If this pianist is actually using just his left, I'd love to see it because those (4:56 is just one example) were just too quick to be done with one. I could very well be wrong I admit, but it seems too clean and too quick. If someone has a video I'm curious.
@@thenameisgsarci Right, the individual who played It in the linked video did those grace notes as I would have expected them to be: almost as an 8th note leading into beat 1.
I just tried it and it's not that hard, I imagine for someone practising this piece on a concert pianist level that it's not a problem at all. I can't imagine why anyone would choose to play it with both hands anyway.
Beautiful orchestration with majestic and virtuosic piano part! Very "romantically" harmonized! It's hard to believe that only one hand is playing the solo piano with such rich harmonies!
Confining such a sensational piece of music to obscurity is indeed a shame. The world should hear the piano concerto no.2, a masterpiece of the rarest kind! Intensely musical & romantic. It speaks a fresh & sublimely beautiful language! Thank you you tube! You've done stellar service to music by unearthing this composer & composition! Jamshed Delvadavala from Mumbai.
easily one of the best piano concertos ever, let alone for the left hand. on par with moszkowski. unbelievable. i've spent hours listening and crying to this recording
C'est vraiment le meilleur concerto que j'ai pu écouter jusqu'à présent, c'est tellement triste que ce compositeur ne soit pas + connu, je le trouve vraiment incroyable ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The part at 20:48 is so damn beautiful, the preceding part introduces this motif, the way the piano talks with the orchestra is so perfect. Another gem of bortkiewicz I find.
19:40 I love this part so much. It feels me like I lost my lover... So disperatic melodies. Also, the later melodies are so lovely. I think Bortkiewicz is a magical composer. His music never disappoints me. Why he isn't so popular?
He has to compete with the "Rachmaninov style". And this Concerto is really difficult. But it is true that the lack of popularity of this composer is a crime.....he has many wonderful pieces 😀
Grande concerto pra orquestra e piano! Grande compositor! Não entendo como um compositor desse nível não é tão difundido como os outros mais tradicionais!
3:09 - OK, I think I just saw Rachmaninov's soul in this part... 3:44 - Hmmm, for some reason... 3:49 - I can imagine this part playing in a James Bond film. 3:54 - "The name's Bortkiewicz. Sergei Bortkiewicz' 3:59 - Well, that would be VERY interesting. XD 6:07 - I'll bet I've heard that 8-note melody before... 6:35 - A cliffhanger, really, Mr. Sergei? *laughs... in dissapointment* (by the way, it's spelt "disappointment") 6:39 - Hmph, fine... >:/ 7:23 - Awww, god, yes, that climax... Thank you very much. I forgive you now. XD 7:28 - Oh, wow, I remember, it's the melody from his own Etude Op. 29 No. 6... 7:35 - I know how you play your cards now... mwahahahahhh... Sorry. Did I miss anything?
I think your comments are great! We almost never get the chance to experience music, live with a friend -- it's always hushed during the performance or talked about in general terms afterwards. I learned about your interpretation and about some references I missed! For those who are too stuck-up to enjoy it, they don't deserve to take advantage of your work putting the video together for free. Keep doing your thing!
This exact piano concerto obsessed me for the past few days and now you bring my favourite interpretation with sheet music, what a coincidence. I am soo grateful to you good sir. Btw I didn't recognize right away the Le Heros etude omg xD you are a genius
Amo esta pieza, reminiscencia de otras obras y compositores. Cada vez que la escucho encuentro un nuevo detalle que hace que me guste todavía más. Gracias por compartirla!!.
I hate he lost his arm, but grateful for these amazing commissions. Pretty amazing a billionaire's son was in combat and ended up in a POW camp. Can't imagine that happening today.
Сергій Борткевич - видатний український композитор польського походження, піаніст і педагог. Борткевич побудував свій музичний стиль на звуці Шопена та Ліста із безумовним впливом Чайковського, Рахманінова, раннього Скрябіна та Блуменфельда. В радянський час творчість Сергія Борткевича була майже невідомою на Батьківщині. Однак, починаючи з 2000 року, завдяки дириґентові та фанату Борткевича Миколі Сукачу і створеному ним симфонічному оркестрові «Філармонія» його ім'я стає знаним.
