I. Grave - 00:09 II. Cadenza - 4:21 III. Andante - 6:12 IV. Lento, Maestoso, Solenne - 17:08 V. Moderato - 23:07

@howardstern8119

Жыл бұрын

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Bortkiewics is a hidden treasure just liek Moszkowski. I can't believe their piano concerto's aren't mainstream

@Roescoe

2 жыл бұрын

Most likely to not being in fashion with 20th century music. Their actually beautiful music will live on a lot longer though.

@brazilamaral

2 жыл бұрын

This is not very good

@Roescoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@brazilamaral Please elaborate

@Roescoe

2 жыл бұрын

Oof removed "I could write something better". Yeah, I was waiting for you to make a stupid claim. I do actually encourage people to write good music though. Your channel appears to only repost other musicians performances.

@brazilamaral

2 жыл бұрын

@@Roescoe I deleted because I did not hear the whole thing. but probably I am correct.

Organ and bells, WHAT A FINALE!

I am absolutely floored by this concerto, just wow. I love everything, but the climax at 26:25 really speaks to me. It's a shame that something this beautiful is so unknown. I will definitely learn this concerto and (hopefully) play it.

@kunalex4236

Жыл бұрын

That part is literally a copy from liszts second piano concerto.

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

@@kunalex4236 Tchaikovsky literally stole from Liszt’s 2nd also, in fact there’s an octave passage in his B-flat minor Concerto which steals note for note. Nobody really cares, because the music is still great. I would say in this case it’s Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony he had in mind, because it has the same effect and Bortkiewicz was living in Vienna at the time, so probably knew it.

@careyhendersonvocalstudios5429

6 ай бұрын

@@danielgloverpiano7693 "Good composers borrow; great ones steal." -- Igor Stravinsky (allegedly)

I love finding unknown composers, definitely gling to listen to more of Bortkiewicz's works.

@emilyhutjes

8 ай бұрын

Listen to his concerto NO: 1 !

2:43 : this is perhaps the most beautiful musical theme I've ever heard, so much harmony and emotion !

Certified hidden gem

One of my favourites piano concertos, maybe the most.

The title of "musical genius" is not over-effusive praise for Bortkiewicz. I really enjoyed this work - especially the ethereal effect starting at 18:28. Thanks so much for posting.

@Wuozlinga

2 ай бұрын

Yes. This section alone made him enter my personal all time hall of fame.

WOW ! This really pits the piano effectivly against the orchestra. Never a dull moment or trivial padding. Glorious !

Музыка, похожая сразу на всех и на всё)))

Every part of this concerto gives me goosebumps. The score looks like it's just bunch of arpeggios and chords, but that every arpeggios and chords are perfect.

Today I just discovered this concerto and oh my god this shit is just perfect. Just some bars after section 1 and I knew this composer was going places, really good places. It's nowhere near the stupid and useless harmonical levels of contemporary music (which I love) BUT DAMN this guy knows how to move harmonically without it being boring. Sometimes it felt as if Debussy wrote a Piano Concerto at his early years, damnnn I loved every minute of this piece. Really looking forward into more music from this Bortkiewics guy. Also, thanks KZread! Your strange recommendation led me to some fine art!

@towardthesea_

2 жыл бұрын

"Contemporary music" is not a monolith. Some of it is harmonically very simple, some of it is very harmonically complex, some of it dispenses with harmony altogether. And why compare it with this concerto? There are great Romantic works like this one and great contemporary works too.

Was seriously expecting some uninspirational, boring contemporary composer, but I am pleasantly surprised! This is a WONDERFUL concerto!! Bravo to the composer!!!

@towardthesea_

2 жыл бұрын

Plenty of contemporary music is neither "uninspirational" or "boring", regardless of what your stylistic preferences are (it's not a monolith either.) No need to (incorrectly) denigrate something else to praise this concerto.

It has been a very very long time since I came across a new piano concerto that I enjoyed this much

One of the best and most beautiful pieces ever written!

If I had a concerto to choose, that I needed to prepare and perform, it'd be this one. Obviously i don't have to, nor have I the skills to do it, but I dream about that only when I listen to this concerto.

6:13 reminded me of Skryabin (e.g. the 4th sonata). 9:04 reminded me of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. 11:39 reminded me of Rakhmaninov's 2nd concerto. 25:13 reminded me of the finale of Liszt's Eb major concerto.

