Today is my mother's birthday, Feb. 20, 1925. She played Warsaw Concerto on the paino. it was her favorite and mine. Happy Birthday, Mom!!! And, thank you for everything! You were my greatest teacher and always will be. I love you.
Il Concerto di Varsavia, di Richard Addinsell, uno dei doni più belli e preziosi che l'uomo abbia ricevuto... Mi riporta indietro nel tempo: ai miei 18 anni. Grazie di cuore per questo meraviglioso risveglio! Ore 6:00 antimeridiane del 22 marzo 2024. E adesso si và in ufficio. 😢
My father had this piece of music, and I adored it. I remember once having a chest infection and running a high temperature. I was in bed, and it was a warm summer evening, and this music was going through my head until I drifted off to sleep! My father was sat with me the whole time. I was about 8 years old. Thanks Dad for all you did! 🙏🙏🙏
I was born in 1952, but my parents memories of a harsh Europe from 1939 to 1945 showed on their faces when we would listen to this. It remains one of my favourite “classical” pieces.
Today, 65 years ago I played the Warsaw Concerto in a final contest in Friesland - Bolsward - on a modest piano, but in a wonderfull setting on a small podium in a park lake with fountains all around. Yes, I won, and a free trip to Paris for a week, just before I went for military obligations at the Dutch Marine a week later. This piano piece always opens my mind to World War II crimes to people in Warshaw, which in my whole life does not find a place for mercy to .. your know who...
I learned to play this wonderful piece of music when I was young. My Father (Frank Reidy) was a friend of the composer and played (Clarinet) in the orchestra during the recording of the score for the film Dangerous Moonlight. I cannot listen to it without crying. This performance was truly excellent for such a young pianist. Very moving indeed. Francesco Reidy London 2011.
Bravo!!! I love this music. I used to play this when I was taking lessons at CCM (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) years ago, but I stopped practicing it so I am re-learning it.. This is like Rach 2. I love both of them.
Todos los conceptos expuestos son los que siento y atesoro!!! Maravilloso concierto. tocando yo está pieza musical cuando me recibí de profesora de piano. Año 1958,!!! Me inspiran hasta las lágrimas!
This concerto is a fabulous and wonderful composition standing the test of time. The first time I heard it I was 11 and my piano teacher, Mrs. Orr performed it off sheet music and I was blown away. I am 67 now and it still blows me away. mk
I lost my brother Ronald last Thursday... He was an amazing pianist and when I was a little girl he took me into a piano shop and played this piece. I love him and miss him so much. Thinking of you James. We have our memories, which we must embrace. RIP
Dan MacNamera and I used to lay on his bed in college, clothes on, and listen to this over, and over. Thank-you Dan for turning me on to this almost 40 years ago now. Great memories of you, and this music. Kathy Ballard xooxox
This was written as a kind of pastiche of a Rachmaninov concerto and it is brilliant in its way, condensing into one movement, as dictated by the needs of the film script, the essence of a full concerto.
One of my most loved piano concertos. I heard it years ago, and have always loved it. I don't care about the dangerous moonlight. Doesn't scare me! Grieg's in Am is my second favorite
My aunt was an accomplished pianist and a teacher. She returned from Italy in 1947 and moved in with us in NJ. My mother, her younger sister, was the violinist, and they had concretized in Europe before the war. I have fond memories of my aunt at her baby grand playing this for me when I was a child.
Such a beautiful and haunting piece of music. Rarely does music feed the soul as does this extraordinary classic. My father was Polish and whenever we walked into a certain club, the pianist would instantly play the Warsaw Concerto in honour of my father and all the other Poles who risked their lives fighting for this country. To the day my father died, he still had nazi shrapnel in his legs, which he got fighting at El Alemein and Monte Cassino.
First time I heard this piece of music was sixty years of ago I now 80 years of age.beautiful-score and my breast still bursts with excitement,wonderful ❤
Love it ! I played this as a young girl . Now an old woman and can no longer play the piano . I loved the way this pianist rendered one of the most beautiful concerts of this times . Pity it is not given the honor of a Grieg or a Rachmaninoff . Bravo !!
In 1960 my father bought a LP collection from Readers Digest, Popular Music Festival. Since then the Warsaw Concerto was one of the best inspirations I've had. Soon we had a piano, I took a music course and learned to play. Thank you, Addinsell.
