Bit different from Prokofiev 3 & Bartok 2 which I've just heard Lang2 play (again). Refreshing. Somehow reminds me of Cambridge & wet nights spent indoors listening to all sorts of music. Perhaps you too? Lucky students will now get to hear your music as well.
Thank YOU Nigel Hess.... for this absolutely sublime music that can only have been composed from love and passion you felt deep in your heart; it spoke through your soul, translated to the keyboards. And every beautiful note fills me with so much emotion. Well done also Lang Lang for playing with such passion.
I know nothing about music or anything. But, when I started losing sleep because of my depression and anxiety, I turned to classical music to help calm my mind. Today, I thought the whole day about finally ending my life. Then, i found this. I’ve always loved listening to Lang Lang, he always plays everything with so much emotion. Hearing him play this piece, it made me tear up so much. It gave me very wonderful feelings and i ended up thinking about all the things i was happy for before falling into this dark pit. I feel like it was fate that made me find your piece at the worst moment of my life. Thank you. I don’t know how else to express this feeling in me except to say thank you, thank you, thank you. I will definitely come back to listen to this again. Music is truly wonderful!
A modern composer who is not afraid of a romantic melody, giving such richness and, as some have pointed out, reflections of Rachmaninov, the most emotional of composers.
I Heard it today on the German classic radio and had to pull over and listen to the end I'll be a father in a few weeks And think of how it will be. I am so happy when I hear this music. It moves me to tears. The composer living genius. Thank you
I heard this tonight on Classic FM and had to sit in the car till it finished to find out what it was because it was so beautiful. I was on the verge of tears! Amazing composition and piano playing :)
Mr Hess what a privilege it is to hear this wonderful piece (time and again), my favourite modern-day piano classic and Lang Lang does it proud.............You are truly gifted............
This reminds me of the great days of the British Cinema that i grew up with in the late 1940's and early 50's. At the age of 73 it's nice to come across something like this.
One of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard and I hope I will never tire of it - many a tear has been shed listening to this. Makes me feel so privileged to be able to appreciate good music
Again i cannot stop listening to this beautiful brilliant piano 🎹 piece .it makes me go to places I have loved and of course my beautiful mother Shirley I miss her piano playing 😢. Thankyou Nigel Hess and Lang Lang for playing it xx
Nigel this is a stunning piece. Love it. Fun fact: My Sister knew you very briefly many years ago after meeting you at a show called "Happy As A Sandbag", I think you were MD. I've been interested in your career ever since ! 😄
I first heard one of your pieces played by Joshua Bell at Ravinia in Chicago, and I fell in love. I looked you up as soon as I got home and discovered this gorgeous piece. I would sacrifice almost anything in my life to be able to write music like this, but sadly, this is not the kind of music they teach in American universities. Beautiful piece.
I live in the USA and often listen to Classic FM. I first heard this piece on Classic FM. Now whenever I want I list to it on UA-cam. Among the most beautiful pieces of music ever.
I've just heard this number on FM and could'nt wait to hear it once again.What an beautiful and soothing number!!Very romantic. I almost cried! Thank you so much for sharing.
No meer words are adequate to express the emotions this beautiful piece of music brings to us. I wish everyone could hear it and take its effect into their lives.THANK you Nigel & Lang Lang!
I did the same thing Rhoda, and have finally tracted it down on my 88th birthday! I would love to see this danced to by a pair of talented dancers, as I have when listening to it again!
This piano piece holds a beautiful memory it was one of my beautiful mother #Shirleys 😢favourite pieces . I miss her so very much .music evokes such wonderful feelings. I miss her piano playing .❤
First time I am listening this piece from local classical FM, 92.4 Symphony FM .... Then I tried to find it on youtube. What a beautiful arrangement of 21th century music ... May b ppl will start to look into this piece again 50 years later. This piece has abit of Rachmaninov touch .....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Words are completely inadequate to express my gratitude for your creation of this piece of music so I will just say, thank you Nigel. It is VERY MUCH appreciated. Simonline 🇬🇧🤔😀👍
Phenomenal Lang Lang makes this particular piano piece the most beautiful thing to hear . I love piano . My mother played the piano and it is in my heart my mind and soul . Thankyou Lang Lang and Nigel hess for bringing music alive . VALERIEJANE X
If the music in heaven isn't this good, I am going to be disappointed.