@kofiLjunggren

Жыл бұрын

11:48 Scriabin Piano comcerto

@msb-pravo

5 ай бұрын

19:09-19:27 Used in half of the soundtracks))

@aidenpeleg2789

4 ай бұрын

Too me it's all overwhelmingly Wagner! Such a great find!

@Enkaptaton

2 ай бұрын

@@aidenpeleg2789 Indeed. I should listen again and make a list

@karrotkake

Ай бұрын

the whole concerto is quite scriabin-like

Hidden gem for sure...

for me to refer Aspera 0:00-15:22 Transition 15:33-17:00 Astra 17:01-29:00 Aspera motive: 5:20-6:12, 9:02-9:59, 14:30-15:08

Thank you! This is such a great concerto. Especially the last movement is amazing

First time hearing this composer. I think this is so underrated!

May God give you the strength to help youj manage your life My thoughts are with you

wow! What a fine concerto! (And with a part for organ in it!!)

Splendid.....ALWAYS repays Re-hearing!

@Pablo-gl9dj

Жыл бұрын

After several re-hearings I discovered that this is the original sound track for 'Star Wars'

@teimurazsoupymolduri4340

Жыл бұрын

Very true, my friend

The score video I needed! Thank you for your work

This is one of favorite concertos hand down! I just discovered Bortkiewicz; love it!

awesome! thanks for showing me this

So wonderful this concert and that lovable melody. Thank you very much. 🌷🌷🌷(Netherlands)

another great treasure, fantastic!!

Simply mesmerizing!

Magnificent!

Gives me Kurt Atterberg vibes.

Super !

The wonderful thing about our extraordinary electronic age is that today we can hear and study the superlative mastery of those composers/performers whose innovations enabled giants (like Rachmaninov in his case) to emerge. Thankfully, the history of art is no longer about the giants but grounded on our understanding and appreciation of those contributing to the context by which geniuses were able to emerge.

If a lift ride needed 29 minutes of music, this concert would be perfect.

This is FIRE!

Um tesouro!

I checked my collection and I have the very recording on CD!

To my ear, the fourth movement - 17:08, marked slow, majestic, solemn - is one of the most moving in the orchestral repertory (Tchaikovsky included). Why it is so unknown is a mystery.

Oooooh nice

Great

26:26 my hearttt

I agree... et on peut ajouter Paderewski, tous des musiciens extraordinaires dont je n'avais jamais entendu parler il y a 6 mois. Amazing! Vive la musique slave...

9:21 Concerto No. 2 quote

Genius

Que bien ... !

I "think" this concerto was influenced by Edward MacDowell's piano concerto 2, but I am unsure. Even so, this piano concerto is a must listen. It's better than MacDowell's concerto in my opinion. 10:41 is what makes this entire concerto worth it. It shows a classic Bortkiewcz who demonstrates powerful orchestral techniques. This is a great teaching moment on how an excellent theme that is properly harmonized can engage a listener. Then he takes it even further and leads to an even more powerful derivative of the theme at 11:55 with the piano taking the lead here. I'm definitely learning a lot from this man's compositional style, and the power of buildup and tension.

@supasayajinsongoku4464

6 ай бұрын

Derivative????

1:28 is this a reference to the beginning of the fugato variation in Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune?

@dulvab9968

Жыл бұрын

It's possible but I can't find any information about it.

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

@@dulvab9968it could also be a reference to Beethoven Opus 111, and his own C minor Concerto, both of which pertain to human struggle, as does this piece.

The first theme in allegro vivace of the first movement sounds a bit similar to Beethoven's sonata no 32, was he inspired from it?

Hey, that's the Motto of my university!

And I thought my concert piece 'Octavius' had a lot of octaves!

How many Wagner Leitmotivs can on hide in a piano concerto? Bortkiewicz: Yes

Does anybody know where I can get the link of full orchestra score?

@KapellmeisterBach

4 ай бұрын

Imslp

@PurpleSpaceKR

4 ай бұрын

@@KapellmeisterBach no there isn't...

hahah. Final act of die walküre on some parts of the first movement

I hear a lot of Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto in this one. I wonder who copied who?

@segala7853

Жыл бұрын

You can hear elements of all the popular piano concertos The beginning mirrors Rachmaninoffs second concerto and quotes it alot This is perfectly fine

I can't be the only one to hear the similarities to tchaikovsky romeo and juliet

So many ads dude wtf

@SeigneurReefShark

Жыл бұрын

Really ? I use ad block and I have no clue about it. KZread really sucks for this, I'm sorry about that, i can't do anything

@somonerandom706

Жыл бұрын

@Seigneur ReefShark oh I see that makes sense. Sorry it was such a good video and piece of music I was just disappointed every time an ad came up. Thanks for posting these works!