Thank you for playing my favorite piece of music. I heard this when I was ten, it touched my soul and love to hear this piece always. I'm now old and just can't understand why I still love to hear this piece when it makes me cry.
Very beautiful! Reminds me of my favorite composer Rachmaninoff. Played it at the end of one of my piano classes today. A 15 year old said it made her cry,
This has been "the song" that makes my heart rejoice for years. The Technology we have now is so wonderful, I can just pick this up and play it a thousand times if I want to.
Faultless performance of a incredible composition it never fails to move you i have listened to this concerto since i was a lad ,am now 78 and it still have to hold back my tears ,so moving is it .
This is an engaging rendition of the Warsaw Concerto, the most significant instrumental work written in England during the war, still conjuring up a time and place better than any other piece. Simultaneously magical, inspirational and heart-wrenching … Chopin would dearly have loved to have written this one … all of his works were written from a strong, unwavering sense of patriotism, and a longing to return.
Ah! This brings back so many fond memories. It is sad that this fine concerto has fallen into disuse. It deserves far better. This is a fine start but probably too late. To all those of my generation: Enjoy!
Possibly influenced by Spike Milligan's description of it as "the Bloody Awful Warsaw Concerto". This description probably coloured by constant requests for it, as well as repetitions on radio, in 1941. Overexposure will generate antipathy. And of course, some people just don't like classical music.
@@johnlunnun9769 As well as the overexposure, I think he was disgusted at the blatant propaganda of it. It was "commercial" classical music, in that sense. It was composed to conjure an emotion and evoke a popular response.
Very impressed with your playing. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to play the piano keys with such speed and dexterity. OMG, your playing took my breath away. More success to you!
I cannot play this piece enough. It captures the heartbreak of war and is exquisite. Warsaw was truly desecrated yet there was always hope. Richard Adinsell is brilliant in conveying the tragedy yet the hope and will of the people. It was written during the ear ad part of an effort to keep the faith. I may be all wrong.
In terms of meaningful emotive music fitting the times (WW11) this is the most memorable for me since my then childhood. I lived then surrounded by central european music scores, plus a RAF father (bomber command) so the first piece of classical (style) music stayed with me ever since.
This music reminds me of my father. I remember when I was 8 in the 60's he had an LP with this concerto on and it used to get played on a Sunday afternoon, it used to make me feel sad 😢! I remember once I was running a high fever and this tune just went round and round in my head.
Interesting you should say that it made you sad. I also felt sad and the beauty and power of the song made me cry. Listened to it on my mother's album so many times as a young child. Interesting how people share some of the same experiences and emotions while listening to such beautiful and complex music. ❤
I learned this work when I was 12, 1 piano version. My classical trained teacher told me it was based on Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto & having played that at 16, I can hear the similarity. Never mind that, I still love it as a great movie theme.
A delight to hear and even more to see. I've often played it, it's rendering beautiful. I'm going to pick it up again. It's greatly performed........bravo, bravo......
CREO, que era muy pequeño...y..al escuchar esta melodia, al piano, SUPE LO QUE SIĢNIFICABA..EL AMOR..,y...cuando conociera el verdadero AMOR, trataria de acompañarme con esta melodia....😢😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
We went to a classical music night at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Theatre, back in the late 70's. Among the mind boggling presentations, was a guy who came running on stage in a tux. He apologized, explaining he was having a cigarette, as it wasn't his turn yet...but the next act balked at playing...nice laugh from the crowd, which turned serious when he then told us his mother was in the audience, and that this would be the last time she would be able to watch him play the piano, as she was dying. He said he was going to play his heart out. There wasn't a dry eye in the place, as he attacked the difficult chords of "Warsaw Concerto." I think I'd have had tears streaming down my cheeks, even WITHOUT the thought of his mother sitting up front, writhing her little hands.
Addinsel was definitely paying homage to Rachmaninoff with this beautiful piece. Rachmaninoff was offered the job (and refused) to score for the 1941 movie "Dangerous Moonlight." Addensell was brought in and told to score this film in a Rachmaninoff style. Addinsell complied and thus we have the very Rachmaninoff lush and beautiful themes running throughout this composition.
Qué paz me da...... Mi pieza clásica favorita... Ojalá hubiese tenido el privilegio de haber tocado el piano... Y concretamente esta maravillosa música
Yes. Fabulous piece. Addisell was British, but his concerto is very “Hollywoodesque,” in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was born near Novgorod, Russia. Two years after the movie “Dangerous Moonlight” was released, Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills CA, right next to Hollywood, where I was born and raised. So many memories.
