, however...over 25 years ago. Great to revisit.

[@MrInterestingthings]

I believe this. Nonos fuerte...has taken me almost 30. This concerto feels as if it really has something to say .1907 a lit of this oldromantic stuff was still being written.The Villiers works delibera immediately.Often that means music won't live long within me.

[@EleftheriosMariosAntakis]

He is memorable, he doesn't need to be famous, he is meritorious ! ! !

[@jboushka]

This music reminds me of Brahms, very late Chopin (Op 61 like), some Rachmaninoff (the slow movement), and especially Amy Beach. How can such an obscure work sound so familiar. A masterpiece.

[@gerardbegni2806]

The major orchestral works of Stenhammar are his two concertos for piano and his "second" symphony. He rejected the "first" symphony because he considered it as immature. This concerto and the second symphony show that Stenhammar was a great composer, fully aware of what he was writing. There is true magnanimity in this concerto. I do not know why he did not write more for orchestra. Perhaps he was too busy with his conductor business in Uppsala. He wrote also chamber music and piano sonatas.

[@NovicebutPassionate]

Don't forget his wonderful Serenade, Op. 31, in five movements. There is a striking similarity between the end of the 4th movement (Notturno) and Barber's Adagio for Strings. (Stenhammar Serenade, 1911 - Barber Adagio, 1936.)

[@jaredoaks]

His Sensommarnätter is also spectacular.

[@gerardbegni2806]

@@jaredoaks Yes, true. A very interesting composer. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@baileyrob]

This is so underrated it makes me sad.

[@Enkaptaton]

Be happy. It can only become more famous.

[@baileyrob]

When it becomes more famous, then I'll be happy. :(

[@LandOnBolts]

I'm skating today lol yeah yeah but yeah yeah yeahs

[@Majik47]

You ought to listen to Hugo Alfvén then. Symphony # 3, for instance.

[@Situnadei]

The great Swedish composer Stenhammar, he should be well known in the world, Fabolous

[@fp8035]

And what a pianist Ms. Eriksson was!!! Simply stunning, thank you for posting

[@hyseo1121]

I like this piece very much. The 1st movement is so expressive.

[@theknight9292]

This is so original and beautiful

[@Ludvich-y8i]

Stunning, stunning, stunning♥️♥️!!

[@JulieinSeattle]

Came here to listen before a purchase at Arkiv. This composition is a revelation. Anyone who loves Brahms' piano concertos should enjoy this.

[@andrewhill9093]

Just wonderful, can see this becoming a personal favourite!

[@MrInterestingthings]

The 3/8section is an inspired.Then he goes back to the Franckian/Brahmsian chorale he opend up with.Feelslikethe idea is gestating and never gets out!

[@joespencer471]

Heard the piece on Sirius XM Symphony Hall a day ago. Nice; the 3rd Movement reminds me of Robert Schumann. Glad to find out pieces and composers, especially in the Romantic Era, that don't get much exposure.

[@esperantofeig]

The by far best recording of this concerto is with Janos Solyom and Stig Westerberg. Truly astounding music.

[@bartjebartmans]

I think Greta Eriksson does a mighty fine job. Nothing wrong with her performance.

[@Barnaldomort]

I am so shocked to discover this magnificent piece!

[@paulescudero9973]

Very nice music. Thank you.

[@TonyMatthewsComposer]

Amazing Work. Thankyou for posting this.

[@sleort42]

Stenhammar fortjener at blive spillet lidt mere i koncertsalene. !

[@susanmdunn]

This concerto is the epitome of what's happening in the U.S. today. Two sides don't listen to each other. The piano wants to make everyone happy, but doesn't hear the deep angst of the orchestra. Finally, when the piano goes into C-sharp minor and "hears" the orchestra's heartbreak, the orchestra begins to become willing to hear what the piano has to offer. I don't know of a better work of "abstract" music that actually tells a humanistic story without the need of a written "programme." A masterpiece. A template of reconciliation.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Gag.

[@bowerdw]

An awesome work.