I know exactly why this isn't mainstream. I'll tell you if you ask.

@therakeshkrishna

8 ай бұрын

Why?

@mugo_music

24 күн бұрын

bro forgot

The piano concerto that Wagner never composed 🤔

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

Yes, yes, yes ❤❤❤! There are also references to Richard Strauss, and Mahler at the end. There’s a Parsifal motive, and the Resurrection Symphony. Given that he was living in Vienna when he composed it, it’s not surprising.

@kaleidoscopio5

8 ай бұрын

​@@danielgloverpiano7693😌😌😌

If you like Romantic concertos you will certainly enjoy this one. It resides in the same neighborhood as Rachmaninov but lacks the tightness of form that keeps a work bound together. The first movement just goes on and on with no sense that it will ever end. Of course, by 1926 the world of classical music was going modern. The new stuff made this sound a bit old fashioned.

@KenBreadbox

Жыл бұрын

I think that lack of tightness of form is intentional. It is aspera after all, and aspera never seems like it's going to end.

@stephenjablonsky1941

Жыл бұрын

@@KenBreadbox The great composers always prepared the end in advance and when it arrives it is right on time.

@mostafa12890

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@stephenjablonsky1941 That is intentional. In this case, the movement is intentionally written in a way that doesn’t allude to an end. It’s in the name.

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Sound a bit like Beethoven Op.111

Rachmaninoff moment

Much wandering but never finding a home.

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

That’s literally what the piece is about. Look up what „Per aspera ad astra“ means. The composer did a great job, because you got what he was going for. Good on you!

è bello e c'è Rachmaninoff

Might have been a hit if it had commenced at 2:43 and ended with a loop-to-fade of the C minor phrase at 16:37. The C major "stars" ending is bombastic and naff. The intro's not very nice either.

Is this even meant to be played by humans?

@SeigneurReefShark

2 жыл бұрын

What else than a human could play it so well ?

@PieInTheSky9

2 жыл бұрын

@@SeigneurReefShark Gods

I'm not sure what to say. I wanted to like it, but overall felt that this was a somewhat uninteresting concerto, even compared to other works by the same composer. Can't please them all, I suppose.

@PieInTheSky9

2 жыл бұрын

Profoundly disagree.

@biggreenlzrd

2 жыл бұрын

@@PieInTheSky9 That's OK. The nice thing about music is that different pieces appeal to different tastes. I'm glad you enjoy it, but it's not something I'll be adding to my repertoire anytime soon.

@kaleidoscopio5

Жыл бұрын

It is an interesting Concerto, but the Second one is far more inspired 😊

OMG.... As if a minor talented boy composer pressed out that his beloved girl doesn't want him

@segala7853

Жыл бұрын

Why the animosity man

@andreassorg7294

Жыл бұрын

@@segala7853 why not

There are 3 categories (not only) in Russian music: The 1st (the highest): geniuses, who open future doors for the progress of musical language like Glinka, Tchaikowsky, Mussorgky, Scriabin, Prokofjev, Strawinsky, Shostakowitch, Schnittke The 2nd: (the middle): minor geniuses, who fulfill, what the 1st category achieved like Rachmaninov, Ljapunov, Glasunov, Kalinnikov, Borodin, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov etc. The 3rd (the lowest): amateurs, who don't care about anything and fulfill their own inability like Bortkiewicz

@matthewli647

Жыл бұрын

disagree but ok

@andreassorg7294

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewli647 where do you disagree?

@andrewpetersen5272

Жыл бұрын

Find him a bit of a hack.

@andrewpetersen5272

Жыл бұрын

Rachmaninoff in the second tier. You're a bit loopy.

@andrewpetersen5272

Жыл бұрын

Glinka was a mediocre miniaturist. Kitsch in his own time.

Beautiful to listen to but otherwise not very interesting.

Only sequences and repetitions, but very honest music, which doesn't hide its worthlessness

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

And why is it worthless in your estimation, given the many positive comments on this thread? I would say worthless music would be most pop music. This is far from worthless, especially in its effective and uplifting finale, which is reminiscent of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony. I hear influences of Wagner, Richard Strauss, of course Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. I have been performing a short Bortkiewicz Prelude in E-flat minor this season as an encore and it has received universal visceral reaction whenever I’ve played it. The response is always the same: how come we’ve never heard this great music before? As you say, it’s honest and not pretentious at all. It expresses the trauma of the composer’s life very deeply and I’m sorry that this doesn’t move you. It moves me, and most who hear it. There are humans who can’t relate to a six hour Wagner opera, and yet that’s what moves me most and I find the most profound (especially Parsifal and Tristan). It’s subjective, of course.