Esta melodia le encantaba a mi padre, recuerdo de cuando era pequeña después de la cena nos llevaba a escucharla, aún cuando me parecía un poco triste me gustó. Ya pasó muchol tiempo y se quedó en mi memoria y cada vez que puedo la escucho y me deleito con esta joya musical.
This piece is absolute epic greatness. If only rachmaninoff had composed it. It is almost as if rachmaninoff stepped into the mind of Addinsell.... Also a shout out to the pianist Chris Hill...great performance!!!
Mostly because it isn't a full concerto. Its only 10 minutes long. Addinsall only wrote 1 movement for the film and recorded various versions for different parts of the film. So you never really realize that in the film its not complete. I think people who don't like it feel that way because in effect it is a Rachmaninoff parody.. Sounds like something LIberace would have played..
@@jonrosen7980 LIBERACE did. Often. He has an album of greatest hits and this is one of them. LIBERACE. did not use sheets this needed no page turner. He used his memory. ;-D
British movies of the period often used fine classical composers to provide wonderful “background” music-Vaughn Williams, Walton, Bliss, as well as Addinsel. They added fabulous tone and emotional depth to the films.
I studied this concerto 45 years ago! I just took out the sheet music last week to play it. It is truly a difficult piece to play but this was a joy to listen to. I never had the chance to perform with an orchestra but would have loved to been a true concert pianist. I was told I had the talent but not the funds to go to Julliard. Still, I never gave up and love playing the piano. This is one of my favorite pieces to play. He did an amazing job, as did the orchestra. Performing live is not the easiest thing to do but I loved it when I got the chance to play for the public.
45 years ago I was just eight and at junior school back then (between the ages of seven and eleven, for your information). I had only started learning the violin a year before. Now aged 53, I have been playing in an amateur orchestra for years (both violin and then viola!)
In my Teens,I was a figure skater(rollar,believe it or not!) This piece was my choice for my routine..(Edited for 3 minutes)1960..hearing it again brings me to tears!!
One of my favorite compositions! I discovered Addinsell composed the original music for “Scrooge”, the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol, starring Alistair Simm as Scrooge (which happens to be my favorite movie version of the story).
Priceless
Today is my mother's birthday, Feb. 20, 1925. She played Warsaw Concerto on the paino. it was her favorite and mine. Happy Birthday, Mom!!! And, thank you for everything! You were my greatest teacher and always will be. I love you.
It is also music for the complete
Orchestra.
Il Concerto di Varsavia, di Richard Addinsell, uno dei doni più belli e preziosi che l'uomo abbia ricevuto... Mi riporta indietro nel tempo: ai miei 18 anni. Grazie di cuore per questo meraviglioso risveglio! Ore 6:00 antimeridiane del 22 marzo 2024.
E adesso si và in ufficio. 😢
My father had this piece of music, and I adored it. I remember once having a chest infection and running a high temperature. I was in bed, and it was a warm summer evening, and this music was going through my head until I drifted off to sleep! My father was sat with me the whole time. I was about 8 years old. Thanks Dad for all you did! 🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful piece of music! 10:25 am
So very powerful
I have similar experience.
From the wonderful Wartime film " Dangerous Moonlight "........ Simply wonderful....
Sublime 🎼🎹🥀 10:25 pm
My mother is in hospital right now, she loves this piece of music, if you can, and if it's not against your Religion, pray for her please.
How's your mother?
@@bolognafalls she passed on.
@@MAZE4 I'm sorry for your loss. May she fly high.
@@bolognafalls thanks for that kind message friend.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I was born in 1952, but my parents memories of a harsh Europe from 1939 to 1945 showed on their faces when we would listen to this. It remains one of my favourite “classical” pieces.
I love this concerto 30 years - Addinsell - genius!
Today, 65 years ago I played the Warsaw Concerto in a final contest in Friesland - Bolsward - on a modest piano, but in a wonderfull setting on a small podium in a park lake with fountains all around. Yes, I won, and a free trip to Paris for a week, just before I went for military obligations at the Dutch Marine a week later. This piano piece always opens my mind to World War II crimes to people in Warshaw, which in my whole life does not find a place for mercy to .. your know who...
I learned to play this wonderful piece of music when I was young. My Father (Frank Reidy) was a friend of the composer and played (Clarinet) in the orchestra during the recording of the score for the film Dangerous Moonlight. I cannot listen to it without crying. This performance was truly excellent for such a young pianist. Very moving indeed. Francesco Reidy London 2011.