@@scio_me_nescireeDude, he was born in Kharkov which was in the russian empire, he studied in St-Petersburg, all his teachers and friends were russians and russian was his mother tongue. 😂😅
Now I have lost track of where I am in life, and have blurriness instead of straight thoughts about my future actions... That painful feeling of nostalgia, causing chest to burn and heart to ache, without any possibility to access so many things, no possibility to experience so much, loosing so many opportunities and being late to nice things, and all those feelings seem to stem from greed for more good moments, for checking everything, reading everything, experiencing all and crossing most possible things off the list.
Everyone here saying they hear Rachmaninoff, and I do too, but I also get lots of Wagner and lots of Puccini too. Like some of those chromatic passages that are so lyrical feels so Puccini. Anyway yes, a lovely and wonderful work. 🌷
It does resemble a bit of Chopinistic features, like 15:10. But in the first bit, with the heavy chords in both the solo piano and orchestra, Russian style is definitely presented as well!
Notice the big section in F sharp major, a tritone away from the home key of c minor! He ends the concerto in E flat major instead of the expected tonic C major, perhaps following the example of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony!
I'd told you I was working on this :( I guess on the Bright side I'd only got through cleaning up the score and halfway through setting up all the different frames though. Good video anyway, guess you saved me the work! :D Though I think you should check some of the frames midway through. They're not matching up with the music! D:
1) I should've actually advised you NOT to give out your plans away. Treat it like a trade secret. 2) For some reason, my equipment suffered a glitch. Either that, or I've gone video-blind. XD
Actually the piano favors the left hand more than the right the reason being that it's easier to travel up and down the piano with your left verse your right and the left hand is able to get full resonance from the piano because the left hand is able to reach the base notes and a Melody at the same time. This was discovered by godowsky
I've heard people criticize this piece for sounding too Rachmaninoff, but I think we have to put things into context here. I've read somewhere this concerto was composed for a pianist (I think for his friend can't remember) who got his right hand amputated during war, and has no chance of playing any of Rachmaninoff concertos. There's little material about this concerto's history so correct me if I'm wrong.
C'est quand même curieux que l'on connaisse si mal ce compositeur... Ce concerto devrait,au moins, être connu ! Messieurs les pianistes : qu'attendez-vous pour l'inscrire au programme ?
![Bortkiewicz - Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 16 (Shadrina, Sukach) [Christmas Special No. 4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sbBrKano384/mqdefault.jpg)
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If this pianist is actually using just his left, I'd love to see it because those (4:56 is just one example) were just too quick to be done with one. I could very well be wrong I admit, but it seems too clean and too quick. If someone has a video I'm curious.
Hmmm, maybe this might help you compare, this is by a different performer: ua-cam.com/video/IfgQhoMDdYY/v-deo.html
@@thenameisgsarci Right, the individual who played It in the linked video did those grace notes as I would have expected them to be: almost as an 8th note leading into beat 1.
I just tried it and it's not that hard, I imagine for someone practising this piece on a concert pianist level that it's not a problem at all. I can't imagine why anyone would choose to play it with both hands anyway.
@@onlinetheory5115 Yeah some of those grace notes seems to be played almost instantaneous with the melody. 5:07 and 5:17 got me really confused
Wondering what his right hand is doing all this time?
I think this composer deserves more popularity.
I'm thinking what you're thinking as well. :)
This reminds me of Rachmaninoff but with better orchestration.
Peter Edwards significantly worse orchestration imo. I think that’s what held back Bortkiewicz’ popularity
@@jackcurley1591 With better orchestration*
Agreed! The best "Bad Rachmaninoff" I've ever heard! Actually, Rachmaninoff would've been impressed...
Wow, that first movement and other parts in this concerto scream Rachmaninoff to me. Another gem of a concerto that should get played more often.
Beautiful orchestration with majestic and virtuosic piano part! Very "romantically" harmonized! It's hard to believe that only one hand is playing the solo piano with such rich harmonies!
Confining such a sensational piece of music to obscurity is indeed a shame. The world should hear the piano concerto no.2, a masterpiece of the rarest kind!
