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21 Symphonys? I haver not time ..

It's sad, that There is no Medtner's pno concerto. They are literally one of the greatest pieces EVER. i hope Medtner will get recognition in the future!

Awesome list! Would've definitely included Debussy's "L'isle Joyeuse"! That ending is fire!

Where is my Scriabin Fantasie :(

Isn’t it just unsettling to think there’s no Mozart? How awful!

Falla in the gardens of Spain have some wonderful climaxes too

Curious how all the climaxes are from ff to fffff

38/40, with bonus 42/40

Your joke about the unusually large violin in the very beginning of the video is what earned my subscription! I literally laughed out loud.

Scriabin Fantasie in B minor perf.Szidon. Filled with passion and drama

59/60. It’s official. I have wasted my life.

You really got to be a loser to be able to guess any of these concertos by just listening to them.

44/60. Got my Chopins mixed up and am weak on Mozart/Haydn. At least I got a bonus point

I've been given exactly this gem recording for Christmas some 48 years ago, - didn't realize then what an incredible feat Marylène Dosse has pulled off there!!!!

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Tbh I got most points possible, but I the only performers i got right were bernstein(conductor) by guess, and Perlman/Ashkenazy from listening to their version so much

I literally got all the rachmaninoffs, chopins, and the singular bach completely right, but nothing else. I guess that shows my music taste lol

Esse homem foi professor de Tchaikovsky ❤.

on my road to listen to every piece of music by Moszkowski, starting with Op. 1 (good start)

Damn, someone with similar music tastes to mine for once - Medtner, Blumenfeld, Godowsky, Bortkiewicz, Ravel, Chopin, Scriabin, and a slightly concerning amount of Rachmaninoff :) The one similar composer that I'm missing here would be Ornstein, or his early works at least. For example, the Piano Quintet consists to like 50% of epic moments, although most of them flow almost too well into the surrounding sections to be proper stand-out climaxes (my pick would probably be Mvt. 2 around 8 min. up to the Languido, or the last Risoluto of Mvt. 3). Alternatively, you can't go wrong with the Dance of the Fates' final climax (that's basically half the piece, I know, but it's short enough)

There sould be more Medtner!!! He has so many amazing climaxes (for example in his piano concertos, there is so much of them, Sonata g minor, sonata a mino "war", sonata night wind, sonata romantica, sonata minacciosa sonata no 1, sonata opu 11 no 2, Piano quintet, Opus 41, Opus 58, skazka opus 20 no 2 and lot, A LOT of more!)

Climax

Yay, Medtner is mentioned! But there should be more of him. In his sonata night wind, sonata romantica, sonata g minor, a minor, 3rd piano conceto, and other piano concertos are even better climaxes than in sonata ballad!

Scandaleux que ce concerto ne soit jamais, ou presque, joué !

Afraid to say I’ve never gotten much out of Anton Rubinstein. And this piece is no different for me, but I’ll keep trying.

Damn. I really appreciate the amount of work you have done to get this together and the information too. ❤

Very nice recording. Rubinstein is definitively underrated as a composer. Question: this is my first time I've seen the orchestral parts above the actual piano part in a score in which the 2nd piano is playing orchestral parts. This caught my eye.

The Symphonic Dances contain a great "Ghost Waltz" second movement with this haunted clarinet mixed in with the woodwinds. I am very fond of Ghostly waltzes, having written five of them myself for female choir, piano and orchestra.

The last few minutes tells me why Rubinstein's reputation is what it is. Page after page of octaves for no good reason

What a pity we almost NEVER hear it. THANK YOU, Maestro, for this wonderful performance ♥

18:09 1st Mvt Cadenza

I disagree with those who find this piece "boring" or "only worth listening to once". I find it to be fascinating, with just the right touch of exoticism that might have made even Saint-Saëns a bit jealous.

The Elgar Cello Concerto is one of the most powerful pieces of music ever written; every time I listen to it I just feel as if there is an overwhelming weight just crushing me...hopefully I'll get to hear it live some day. I recently heard The Planets live...it was an absolutely incredible experience; at times, defeaning but I got chills all throughout it.

Odysseus, thanks for bringing attention to this work, and also to Avdeeva. She's on my top 1 list. Her playing is beauty incarnate.

Great!! 🎉

Sounds like studio ghibli, really cool

you deserve way more subs

sodelicious............................

About 40 minutes in, I was telling myself: "there's so much piano music, it's unavoidable that Prokofiev 2nd piano concerto 1st mvt. climax is gonna be there". 30 minutes later, I was losing all hope and there it is at rank 3 ( 1:16:42 ). OMG what a chilling spine piece of music this whole concerto is. I highly recommend the videos where Anna Vinnitskaya is the performer!!!

Um trabalho maravilhoso. Gosto dos comentários e da analise . Uma viagem ao mundo maravilhoso da música. Parabéns !

LOVED this compilation! Only thing it was missing was Chopin's Ballade No 1 in G minor :) That one holds a special place in my heart

Some really amazing climaxes here. I'm not surprised Rachmaninov features a lot - he was a master of writing climaxes (in fact climaxes leading to bigger climaxes leading to even bigger...). Rach Prelude 32-13 is a great example (awful performance though). Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy goes beyond a musical climax. Alternatives to Shost/Bruck here are Shostakovich Symphony 7 (first movement), Bruckner 4 last movement. A couple of others I'd add - Schoenberg Gurrelieder ending, Walton's 1st symphony (sections in 1st or 4th movement).

