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Piano Concerto (Grieg) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grieg's concerto is often compared to the Piano Concerto of Robert Schumann— it is in the same key, the opening descending flourish on the piano is similar, and the overall style is considered to be closer to Schumann than any other single composer. Grieg had heard Schumann's concerto played by Clara Schumann in Leipzig in 1858, and was greatly influenced by Schumann's style generally, having been taught the piano by Schumann's friend, Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel. In the last movement of the concerto, similarities to the springar (a Norwegian folk dance) and imitations of the Hardanger fiddle (the Norwegian folk fiddle) have been detected. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)   (506 words)

Piano concerto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The piano concerto form survived through the 20th century into the 21st, with examples being written by Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Samuel Barber, Michael Tippett, Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Leroy Anderson, Philip Glass and others. A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra. Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto Series A project to record and reassess the work of Romantic composers whose contributions to the development of the piano concerto (in some cases entire careers) have been neglected or forgotten. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_concerto   (770 words)

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 He wrote to the violinist Joseph Joachim: "A second will sound different." Brahms was true to his word, but a second piano concerto was over 20 years in coming. In contrast to the dismal reception given his first piano concerto, this work was very successful, almost immediately gaining acceptance as a part of the standard repertoire. Brahms's second piano concerto was begun in 1878 and completed in July of 1881. www.galvestonsymphony.org /composers/JBrahms_PianoConc2.html   (802 words)

Piano Concerto Tchaikovsky's piano concerto No. 1, in B flat Minor, was completed on February 21st, 1875 and had its first performance on October 25th, 1875, in Boston. The story of this piano concerto and its ultimate rejection by the man to whom it was dedicated is, perhaps, one of the most famous tales in all of classical music. So it was that the performance of Tchaikovsky piano concerto, a performance which was familiar to many in the audience and had arouse them to enthusiasm previously, this time took on an extra measure of inspiration. www.geocities.com /Vienna/5648/Piano.htm   (761 words)

:: INKPOT: RACHMANINOV The Second Piano Concerto: An Inktroduction - INKPOT The Second Piano Concerto is characteristic of this fine balance, sublime in its lyricism, but always whispering a sincere emotional message. The "Elegiac" Piano Trios with the Borodin Trio (Chandos) As for the concerto's opening string theme, which harkens back to Orthodox plainchant with its step-wise progression and limited range of notes, it is actually a fuller development of the bass line from a linking passage in the finale. inkpot.com /classical/rachpfc2.html   (3430 words)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.1 The D flat chords of the latter's First Piano Concerto - one of the most famous opening solo gestures in the repertoire - are here transcribed for strings and brass. The piano itself then joins the orchestra in a surging lyrical theme, the kind of theme (and especially the kind of texture) that Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov likes to reserve for the culmination of a finale; and the kind of theme which seems destined, as this one does, to come to a full stop. Above all, the chameleon-like adaptation of the piano to its surroundings is pure Prokofiev. www.geocities.com /Vienna/1891/op10.html   (532 words)

Roussel: Concerto for Piano, opus 36 He was never at his best in writing for the piano, and the concerto of 1928 is an ungrateful work in which the solo instrument is treated largely percussively. The piano concerto took longer to "grow on me" than most of Roussel's works, but I now appreciate it as one of his most forceful pieces, with many similarities in sound with the mighty (and contemporaneous) Psalm 80. In the beginning of the concerto (60K WAV file), notice the percussive, unusual role of the piano. www.opus1.com /~ehoornaert/roussel/36_piano.htm   (608 words)

Michael Matthews: Concerto for Piano My Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was composed between March of 1998 and May of 1999, in both Canada and France. I designed the concerto in five movements, though it is essentially a modified three movement work, with movements two and four being cadenzas (the first for the orchestra, the second for the soloist). Since the composition of Landscape for piano and string orchestra (1990), none of my orchestral work has involved a soloist. michaelmatthews.net /work_details/piano_concerto/piano_concerto.html   (317 words)

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 I have many performances of Brahms Piano Concerto #2 including Arrau, Ax, Barenboin, Fleisher, Gilels, Horowitz, Hough, Richter and Zimerman. The Concerto was first performed on 9 November that year in Pest with the composer on the piano again as so often before. The symphonic claim in this perfect combination of concerto and symphony is manifested by the existence of four, instead of the usual three, movements with a scherzo having been inserted between the first and the slow middle movement. www.ivanmoravec.net /albums/al-su1994.html   (658 words)

Composition Dates of Mozart's Piano Concerto Cadenzas - MozartForum Concerto for 3-Pianos #7 in F K242 (also 2 Piano Version) These cadenzas appear to be a reworking of a earlier version of which an incomplete 1st piano part to the 3rd movement cadenza--from sometime prior to the finished cadenza-- exists, and was the model for the reworking of the finished cadenza. We hear Mozart's cadenzas to his Piano Concertos all the time. www.mozartforum.com /VB_forum/showthread.php?t=1022   (1741 words)