Intensely musical & romantic. It speaks a fresh & sublimely beautiful language!
Thank you you tube! You've done stellar service to music by unearthing this composer & composition!
Jamshed Delvadavala from Mumbai.
easily one of the best piano concertos ever, let alone for the left hand. on par with moszkowski. unbelievable. i've spent hours listening and crying to this recording
Part I (Allegro dramatico) 0:19 // Part II (Andante) 9:04 // Recapitulation 18:21 // Finale 22:32
If someone did not understand, then 7:23 is a direct fragment from his etude op. 29 no. 6 called "Le Heros"
C'est vraiment le meilleur concerto que j'ai pu écouter jusqu'à présent, c'est tellement triste que ce compositeur ne soit pas + connu, je le trouve vraiment incroyable ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The part at 20:48 is so damn beautiful, the preceding part introduces this motif, the way the piano talks with the orchestra is so perfect. Another gem of bortkiewicz I find.
19:40 I love this part so much. It feels me like I lost my lover... So disperatic melodies. Also, the later melodies are so lovely. I think Bortkiewicz is a magical composer. His music never disappoints me. Why he isn't so popular?
He has to compete with the "Rachmaninov style". And this Concerto is really difficult. But it is true that the lack of popularity of this composer is a crime.....he has many wonderful pieces 😀
@@kaleidoscopio5 I agreee
@@presto4076 I have a list of pieces of Bortkiewicz to study and try to play in public. So much beauty, so great, so personal music. Love him 😁
@@kaleidoscopio5 Oh, have a good luck to try them!!
@@presto4076 It will take a lot of time and effort but I hope I can play them with the dignity those pieces desearve 🤔
I really love this piano concerto . Excellent orchestration, wonderful piano score and full of passion. I wish it could be performed more often .
Stunning writing of the left hand !!
Great influences from Rachmaninov and Chopin !!
Прекрасная музыка! Чувствуется вдияние Оахманиновской этетики и пианизма! Хамечательный композитор! Благодарю аатора канала!
for one hand solo, this is transcendental; just wow!
Why I don't know this today... This is so amazing
Now you know... :)
This work holds a candle to Ravel's Concerto for the left-hand. Hands (both of them) down, this is a masterpiece of eloquent piano playing.
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I love this concerto but Ravel's is incomparably superior.
Grande concerto pra orquestra e piano! Grande compositor! Não entendo como um compositor desse nível não é tão difundido como os outros mais tradicionais!
3:09 - OK, I think I just saw Rachmaninov's soul in this part...
3:44 - Hmmm, for some reason...
3:49 - I can imagine this part playing in a James Bond film.
3:54 - "The name's Bortkiewicz. Sergei Bortkiewicz'
3:59 - Well, that would be VERY interesting. XD
6:07 - I'll bet I've heard that 8-note melody before...
6:35 - A cliffhanger, really, Mr. Sergei? *laughs... in dissapointment* (by the way, it's spelt "disappointment")
6:39 - Hmph, fine... >:/
7:23 - Awww, god, yes, that climax... Thank you very much. I forgive you now. XD
7:28 - Oh, wow, I remember, it's the melody from his own Etude Op. 29 No. 6...
7:35 - I know how you play your cards now... mwahahahahhh...
Sorry. Did I miss anything?
Yes, you did. XD
There's one near the start
I think your comments are great! We almost never get the chance to experience music, live with a friend -- it's always hushed during the performance or talked about in general terms afterwards. I learned about your interpretation and about some references I missed! For those who are too stuck-up to enjoy it, they don't deserve to take advantage of your work putting the video together for free. Keep doing your thing!
One handed or two - this is one of the most beautiful piano pieces I've heard in a long time. David Porcelijn is remarkable. Thank you for posting.
This exact piano concerto obsessed me for the past few days and now you bring my favourite interpretation with sheet music, what a coincidence. I am soo grateful to you good sir. Btw I didn't recognize right away the Le Heros etude omg xD you are a genius
Let's get obsessed together, my friend. >_
This is an extraordinary piano concerto! Enjoyable from end to end and very well performed.