Bravo!!! I love this music. I used to play this when I was taking lessons at CCM (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) years ago, but I stopped practicing it so I am re-learning it.. This is like Rach 2. I love both of them.
so true brings tears in my eyes every time
Perfect!
Perfect for me.I had 6 years old when I listening for the first time. The sound,harmony and beauty was in the air.What memory!
Fantastic, I love this music.
Richard Addinsell was a gifted composer of many fine film scores. He deserves every performance
his music gets on the concert platform.
Si ascolta pju' volte e va sempre diritta al cuore.......
Listened to this as a kid in 1960s as Mum & Dad had a lot of old LPs and loved this one. This & Holst's Mars.
This concerto always fills me with hope. Life is bloody tough but listening to this I realise I´m fortunate to be here. Terrific pianist. Thank you.
Absolutely magnificent 👌
MY dad was born there & escaped the Nazys
I play this in my orchestra and it fills me with anxiety
Todos los conceptos expuestos son los que siento y atesoro!!! Maravilloso concierto. tocando yo está pieza musical cuando me recibí de profesora de piano. Año 1958,!!! Me inspiran hasta las lágrimas!
This concerto is a fabulous and wonderful composition standing the test of time. The first time I heard it I was 11 and my piano teacher, Mrs. Orr performed it off sheet music and I was blown away. I am 67 now and it still blows me away. mk
Quelle mani sulla tastiera sono un miracolo d'arte!
This was my mother's favorite piece of music, bless her soul. She passed 15 months ago.
I lost my brother Ronald last Thursday... He was an amazing pianist and when I was a little girl he took me into a piano shop and played this piece. I love him and miss him so much. Thinking of you James. We have our memories, which we must embrace. RIP
She had excellent taste sir
My sympathies
Mt favorite too. I hope it gave her lots of pleasure.
God bless 🙌
Courage 🍀🌿🍀🌿
You were blessed. May she R.I.P. 🎹
😮 BRILHANT .. BRAVO 👏👏👏👏👏my GOD AWESOME PERFORMANCE..👏👏👏👏👏
Dan MacNamera and I used to lay on his bed in college, clothes on, and listen to this over, and over. Thank-you Dan for turning me on to this almost 40 years ago now. Great memories of you, and this music. Kathy Ballard xooxox
This was the first record I bought. I have loved it for 40 years. Harp 2023.
This was written as a kind of pastiche of a Rachmaninov concerto and it is brilliant in its way, condensing into one movement, as dictated by the needs of the film script, the essence of a full concerto.
One of my most loved piano concertos. I heard it years ago, and have always loved it. I don't care about the dangerous moonlight. Doesn't scare me! Grieg's in Am is my second favorite
What a brilliant young man - and still in his teens, by the look of it !
Musica senza tempo, magnifica, unica ,emozionante ❤
My parents’ favorite. Married in 1946. Santa Barbara, CA.concert sobbed over by coeds during the war.
I love this piece especially when I could play it some years ago when i was younger and healthier.
I listened to this when I was young. It was one of my favorite pieces then, it continues to be today. So very powerful.❤
My aunt was an accomplished pianist and a teacher. She returned from Italy in 1947 and moved in with us in NJ. My mother, her younger sister, was the violinist, and they had concretized in Europe before the war. I have fond memories of my aunt at her baby grand playing this for me when I was a child.
Suonato quasi a memoria.......ancora piu' valorizzato! Musica sublime!!!
Such a beautiful and haunting piece of music. Rarely does music feed the soul as does this extraordinary classic. My father was Polish and whenever we walked into a certain club, the pianist would instantly play the Warsaw Concerto in honour of my father and all the other Poles who risked their lives fighting for this country. To the day my father died, he still had nazi shrapnel in his legs, which he got fighting at El Alemein and Monte Cassino.
First time I heard this piece of music was sixty years of ago I now 80 years of age.beautiful-score and my breast still bursts with excitement,wonderful ❤
O mesmo acontece comigo inclusive as idades coincidem!!!
@@ernestinaoliveira9575 👍❤️
Love it ! I played this as a young girl . Now an old woman and can no longer play the piano . I loved the way this pianist rendered one of the most beautiful concerts of this times . Pity it is not given the honor of a Grieg or a Rachmaninoff . Bravo !!