[@AlbertoSegovia.]

A ritardando where there is no ritardando. A moderato that is not a moderato, and a moderato from his first concerto that sounds vivace. I have fallen in love at first listen with this composer; but what the hell is going on with contemporary performance? Where is the tempo palette? Is it that we only know freneticism? How many of us are acquainted with tempo ordinario tradition, or even connectected to our body’s reaction to aural stimuli, like when heartbeat guided music in the 1600-1700’s and beginning of the 1800’s? Did words mean something to Stenhammar? That I want to know, not what a pianist opines about his work. Thanks for sharing!! :)

[@Pablo-gl9dj]

Kind of late to ask Stenhammar. You are welcome to record your vastly superior version.

[@Pablo-gl9dj]

And no, it is not frenetic but controlled as the performer wished.

[@AlbertoSegovia.]

@@Pablo-gl9dj thanks to other composers’ metronome marks, we have better idea of what moderato and tranquillo and allegro could mean. And you are wrong, frenetic playing can be perceived by the audience; who in their majority have not been dipped head to toe in conservatories, where freneticism is the run-of-the-mill aesthetics. That’s the problem: on average, classical music no longer fills with the transcendent beauty it can, but only seems to care about showing off. You talk about this as if you were unaware of the recent tempo research, and as if we could demand that these artists should have known about it.

[@AlbertoSegovia.]

@@Pablo-gl9djIf the moderato by the performers is not the same as the composer wanted, I should keep looking for more recordings,

[@AlbertoSegovia.]

@@Pablo-gl9djand even within their chosen aesthetic system in this recording, why do the ritardandi and sostenuti not feel any different from the main tempi? Why should they feel the need to get with this over as soon as possible? Where is the spiritual quietude that the composer could have felt in order to want to write sostenuto? Thanks for giving me the idea to look for more recordings of this,

[@ytyt3922]

Beautiful and thrilling!

[@kliberalsing]

MASTERPIECE.

[@wilh3lmmusic]

24:48 onwards is great 29:03 too

[@Astrid321]

Tack, underbart

[@ragnarzetterberg9032]

A truly great piece. Very impressionistic and it bodes the tragic and meaningless war to come a few years later...

[@knownfact4905]

I think he gets stereotyped or lumped in with other composers. I don't have the knowledge to pin it down but there's something going on in his handful of major works, something that brings me back

[@Pablo-gl9dj]

It's pleasant enough but not memorable and tends to meander at times. Maybe good but not even close to great.

[@douwemusic]

This is beautiful, but I can see why he didn't get very famous

[@steveegallo3384]

@Emmanuel Avila Pianist --- But what if....WHAT IF...they were just CHANNELING through Stenhammar? Like Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" did for Wagner's 'Walkürenritt'? (Greetings from San Agustinillo!

[@ullanorrby1251]

Fr.o.m. 12,34 is a little bit elgar... beautiful

[@hugokubarth9316]

megalobombastico, but thanks for making it public

[@lucienr7931]

0:00 5:25 18:27 21:11-22:12 23:07 23:46 25:45 29:43 30:30

[@JAMESLEVEE]

The key is D minor.

[@bartjebartmans]

Ook wel d klein genaamd. Of d mineur. Klein maar fijn.

[@kliberalsing]

[@AlessioAndres]

Davy Jones Theme at 22:10

[@erika9763]

The ads thrown in at random destroy the experience.

[@wademanix8801]

Where do you get ads? I never do.

[@erika9763]

@@wademanix8801 Do you have a paid membership to youtube? There are 3 or 4 ads thrown into this piece that interrupt the music.

[@SuperPeacebreaker]

26:34

[@4gnostic]

this is strange.

[@wademanix8801]

Turdy: Strange in what way?

[@darrylschultz6479]

@@wademanix8801 I think he was talking about his name.

[@Ludvich-y8i]

@@darrylschultz6479 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@isaacparra2071]

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[@Metushalakh]

Lyrical tragicness.

[@Ami-dk9pl]

Awful, the publicity in the middle of a concerto!