A spectacular and moving musical event.
Amo esta pieza, reminiscencia de otras obras y compositores. Cada vez que la escucho encuentro un nuevo detalle que hace que me guste todavía más. Gracias por compartirla!!.
I hate he lost his arm, but grateful for these amazing commissions. Pretty amazing a billionaire's son was in combat and ended up in a POW camp. Can't imagine that happening today.
Apparently Mr. Bortkiewicz couldn't choose between Chopin's revolutionary and Saint Saëns's Agnus dei at 19:43 and so he went for both :)
Incredible! I keep coming back to listen.
Es perfecto!! Increible el piano y la orquesta!! ❤
Сергій Борткевич - видатний український композитор польського походження, піаніст і педагог. Борткевич побудував свій музичний стиль на звуці Шопена та Ліста із безумовним впливом Чайковського, Рахманінова, раннього Скрябіна та Блуменфельда. В радянський час творчість Сергія Борткевича була майже невідомою на Батьківщині. Однак, починаючи з 2000 року, завдяки дириґентові та фанату Борткевича Миколі Сукачу і створеному ним симфонічному оркестрові «Філармонія» його ім'я стає знаним.
This Piano Concerto desearves a place in standard repertoire. It has no envy with Chopin or Liszt music...
@God justify yourself 🤨
My left hand hurts insanely just from watching this. Thanks very much :D
Anytime! Would you like something to make your right hand hurt also?
Are you implying something else here? 😁😉
rachmaninoff concerto 3 he means. both leftand right hands hurts.........
I've never heard of a Bortkiewicz's concerto before, and it's so nice!
It feels like Russia+Rachmaninov.
Thank you for the good music.🤗👍
ok but rach is Russian already lol
I fiel the same
Rachmaninov is russian composer.
Bortkiewicz has nothing in common with russia itself
@@scio_me_nescireeDude, he was born in Kharkov which was in the russian empire, he studied in St-Petersburg, all his teachers and friends were russians and russian was his mother tongue. 😂😅
Its good to have you back, old friend!...
^_^
Remarkably charming work rendered beautifully. ❤️
such a delight to listen to and watch! thank you :)
You're welcome. ^_^
Magnifique !
Et bravo au pianiste et à l’orchestre 👏👏
Thank you for the detailed description. Very interesting to read while listening.
I like the comments at the bottom of the score, It's fun to see your perspective of the piece.
my perspective is full of jokes, if anything. XD
Gorgeous music!
Wittgenstein also commissioned Prok 4 but never played it!
An amazing piece. Amazing.
Now I have lost track of where I am in life, and have blurriness instead of straight thoughts about my future actions... That painful feeling of nostalgia, causing chest to burn and heart to ache, without any possibility to access so many things, no possibility to experience so much, loosing so many opportunities and being late to nice things, and all those feelings seem to stem from greed for more good moments, for checking everything, reading everything, experiencing all and crossing most possible things off the list.
Exactly me right now...
A masterpiece! Thanks so much for posting.
Eu amo este concerto!
A pleasant style for the afternoon
This is stunning music!
What a masterpiece!!
The opening is tragic, instantly got my attention
Everyone here saying they hear Rachmaninoff, and I do too, but I also get lots of Wagner and lots of Puccini too. Like some of those chromatic passages that are so lyrical feels so Puccini. Anyway yes, a lovely and wonderful work. 🌷
5:51 Motif from Bortkiewicz's Etude "Le Heros"
5:41 Same motif but modified to resolve in the same key
It does resemble a bit of Chopinistic features, like 15:10. But in the first bit, with the heavy chords in both the solo piano and orchestra, Russian style is definitely presented as well!
Sounds like Liszt Funérailles to me
Ok this is number one on my list of music that makes pooping epic.
The opening reminds me of both Medtner 1 and Atterberg, who's piano concertos precede and follow this one respectively.
The slow movement of this concerto reminds me a lot of glasounovs piano sonata 1 Mvt 2
This is so amazing
Magnificent!
Your "color commentary" is fun! Thanks!
Wonderful melodies
Una belleza!
Omg this is so beautiful!!!