I bet you were amazing at playing this!
Don't be modest! You're probably hotter than you think Conchitina!
Would love to see you play this 😌
I agree with your points.
We all LOVE this song, and good piano playing, don’t we? ❤
a truly breathtaking Performance Chris --- with the Sinfonia ---it made me Cry...........
One of my favourite pieces of music... It inspires me every day..
I have no words to comment this beauty
I absolutely love this piece. My 13-year-old son just finished learning it on the piano, and I made him promise he will not forget how to play it.
Truly wonderful. This masterpiece never fails to send a shiver down my spine everytime i hear it. 👌
In 1960 my father bought a LP collection from Readers Digest, Popular Music Festival. Since then the Warsaw Concerto was one of the best inspirations I've had. Soon we had a piano, I took a music course and learned to play. Thank you, Addinsell.
Truly am blown away by this. It touches my very soul.
Thank you for playing my favorite piece of music. I heard this when I was ten, it touched my soul and love to hear this piece always. I'm now old and just can't understand why I still love to hear this piece when it makes me cry.
Very beautiful! Reminds me of my favorite composer Rachmaninoff. Played it at the end of one of my piano classes today. A 15 year old said it made her cry,
Yes I actually believed it was composed by Rachmaninov but the chord change aren't really quite his style @6.12
it is the masterpiece admireded by many who still like good music and the skill required to play.
I love watching the film The GlassMountain with this gorgeous concerto as the central theme.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Each and every time I listen to the Warsaw Concerto; I remember the movie Dangerous Moonlight!
i love this piece of music... russ conway used to play it to me, now it makes me cry and remember a better time in life.....
This has been "the song" that makes my heart rejoice for years. The Technology we have now is so wonderful, I can just pick this up and play it a thousand times if I want to.
Faultless performance of a incredible composition it never fails to move you i have listened to this concerto since i was a lad ,am now 78 and it still have to hold back my tears ,so moving is it .
Cris, I love this piece of music ... congratulations for posting... from Brazil! Sorry my bad english
Great piece of work gives me goose bumps just listening to this wonderful music
3:22 blows me away.
That was just awesome.
Chris Hill was on fire.
i agree but had some very negative comments to me.......NOT my CONCERN...i like what I LIKE....period.....MY CHOICE
This is an engaging rendition of the Warsaw Concerto, the most significant instrumental work written in England during the war, still conjuring up a time and place better than any other piece. Simultaneously magical, inspirational and heart-wrenching … Chopin would dearly have loved to have written this one … all of his works were written from a strong, unwavering sense of patriotism, and a longing to return.
I think you mean ..Rachmaninov .
Ah! This brings back so many fond memories. It is sad that this fine concerto has fallen into disuse. It deserves far better. This is a fine start but probably too late. To all those of my generation: Enjoy!
charles Mccaghy ede
Sure. An extraordinary Concert. Of course the performance of the soloist Chris Hill makes this concert BEST!.
we are doing this piece tomorrow night, 6-22-17
Do know know what movie this was played in? I saw it as a child and this piece stayed with me forever.
I just found it. It was Dangerous Moonlight.
Ce concerto, qu'est que j'ai pu l'entendre quand j'étais jeune. C'était le préféré de ma maman.
I think it's wonderful. And played so well. It has depth of feeling and brings to life another time. Music today cannot speak like this.
What!!!! 77 thumbs down???? On this fantabulous piece of heavenly melody???? What are this mindless people thinking 🤔..
I love ❤️ it. 😍😍😍😍😍
I read the thumbs down are not real,but computer generated..
Possibly influenced by Spike Milligan's description of it as "the Bloody Awful Warsaw Concerto". This description probably coloured by constant requests for it, as well as repetitions on radio, in 1941. Overexposure will generate antipathy. And of course, some people just don't like classical music.
Fred Cairns yes, I hated that he did that.
@@SkugSkellumI’ve always wondered why Spike Milligan was so derogatory about this music?
@@johnlunnun9769 As well as the overexposure, I think he was disgusted at the blatant propaganda of it. It was "commercial" classical music, in that sense. It was composed to conjure an emotion and evoke a popular response.
Very impressed with your playing. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to play the piano keys with such speed and dexterity. OMG, your playing took my breath away. More success to you!