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Nigel, what a stunning composition! I can't stop listening to it :) I recently had the fortune to meet the love of my life and I don't know whether my feelings grace the music or the music graces my feelings, but this is what it feels like :D Bravissimo!
I've just discovered this by chance on classic fm and it's absolutely beautiful. I'm currently stuck writing my own second movement and it will be interesting to see how this inspires me to complete it. In the meantime, thank you for a wonderful piece of music.
Truthfully, I never used to like much contemporary music, and if I did I was very maticulous. Listening to this has changed my idea on that. Everyone has their own preferences, and this is most certainly mine. Well done, it's utterly beautiful. Among the greats.
I love this so much have it in special file, to be viewed often, what magic! Maestro, between the two you, composer and pianist, something awesome has been heard xxxx
Hi Nigel. I stumbled upon this by accident, starting with the Ryan Anthony Song for Hope, then via Phil McCann playing your Hetty Wainthropp theme and then this - you know how UA-cam works - and it’s a gem. Incidentally, on my first day at college in Birmingham, in 1973, I met a double bass player called Steve Kelk who, as I was a trumpet player, asked me if I had heard of you. I always remember that whenever I hear a piece of yours. All the best. Ian C
Heard this on Classic FM, the show done by Prince Charles. Absolutely mesmerising - how have I got to now without knowing this stunning piece of music?
Sublîme interprétation ! !!Compositeur qui m'était inconnu et qui me rappelle un peu André Mathieu ! !Lang Lang quel grand artiste ......MERCI!!!!🎵 🎻 🎵 🎼 🎶 🎹 ❤
I found your music, Nigel, when I started watching Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (of all things!) and fell in love with the theme song. Your music touches my heart. I look forward to discovering more of it. Thank you
I've been playing this - radio, CD etc, sadly Not on the piano :p - for a couple of years, since I first heard it on ClassicFM. Beautiful - a touch of Rachmaninov. I love sitting in the little park, near to where I live, looking at the roses, or whatever the season allows, and listening on my iPhone. Sheer Bliss! :-)
This music is so very beautiful, thank you for it as it touches my very soul and transports me to my love who was a Pilot, no longer of this earth or time but eternally in my heart ❤
I heard this on Classic FM (UK radio) and wanted to know more about the pianist as it was so beautifully played: that was my introduction to Lang Lang. And this second movement is so tender.
I first discovered Nigel Hess’s music when watching Hetty Wainthrop investigates and heard the wonderful Theme music, googled it and discovered Nigel Hess. His compositions are so varied and I have never found anything I disliked.
![Lang Lang : Nigel Hess Piano Concerto [1st movt: The Smile]](/img/n.gif)
Finally a magnificent, romantic, melodic delightful piano concerto. There is hope for the world after all.
Thank you to all who have found this and enjoyed it. So grateful to Lang Lang for taking this piece to his heart....
My thanks to you for writing such a beautiful piece of music. It is one of my top favourites
I agree, yes indeed, Maestro Nigel Hess. I am composer also, but not famous already.
If you can write something as beautiful and touching as this then you soon will be famous.
Bit different from Prokofiev 3 & Bartok 2 which I've just heard Lang2 play (again). Refreshing. Somehow reminds me of Cambridge & wet nights spent indoors listening to all sorts of music. Perhaps you too? Lucky students will now get to hear your music as well.
Thank YOU Nigel Hess.... for this absolutely sublime music that can only have been composed from love and passion you felt deep in your heart; it spoke through your soul, translated to the keyboards. And every beautiful note fills me with so much emotion. Well done also Lang Lang for playing with such passion.