I was looking for this sheet music so badly
Notice the big section in F sharp major, a tritone away from the home key of c minor! He ends the concerto in E flat major instead of the expected tonic C major, perhaps following the example of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony!
I cracked up at your Darth Vader comment around 0:52!
28:20 : this very small phrase is so Borodine/Balakirev/Rimsky-Korsakov/Glazunov like !
Hi can you contact me pls!
Bortkiewicz is like Rachmaninoff dlc in terms of beautiful melodies and haunting romantic harmonies
19:43 Where the fun begins. Or maybe that itself is just 0:00?
Heh C minor I knew there was a reason it sounded so good.
Mahler + Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto = Bortkiewicz's Second Piano Concerto
Fantastic!!!
19:41
I love the remarks in the bottom 😂😂
thanks so much for sharing this! hope you'll upload his others piano concertos ASAP. thanks deeply.
Well, someone has already uploaded No. 3 (ua-cam.com/video/S845YzYmvjk/v-deo.html). So you want me to do No. 1?
Yes or no?
yes!! number 1.
Alright then so you wait. :)
The video you took the audio from is deleted.
OK, fixed it. Apparently, the URL is incomplete. :P
I'd told you I was working on this :(
I guess on the Bright side I'd only got through cleaning up the score and halfway through setting up all the different frames though.
Good video anyway, guess you saved me the work! :D
Though I think you should check some of the frames midway through. They're not matching up with the music! D:
1) I should've actually advised you NOT to give out your plans away. Treat it like a trade secret.
2) For some reason, my equipment suffered a glitch. Either that, or I've gone video-blind. XD
+thenameisgsarci Good choice in pieces anyways! Love it!
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@@Xanadu2025 yes
Beautiful👍🎶
Piano entrance at 1:34 reminded me Chopin's Etude Op. 25 no. 12
3:27 damn!
Vers la 7ème minute, fragment du thème de la censure dans "Liebesverbot" de Wagner!
2:28
13:56
21:31
19:40
20:06
Nice to hear such full blown romanticism!
0:51 exactly my thought :D
The beggining feels very similar the the Medtner 1st piano concerto
+ thenameisgsarci Thank you for posting such amazing composition!
Actually the piano favors the left hand more than the right the reason being that it's easier to travel up and down the piano with your left verse your right and the left hand is able to get full resonance from the piano because the left hand is able to reach the base notes and a Melody at the same time. This was discovered by godowsky
0:21 Tristan chord!😊🥰
I've heard people criticize this piece for sounding too Rachmaninoff, but I think we have to put things into context here. I've read somewhere this concerto was composed for a pianist (I think for his friend can't remember) who got his right hand amputated during war, and has no chance of playing any of Rachmaninoff concertos. There's little material about this concerto's history so correct me if I'm wrong.
The description box should give you the answer. :)
Sounding like Rachmaninoff is not criticism, it's the highest praise you can give to a piano concerto.
@@SpaghettiToaster moszkowski? Maybe. I might also be obsessed tbh but give it a listen. (no.2 specifically)
one big cliff hanger for me, so misterious
What do you think Gsarci, who is the violinist playing from 15:17 onwards? I am desperate to know xD
I'm gonna look like a stalker, so, no. Sorry. :/
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Nada es puro y perfecto
Este Concierto se acerca
Cuanto?
Solo Dios sabe
Pero
Favor sin mezquindad
Great.
C'est quand même curieux que l'on connaisse si mal ce compositeur...
Ce concerto devrait,au moins, être connu ! Messieurs les pianistes : qu'attendez-vous pour l'inscrire au programme ?
Oui! Tout comme Atterberg, Medtner et bien d'autres...
Rien ne m'énerve plus que les commentaires qui comparent ces compositeurs méconnus avec les "grands" autres compositeurs "connus"!
@@catherineanstett126 apparemment ils sont grands connaisseurs... Oups
1:33
19:43
19:40 Chopin Revolution Etude
Une seule main donne par ailleurs plus de clarté à la partition, belle prestation.
Huh, I didn't know our left hands could do that... 😂
The very beginning sounds a lot like the 1st movement of Mahler's 6th symphony
Only the left? What's the big idea anyway?