@andreassorg7294

8 ай бұрын

@@danielgloverpiano7693 First of all: Thank you for discussing with me in a serious way. It's the esception here. I mean "worthless" in an artistic way, not in a moral. Of course you can join the composer's life with his work and judge it, but you also cannot, like I do. It's only 2 kinds of points of view. Easily said: I don't like composers, who are fallen out of time and ignore, what was achieved already. Bort composed like (bad) Tchaikovsky, when there was already Skrjabin, Rachmaninov, even Prokofjev, Strawinsky etc. Would you appreciate a contemporary composer, who composed like Hindemith?

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

@@andreassorg7294 I have a hard time deciding where our contemporary composers are. We have minimalists like Philip Glass and there are many composers still writing in highly tonal idioms. I don’t think the concept of being original is so valued as it was in the early 20th Century. I recently went to Mason Bates’ opera The Revolution of Steve Jobs and it felt like it was highly indebted to John Adams. I noticed that the way the opera was structured (in 13 disjointed scenes, and all in one act) it was in the Mussorgsky tradition. The same is true of Berg’s Wozzeck. I liked the Bates but felt it was somewhat derived and not terribly original. You sound like a composer. Am I right? The closest I’ve gotten to composing is writing my own cadenzas for Mozart Concertos and I wrote one for the Clementi Concerto, which I performed a week ago. It was fun, but I stuck closely to his style, with no contemporary influence. There’s an atonal cadenza by Schnabel for one Mozart Concerto and I find it bizarre. Nice chatting with you. Yes, it’s refreshing to have real in depth discussions with someone as knowledgeable as you. Some of the effusive comments on here are a bit embarrassing. I would never pretend this was the greatest Concerto ever written, and can certainly see why it’s not standard repertoire, but it definitely has enough going on so that I would spend the energy to learn and perform it. I also think it has an instant appeal that audiences would appreciate and react enthusiastically to. It’s a language they’re familiar with and will absorb at first hearing.

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

@@andreassorg7294 PS a composer wrote a concerto for me in 2015. I gave the world premiere and later recorded it in Slovakia with the Slovak National Symphony. He asked me for a list of my favorite concertos to play and then proceeded to incorporate certain features in the piece. The finale owes something to Samuel Barber, especially rhythmically. I was amused to read in Barber’s biography that he had asked John Browning the same questions when he composed the Piano Concerto and there are definitely shades of Rachmaninoff’s writing in it, although the audience wouldn’t be aware of it. There’s a noodling finger passage in the finale taken straight from the Paganini Rhapsody, which Barber heard Browning perform with the NY Philharmonic. The two men worked closely together when the piece was being composed and I had the same fantastic experience. I feel as though “my” concerto is partially my own.

@andreassorg7294

8 ай бұрын

@@danielgloverpiano7693 Yes, I'm composer and pianist. Take a look at my works at IMSLP. Why not upload your cadencas there? It would be interesting. I agree with your 1st sentence. But maybe every man felt in all times like this with his contemporaries. If you feel yourself sure in German, let's continue in German, if you want to. You write about Bort 3? Unfortunately, I wouldn't spend energy to learn it...sorry. I already had no patience to listen to it... I hope I don't offend you, if you like him

18:40 why staccato, when legato is written??? The will even of bad composers should be respected

@segala7853

Жыл бұрын

Why are you even listening to it in the first place? So you can wag your fingers at the emotion being put onto the page?

@andreassorg7294

Жыл бұрын

@@segala7853 "Why are you even listening to it in the first place? " because without listening i can't judge, wise man🤣🤣

that's just terrible, I am sorry. Each bar more disconnected to the previous one.

@danielgloverpiano7693

8 ай бұрын

Did you listen to the whole piece? The piece has an overall arch that must be experienced before you can make such a judgement.

@altoclef4249

8 ай бұрын

then i'd like to see you write a piano concerto better than this one

@tj-co9go

6 ай бұрын

That's his style. You might not like it, and I can understand that. But there's a certain charm to it. Bortkiewicz was trying to express a different idea than what a more rigid structure would have allowed him.