This is my most favorite piece of music of all that I have heard in my 😊80 years of life. Thank you so very much, Nigel.
Thank you so much, Karen.
Why is beautiful music so close to sadness? Perhaps because it awakens us to the possibility of a better world? It stirs our deepest longings.
I know nothing about music or anything. But, when I started losing sleep because of my depression and anxiety, I turned to classical music to help calm my mind.
Today, I thought the whole day about finally ending my life. Then, i found this. I’ve always loved listening to Lang Lang, he always plays everything with so much emotion. Hearing him play this piece, it made me tear up so much. It gave me very wonderful feelings and i ended up thinking about all the things i was happy for before falling into this dark pit. I feel like it was fate that made me find your piece at the worst moment of my life. Thank you. I don’t know how else to express this feeling in me except to say thank you, thank you, thank you.
I will definitely come back to listen to this again.
Music is truly wonderful!
I agree music can really lift the spirits. I do hope you are not in such a dark place now and that music will continue to fill you with joy and peace
A modern composer who is not afraid of a romantic melody, giving such richness and, as some have pointed out, reflections of Rachmaninov, the most emotional of composers.
I Heard it today on the German classic radio and had to pull over and listen to the end I'll be a father in a few weeks And think of how it will be. I am so happy when I hear this music. It moves me to tears. The composer living genius. Thank you
Best wishes on being a great father!
I heard this tonight on Classic FM and had to sit in the car till it finished to find out what it was because it was so beautiful. I was on the verge of tears! Amazing composition and piano playing :)
Rhoda Pickens, couple weeks ago and 2 years after you I heard it at deep night on Classic FM. And now it's my turn to be on the verge of tears:)
I have just heard this on late night Classic FM (July 2018) and I too am now a fan of this truly beautiful piece of music.
So was I
Extremely moving piece - thanks to Classic Fm for introducing it to me -
So was I today 🥰
Mr Hess what a privilege it is to hear this wonderful piece (time and again), my favourite modern-day piano classic and Lang Lang does it proud.............You are truly gifted............
This is wonderfully romantic yet powerful. As beautiful as Ladies in Lavender score.
This reminds me of the great days of the British Cinema that i grew up with in the late 1940's and early 50's. At the age of 73 it's nice to come across something like this.
One of my favourite pieces of music. If I was famous I would have it as one of my desert island discs.
One of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard and I hope I will never tire of it - many a tear has been shed listening to this. Makes me feel so privileged to be able to appreciate good music
1964tamsin totally agree, emotional and so well played by Lang Lang!
The best composition of Maestro Nigel Hess, forever, i think. God may bless him always.
Lang Lang makes me cry on this one.
Have been a huge fan of this piece for ages, and I just heard someone in the neighboring practice room practicing it. Made my day. 😁
Nigel Hess has brought us the brilliance and artistry of the great composers of the past.
Thank You Nigel Hess for breaking my heart so beautifully - conjures thoughts of a bygone time like Rachmaninov in Brief Encounter
Thank you so much for letting me hear this masterpiece!!!
Greetings from Germany!
Your music and Lang Lang's piano skills.......match made in heaven. Thank you
Again i cannot stop listening to this beautiful brilliant piano 🎹 piece .it makes me go to places I have loved and of course my beautiful mother Shirley I miss her piano playing 😢. Thankyou Nigel Hess and Lang Lang for playing it xx
Nigel this is a stunning piece. Love it. Fun fact: My Sister knew you very briefly many years ago after meeting you at a show called "Happy As A Sandbag", I think you were MD. I've been interested in your career ever since ! 😄
What a fantastic and atmospheric rendition of the masterpiece of composition. A thousand thanks.
Always a solemn,sad & favourite…
I first heard one of your pieces played by Joshua Bell at Ravinia in Chicago, and I fell in love. I looked you up as soon as I got home and discovered this gorgeous piece. I would sacrifice almost anything in my life to be able to write music like this, but sadly, this is not the kind of music they teach in American universities. Beautiful piece.