Dear Chris, If you are an angel, where are your wings? 🌻🌼🌷🌹♥
My childhood Saturday mornings. ❤
I cannot play this piece enough. It captures the heartbreak of war and is exquisite. Warsaw was truly desecrated yet there was always hope. Richard Adinsell is brilliant in conveying the tragedy yet the hope and will of the people. It was written during the ear ad part of an effort to keep the faith. I may be all wrong.
In terms of meaningful emotive music fitting the times (WW11) this is the most memorable for me since my then childhood.
I lived then surrounded by central european music scores, plus a RAF father (bomber command) so the first piece of classical (style) music stayed with me ever since.
This music reminds me of my father. I remember when I was 8 in the 60's he had an LP with this concerto on and it used to get played on a Sunday afternoon, it used to make me feel sad 😢! I remember once I was running a high fever and this tune just went round and round in my head.
Interesting you should say that it made you sad. I also felt sad and the beauty and power of the song made me cry. Listened to it on my mother's album so many times as a young child. Interesting how people share some of the same experiences and emotions while listening to such beautiful and complex music. ❤
@@kimmygirl4544 Maybe we were feeling sad together
I learned this work when I was 12, 1 piano version. My classical trained teacher told me it was based on Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto & having played that at 16, I can hear the similarity. Never mind that, I still love it as a great movie theme.
Used to listen to this with my mum who died last year many memories
A delight to hear and even more to see. I've often played it, it's rendering beautiful. I'm going to pick it up again. It's greatly performed........bravo, bravo......
Very moving...great job. I listen to this over and over while I paint. It is a very challenging piece and quite inspirational.
Fantastic job!! Playing this tomorrow on the cello with piano soloist. Practicing along with your recording is helping tremendously.....👏👏👏😊
I cannot stop crying
Glorilla feat. Duke Deuce - Just Say That (sent me here) 🔥
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKK!
This is the first classical music i ve ever listened when i was 17 yrs...and since I fall in love with this music...it 45 years ago..
Desde hace varios años la escucho frecuentemente y nunca dejo de maravillarme de lo hermosa que es y de lo magistralmente interpretada por Addinsell
Listening to classical music gives you a heavenly feeling and peace . It is magical and resonates to all your body system.
I definitely agree with your comment,it's helped to be save my
Life,. Music is is a great healer...
Deeply evocative and moving. Makes me glad to be alive. Thank you.
❤
Superb performance by the pianist and the Philharmonic Orchestra.. heavenly.... divine.... uplifting.... captivating....❤️❤️🎹🎹🌹🌹🎻🎻💋🎵🎵💝💝🎺🎺
This Concerto grabbed my heart the very first time I heard it, in an old movie!'
CREO, que era muy pequeño...y..al escuchar esta melodia, al piano, SUPE LO QUE SIĢNIFICABA..EL AMOR..,y...cuando conociera el verdadero AMOR, trataria de acompañarme con esta melodia....😢😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
We went to a classical music night at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Theatre, back in the late 70's. Among the mind boggling presentations, was a guy who came running on stage in a tux.
He apologized, explaining he was having a cigarette, as it wasn't his turn yet...but the next act balked at playing...nice laugh from the crowd, which turned serious when he then told us his mother was in the audience, and that this would be the last time she would be able to watch him play the piano, as she was dying.
He said he was going to play his heart out. There wasn't a dry eye in the place, as he attacked the difficult chords of "Warsaw Concerto."
I think I'd have had tears streaming down my cheeks, even WITHOUT the thought of his mother sitting up front, writhing her little hands.
I don't know if this is a true story.If it is, that pianist was a real #@&^%$%^#$^!!!
When somebody claims no classical music comes from movie soundtracks, this here is proof they are wrong.
this was written for a british movie about the polish struggle with the invastion of the nazis- the movie was Dangerous Moonlight 1941
Dana William Two ideologies of hate; first the Nazis, then the USSR.
@Dana William BERLIN ?
Brilliant muriel
Who knows the truth about it.
What a performance!!!!!
You are a great pianist
Thank you Chris.
Addinsel was definitely paying homage to Rachmaninoff with this beautiful piece. Rachmaninoff was offered the job (and refused) to score for the 1941 movie "Dangerous Moonlight." Addensell was brought in and told to score this film in a Rachmaninoff style. Addinsell complied and thus we have the very Rachmaninoff lush and beautiful themes running throughout this composition.
Un cadeau du Ciel ♥
@@tinantmyriam1936 Oui! Je suis d'accord!!
There was a 45minute radio program called "candlelight and silver that included this music;!!