Classical CD Reviews, Pt.1 DEC03 - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION The First Concerto shows the influence of Mozart& concertos, and is a joyful and happy sounding work which one writer characterized as “Haydn meets Rossini.” While most of his works show an experimental frame of mind, his final three piano concertos expanded the classical form into a very Romantic style. Her piano concerto was conceived as a symphony with piano solo. Hyperion’s sonics are up to their usual high standards, with a more sensible balance of the piano sound with the orchestra than many such concerto recordings. www.audaud.com /audaud/DEC03/classical/clcds1.html   (1989 words)

Program Notes Concertos were played, too, including the five (!) that Mendelssohn produced between 1822 and 1824: one for piano, one for violin, two for two pianos, and the work offered here, for violin and piano. Mendelssohn& Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra inhabits much the same musical domain as his D minor Violin Concerto of 1822, which the San Francisco Symphony and Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik performed in 2002. The Concerto for Violin and Piano has one foot planted squarely in the tradition of the eighteenth-century concerto, reminding us that Mendelssohn was inherently the most Classical of Romanticists. www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmnote.asp?nodeid=2967&callid=3025   (1790 words)

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 They discussed a choreography based on the 2nd Piano Concerto, but Prokofiev preferred to compose an opera based on Dostoyevsky's The Gambler. Prokofiev presented the concerto as follows: “a sonata(-form) allegro, with an introduction repeated after the exposition as well as at the end, a short andante before the development, the latter taking the form of a scherzo ending with a cadenza [announced by the entry of the tuba] introducing the recapitulation”. For the piano, he used powerful chords, rapid legato phrases, successions of chords in octaves in order to obtain a virtuoso counterpoint in the left hand, marked and unexpected contrasts... www.ivanmoravec.net /albums/al-pr254004.html   (2377 words)

Piano Concerto #21 by Mozart The C-major concerto, K.467, was composed as part of an extraordinary string of works produced in just over a year—eight piano concertos altogether between February 1784 and March 1785 (with four more to come before the end of 1786). In the concerto, the composer is restricted to the notes he writes to create and project a specific personality for the soloist as distinct from the orchestra. An orchestral tutti sets up the cue for the pianist’s next entrance; the piano starts with what could be the beginning of a heroic gesture—a theme rising in slow notes through the triad—but suddenly it turns again to cheerful laughter (though the horns quietly echo the grand gesture behind the fun). www.okcphilharmonic.org /Default.aspx?p=2828   (797 words)

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Concerto No.2 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op.18. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Rachmaninoff played the piano for the legendary writer, who reacted by saying, ``Tell me, is such music needed by anybody?... fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/rachmaninoff/pianoCon2.html   (430 words)

Pro Arte: Mozart; Piano Concerto One way in which the piano takes on a specific character is in the way Mozart lays out his lavish abundance of musical ideas in the first movement, in such a way that some are restricted to the piano alone, thus differentiating it from the orchestra. This is only the first of many occasions in this concerto in which the piano plays at unexpected times. The concerto style of the day called for the orchestra to play a lengthy ritornello, laying out many of the main themes, before the soloist ever sounded a note alone. www.proarte.org /notes/mozart1.htm   (456 words)

Grieg: Piano Concerto Nina stayed with her family in Copenhagen while Edvard retired to the country to compose, and by the end of the summer he had finished the solo part of his piano concerto and had outlined the orchestration. Grieg was unable to attend due to his commitments with the Oslo orchestra, but the soloist, Edmund Neupert, wrote that ``the three dangerous critics...applauded with all their might,'' and Grieg's friend Benjamin Fedderson informed him that there were ``thunderous chorus[es] of applause'' at numerous instances throughout the work. It is unsurprising, then, that Grieg arranged to have the first performance take place outside his own native land. fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/grieg/pianoCon.html   (334 words)

Records International catalogue October 1998 1 and 2, Intermezzo for Viola and Piano, Violin Sonata, Improvviso for Violin and Piano. The piano concerto (with the composer's wife as soloist) sounds a bit like Reger; the cello concerto is a supple and organic work. GIULIO BRICCIALDI (1818-1881): Concerto in A for 2 Flutes and Orchestra, Op. www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html   (11710 words)

Sheet Music Plus - Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30 - Excerpts Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 For two pianos four-hands... Sergei Rachmaninoff: Second Piano Concerto, Opus 18 - Piano Solo Arrangement For solo piano... Johann Pachelbel: Canon In D For solo piano... wwws.sheetmusicplus.com /sheetmusic/detail/WB.PA9701.html   (221 words)