I live in the USA and often listen to Classic FM. I first heard this piece on Classic FM. Now whenever I want I list to it on UA-cam. Among the most beautiful pieces of music ever.
Charles Short it’s awesome, Australia,
I've just heard this number on FM and could'nt wait to hear it once again.What an beautiful and soothing number!!Very romantic. I almost cried! Thank you so much for sharing.
Utterly sublime.....this piece of music is indescribably gorgeous. Thank you Mr Hess
Utterly beautiful . Never tire of listening to it. Especially lovely in the early hours when I can’t sleep.
No meer words are adequate to express the emotions this beautiful piece of music brings to us. I wish everyone could hear it and take its effect into their lives.THANK you Nigel & Lang Lang!
Bravo Nigel! - Bravo Lang!
A new romantic of the first order. Fantastic.
I did the same thing Rhoda, and have finally tracted it down on my 88th birthday! I would love to see this danced to by a pair of talented dancers, as I have when listening to it again!
Bravo Nigel Hess! Another exquisite piece! Your phrases are so beautiful and uplifting.
This piano piece holds a beautiful memory it was one of my beautiful mother #Shirleys 😢favourite pieces . I miss her so very much .music evokes such wonderful feelings. I miss her piano playing .❤
First time I am listening this piece from local classical FM, 92.4 Symphony FM .... Then I tried to find it on youtube. What a beautiful arrangement of 21th century music ... May b ppl will start to look into this piece again 50 years later. This piece has abit of Rachmaninov touch .....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
such a beautiful piece, runs inside my head along with my whole life.
Words are completely inadequate to express my gratitude for your creation of this piece of music so I will just say, thank you Nigel. It is VERY MUCH appreciated. Simonline 🇬🇧🤔😀👍
Mike Tall,
I felt my soul lifting up to a higher plane when listening to this beautiful piece of music. I just wanted it to go on and on !
absolutely brilliant, I adore this piece of music. I first heard it on Classic FM, and fell in love with it.
What a beautiful beautiful piece of music.It moved me to tears
Absolutely Beautiful. Thank you .
The best piece of music I have ever heard,moves me to tears every time I have the pleasure of hearing it being played.
Absolutely beautiful! First heard it on Classic FM and can't understand why it hasn't been played more often
Just superb! Ought to be played a lot more ie Classic FM. Lang Lang - the best!
Wish my late wife were with me listening now love you susan Geoff
Soo beautiful! Happy to found this track!
What a beautiful piece.. And stunningly played too.
Phenomenal Lang Lang makes this particular piano piece the most beautiful thing to hear . I love piano . My mother played the piano and it is in my heart my mind and soul . Thankyou Lang Lang and Nigel hess for bringing music alive . VALERIEJANE X
Thank you Nigel Hess, Thank you Lang Lang, Thank you mighty Music :)
If the music in heaven isn't this good, I am going to be disappointed.
Nigel, what a stunning composition! I can't stop listening to it :) I recently had the fortune to meet the love of my life and I don't know whether my feelings grace the music or the music graces my feelings, but this is what it feels like :D
Bravissimo!
Epic............Composer and performer............a great combination.
Beautiful, serene and so emotive, a modern day classic.
Superbly written and performed just brilliant thanks so much for this masterpiece, love it
I can't tell you how much I love this......
I feel happy listening to this beauty. I'd absolutely love to hear more Romantic-style compositions.
This has been a very special piece to me for such a long time, beautifully composed and elegantly played, thank you
Fantastic by Lang Lang...I love it. Thank you Nigel Hess
Here from classic FM! :D beautiful
Beth M Beth, its absolutely the best I have heard in a long time, oozes emotion and feeling!
Beautiful
simply stunning
Gorgeous and so moving!