Mainstream

Great video, love the commentary, thanks.

PART 1 0:09 40) Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85 (1919): I. Adagio - Moderato performed by Camille Thomas and the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gergely Madaras Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a pinnacle of the cello repertoire - which isn’t surprising, considering its lyrical power, contained in the enchanting melodies played by the cello. Much like Schumann’s own one, the concerto has a power to establish a specific atmosphere - something somehow both passionate and contemplative at once. The climax here occurs in the first half of the first movement, and is obtained through a gradual crescendo by both the solo cello and a rumbling bass line beneath it, the soloist driving all melodic energy into a rising upwards scale before a tension-releasing orchestral tutti. 1:23 39) Holst: The Planets, op. 32 (1917): I. Mars, The Bringer of War (Allegro) Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult Mars’s terrifying sonorities and march-like snare drum line on a 5/4 bar resonate as a harbinger of a great war to come, which probably wasn’t what anyone wanted to hear right after the end of WW1, when this work was premiered. Was he wrong, though? 2:46 38) Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139 (1852): XI. Harmonies du soir performed by Vladimir Ovchinnikov Liszt’s Études, particularly the last ones, are some of his best works and partly cross the line into impressionism. This climax is just straightforward Lisztian jumps and octaves, though- but it gains all its grandeur from the contrasting contemplative piece preceding it., and requires a LOT of stamina to carry out in its entirety. 4:12 37) Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major, op. 61 (1846) performed by Kate Liu (during the 2015 XVII Chopin Competition) Chopin isn’t renowned for climaxes. Apart from a few individual pieces (Ballades, Scherzos, certain Nocturnes and Preludes) there isn’t much of his music where he seems that interested in developing painstaking crescendos and grand climactic moments. This piece, one of his last, is a rather surprising exception. From the opening resonating meditatively in an almost late-Beethovenian way, the nostalgic Polonaise that follows quiets down before suddenly rising back up with as little preparation as a little modulation and four bars of rising scales at unison, erupting into a flurry of octaves, obstinate chords and trills. 5:52 36) Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 (1868): I. Allegro molto moderato performed by Krystian Zimerman and the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan I see Grieg’s Concerto often dismissed as too straightforward. Whatever you may think, you’ve got to admit the build-up during the cadenza here, while not that complex harmonically, is masterfully written. Just picture a concert hall, the orchestra silent - those trills, those chords interspersed with lyrical lines, that low D, the entire audience holding their breaths (and coughs) during that small pause, as if stopping time, before resuming pianissimo with those rising upwards arpeggios in the left hand and the now-anxious, now-desperate theme in the right, the sound as if leaking in from another dimension before building up and making us sh*t our pants with a fortissimo. What’s not to love? 7:39 35) Rachmaninoff: Trio Élégiaque n°1 in G minor (1892) performed by Lang Lang (piano), Vadim Repim (violin) and Mischa Maisky (cello) Rachmaninoff’s first, very early Trio doesn’t even have an opus number, and its dedicatee is unclear, but it deserves full recognition. The climax starts with a lyrical solo cello line, before building up with descending figurations on the piano, before erupting into furious chords and upwards scales. The climax drags on for a long while without resolving, finding solace only when the music has quieted back down for a rather deceased funeral march. 9:33 34) Rachmaninoff: Sonata n°1 in D minor, op. 28 (1908): I. Allegro moderato performed by Nikolai Lugansky Rachmaninoff’s incredible first Sonata is full of attractive themes and showcases some real architectural talent. The first movement’s climax is a pretty unusual one on the composer’s behalf, lacking the usual exhibit of scandalous chords, relying instead on chromaticism to achieve another sonority. See the result for yourself. 10:52 33) Brahms: Piano Concerto n°1 in D minor, op. 15 (1858): I. Maestoso performed by Yuja Wang and the Münchner Philharmoniker, conducted by Valery Gergiev While searching for a good recording of this part of Brahm’s great first Concerto, I was mostly looking for good timpani - the rumbling sound below the piano and orchestra is really what sets this climax apart from the lot, like an erupting volcano. And Yuja Wang’s awesomeness, of course. 12:42 32) Medtner: Piano Sonata n°8 in F# major (“Sonata-Ballade”), op. 27 (1914): III. Finale: Allegro performed by Geoffrey Tozer Medtner’s Sonata-Ballade is one of his best works, and also one of his most (relatively) graspable at first listen. The Coda of the third movement features a return of the main theme from the first movement, now devoid of its contemplative sense to showcase a grandiose declamation, accompanied by bell-like figuration in the RH. Something about those last cadential chords, too - I don’t know why, it’s simple I-vi-V7-I harmony, but they’re written, voiced, timed in such a way I have yet to encounter a better closing cadence for any piano work. 13:41 31) Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto n°1 in F# minor, op. 1 (1917 ed.): I. Vivace performed by Anna Fedorova and the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, conducted by Modestas Pitrenas A great climax during the cadenza of the climax king’s first concerto, during which a crescendo erupts into typical Rachmaninoff torturous chords quoting the first theme. Also, just before the Maestoso part, one of the best bass drops in music I’ve seen.

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Got 44 points. I have to work on my listening repertoire haha.