Piano Forums at Piano World: Liszt - 2nd Piano Concerto: need suggestions! I was wondering if people could suggest their absolute favorite recording(s) of Liszt's 2nd Piano Concerto. I think it was his only time playing Mozart in a performance (a piano concerto), and the conductor angered him so much that Cziffra called him a "fat, insolent pig" or something of the sort, before vowing never to play in the country again. I wouldn't expect you to make such a mistake, but for what it's worth you might be thinking of the 2nd Bartok concerto, which I *think* he actually "debuted" (that is, he made the first concert performance of it--could be wrong), and it was his most important performance prior to his international career. www.pianoworld.com /ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/10050.html   (1886 words)

Concert Premiere Review Being a piano concerto written for Emanuel Ax, Rouse used the opportunity to double the theme of musical/artistic insanity by also linking the work to Robert Schumann, the great Romantic composer and pianist who was also institutionalized for psychosis. The piano here is sparse, uneven, its fragile voice occasionally interacting with sections of the orchestra that emerge from the tense silence for momentary dialogues. After that, everything slides downhill, the orchestra dropping out unevenly until the piano rattles to a close, fading into a musical question mark and leaving the listener with no sense of triumph or even satisfaction. www.fp1.com /sept98/columns/arts/rouse/rouse.html   (1547 words)

Juilliard Bookstore > Bartok Premieres: Concerto for Piano Number 3 - Concerto for Orchestra - Portrait for Violin Op. 5 GE×RGY SÁNDOR, a long-term piano pupil of Béla Bartók, gave the world premiere of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in February 1946 and recorded it for Columbia two months later. Bartok Premieres: Concerto for Piano Number 3 - Concerto for Orchestra- Portrait for Violin Op. Not to be missed is Sándor’s monumental 1993-95 traversal of Bartók’s solo piano music on a four-CD set (Sony 68275 or 87949), and a two-CD album of Bartók’s didactic Mikrokosmos from 1955 (Sony 52528). bookstore.juilliard.edu /shopping/product_details.php?id=18737   (423 words)

Amazon.com: Bartók: The Three Piano Concertos: Music: Bela Bartok,Esa-Pekka Salonen,Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,Yefim Bronfman This is the recording of Bartók's piano concertos the world has been waiting for. The piano concertos were anything but, smooth and easy to digest, instead they were full of technique and bomb blasting orchestrial music. Having recently praised the beauties of the Pierre Boulez recording of the three Bartók piano concertos each with a different orchestra and soloist (Zimmerman, Grimaud, Andsnes), returning to this wholly satisfying CD with Yefim Bronfman at the keyboard and Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic traversing these miraculous concerti is grounding. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002AWA?v=glance   (1112 words)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto 21 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Piano Concerto No.21, KV 467 Mozart's fascination with the piano concerto parallels Europe's interest in the piano itself. It was in March of 1785 that Mozart composed his Concerto no. 21, completing it merely one month after his previous concerto. w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/mozart_piano_con21.html   (434 words)

Sheet Music Plus - Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3 Prokofiev Piano Concerto #1 (2P4H) By Sergei Prokofiev... Piano duet score (2 copies necessary for performance) for two pianos four-hands. Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations For solo piano (or harpsichord... wwws.sheetmusicplus.com /sheetmusic/detail/WB.K03771.html   (103 words)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto 4 The program, consisting entirely of Beethoven premieres, began with the Symphony no. 6, followed, in order, by the concert aria, "Ah, perfido", two movements from the Mass in C major, the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Symphony no. 5, and, last but not least, the Choral Fantasy. The concerto was dedicated to the composer's friend, student, and patron, the Archduke Rudolf, to whom he would later dedicate the Grosse Fugue, the "Archduke" Piano Trio, and three piano sonatas, including the massive "Hammerklavier." Beethoven played the Fourth Concerto at a private concert given in March of 1807 at the Viennese palace of his faithful patron, the Prince Lobkowitz. w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/beethoven_piano_con4.html   (368 words)

Piano concerto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra. Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto Series A project to record and reassess the work of Romantic composers whose contributions to the development of the piano concerto (in some cases entire careers) have been neglected or forgotten. There also exist a number of compositions for piano and orchestra which treat the piano as a solo instrument while not being piano concertos. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_concerto   (736 words)

Piano Concerto (Grieg) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grieg's concerto is often compared to the Piano Concerto of Robert Schumann — it is in the same key, the opening descending flourish on the piano is similar, and the overall style is considered to be closer to Schumann than any other single composer. Grieg had heard Schumann's concerto played by Clara Schumann in Leipzig in 1858, and was greatly influenced by Schumann's style generally, having been taught the piano by Schumann's friend, Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel. The Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg was the only concerto Grieg completed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)   (496 words)

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