Mes larmes coulent à chaque fois, sur cette interprétation. Bcp d'émotions. Superbe .Merci
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for downloading this true gem
after hearing this on classicfm a week or so back, came back on here to listen - thanks for this, Great piece! Must learn to play it now...
Superb!
I love this piano music. Exhilarating, passionate, mesmerizing and so -- Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this on You Tube.
Dear maestro Nigel Hess, thank you for the most beautiful 8,37 minutes of my life! 🙏
Beautiful music. Thanks for sharing
I've just discovered this by chance on classic fm and it's absolutely beautiful. I'm currently stuck writing my own second movement and it will be interesting to see how this inspires me to complete it.
In the meantime, thank you for a wonderful piece of music.
wonderful and beautiful music!!!!!
Beautiful music is always uplifting when Lang Lang is involved
Absolutely beautiful and moving 🧡💕🥳 Thank you Nigel for creating such magnificent piece 👏👏👏
Truthfully, I never used to like much contemporary music, and if I did I was very maticulous. Listening to this has changed my idea on that. Everyone has their own preferences, and this is most certainly mine. Well done, it's utterly beautiful. Among the greats.
I love this so much have it in special file, to be viewed often, what magic! Maestro, between the two you, composer and pianist, something awesome has been heard xxxx
Beautiful......
Hi Nigel. I stumbled upon this by accident, starting with the Ryan Anthony Song for Hope, then via Phil McCann playing your Hetty Wainthropp theme and then this - you know how UA-cam works - and it’s a gem. Incidentally, on my first day at college in Birmingham, in 1973, I met a double bass player called Steve Kelk who, as I was a trumpet player, asked me if I had heard of you. I always remember that whenever I hear a piece of yours. All the best. Ian C
Heard this on Classic FM, the show done by Prince Charles. Absolutely mesmerising - how have I got to now without knowing this stunning piece of music?
Wow! What more can I say. 😮
So passionate!!! LOVELY!!! Thanks Nigel for composing it and Lang Lang for performing it.
sooo. so beautiful!
Such a lovely piece of music..love from Kerala,India
Sublîme interprétation ! !!Compositeur qui m'était inconnu et qui me rappelle un peu André Mathieu ! !Lang Lang quel grand artiste ......MERCI!!!!🎵 🎻 🎵 🎼 🎶 🎹 ❤
Wonderfull! Bravo to you!
I’ve played the American pieces and ladies in lavender. It is all so wonderful to play.
Such beautiful music
I found your music, Nigel, when I started watching Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (of all things!) and fell in love with the theme song. Your music touches my heart. I look forward to discovering more of it. Thank you
Wonderful, completely.
I've been playing this - radio, CD etc, sadly Not on the piano :p - for a couple of years, since I first heard it on ClassicFM. Beautiful - a touch of Rachmaninov. I love sitting in the little park, near to where I live, looking at the roses, or whatever the season allows, and listening on my iPhone. Sheer Bliss! :-)
Amazing music, amazing performance
This music is so very beautiful, thank you for it as it touches my very soul and transports me to my love who was a Pilot, no longer of this earth or time but eternally in my heart ❤
Absolutely beautiful rendition Lang Lang and Nigel Hess you are a wonderful composer, thank you so much for this beautiful piece of music ❤️
heard this movement yesterday and thought it very beautiful
Only one thing would make it better, to see your face whilst you play it!
I heard this on Classic FM (UK radio) and wanted to know more about the pianist as it was so beautifully played: that was my introduction to Lang Lang. And this second movement is so tender.
Such a beautiful piece of music.
I am very grateful for your tutorial! I tried it and it worked perfectly! Thank you so much
I first discovered Nigel Hess’s music when watching Hetty Wainthrop investigates and heard the wonderful
Theme music, googled it and discovered Nigel Hess. His compositions are so varied and I have never found anything I disliked.
What a beautiful piece of pure joy and contentment, bliss!
This is beautiful...... I’m now eager for a flute concerto..... haven’t looked yet to see if here is ne.