Exquisite, magical, pure beauty.
Full of passion excitement and energy superb sit back shut your eyes and just let the music take hold of you ❤
Tal cual. Es sobrecigedora 🎼🎹🥀
Mi abuela tocaba este sublime tema. Imposible escuchar otro tipo de música 🎼🎹.
You àre wonderful Richard. My first time of hearing this but I hope not my last
So outstanding in this performance!
A very beautiful piece of music, and a very skilled pianist. I do envy these very talented people. Thankyou. Andrew Wyeth.
Qué paz me da...... Mi pieza clásica favorita... Ojalá hubiese tenido el privilegio de haber tocado el piano... Y concretamente esta maravillosa música
Beautiful music, beautifully played. A wonderful concerto in the style of Rach. Chris Hill did a great job.
Yes. Fabulous piece. Addisell was British, but his concerto is very “Hollywoodesque,” in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was born near Novgorod, Russia. Two years after the movie “Dangerous Moonlight” was released, Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills CA, right next to Hollywood, where I was born and raised. So many memories.
Musica sublime!!! Interpretazione da oscar!!!!!!!!!!!!==
Suona a memoria.......per interpretare cosi' lo spartito e' dentro nel cuore!!!
My life expressed in this beautiful piece of music. I have loved it since I first heard it over 40 years ago. (when I was young :) )
+Juanita Walters mee too...first saw it on tv in 1971.
+vet68 I bought the lp in the late 1960s due to the label on the lp cover.
Awesome. Small world.
Juanita= ame with me
Esta melodia le encantaba a mi padre, recuerdo de cuando era pequeña después de la cena nos llevaba a escucharla, aún cuando me parecía un poco triste me gustó. Ya pasó muchol tiempo y se quedó en mi memoria y cada vez que puedo la escucho y me deleito con esta joya musical.
This piece is absolute epic greatness. If only rachmaninoff had composed it. It is almost as if rachmaninoff stepped into the mind of Addinsell....
Also a shout out to the pianist Chris Hill...great performance!!!
addinsell channeled rach. for sure---
Excellent technique! Beautiful execution as well; it's rather sad, though, that this concerto is a rarity and hardly ever performed anymore.
Mostly because it isn't a full concerto. Its only 10 minutes long. Addinsall only wrote 1 movement for the film and recorded various versions for different parts of the film. So you never really realize that in the film its not complete. I think people who don't like it feel that way because in effect it is a Rachmaninoff parody.. Sounds like something LIberace would have played..
Please Jon rosen which is the best powerful version, I want to know, thanks.
I found out of this song because I played the record and I ended up loving it!
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@@jonrosen7980 LIBERACE did. Often. He has an album of greatest hits and this is one of them. LIBERACE. did not use sheets this needed no page turner. He used his memory. ;-D
British movies of the period often used fine classical composers to provide wonderful “background” music-Vaughn Williams, Walton, Bliss, as well as Addinsel. They added fabulous tone and emotional depth to the films.
Wow Chris! Even 10 years later this amazing performance is truly unforgettable! :)
i love it....thank you....i come here OFTEN to re-listen and post it to twitter
I studied this concerto 45 years ago! I just took out the sheet music last week to play it. It is truly a difficult piece to play but this was a joy to listen to. I never had the chance to perform with an orchestra but would have loved to been a true concert pianist. I was told I had the talent but not the funds to go to Julliard. Still, I never gave up and love playing the piano. This is one of my favorite pieces to play. He did an amazing job, as did the orchestra. Performing live is not the easiest thing to do but I loved it when I got the chance to play for the public.
45 years ago I was just eight and at junior school back then (between the ages of seven and eleven, for your information). I had only started learning the violin a year before. Now aged 53, I have been playing in an amateur orchestra for years (both violin and then viola!)
In my Teens,I was a figure skater(rollar,believe it or not!) This piece was my choice for my routine..(Edited for 3 minutes)1960..hearing it again brings me to tears!!
Beautiful piece of classical music.
One of my favorite compositions! I discovered Addinsell composed the original music for “Scrooge”, the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol, starring Alistair Simm as Scrooge (which happens to be my favorite movie version of the story).
Beautiful composition, excellent performance. More please. This is a significant 20th Century piece.
My parents played their 78 all those years ago... all those goosebumps.
This pianist and orchestra knocks other versions of this powerful piece into a cocked hat, it is brilliant in its tidal wave of beauty and magic !!!