I learned of this music through my Mother and Father. It made indelible impression on me then, and it still does. The sorrow and pathos associated with the bombing and utter destruction of the city of Warsaw.
I love the Polish People, they have suffered so long. Thank God they are free, God alone knows how they have suffered simply because of the location of their beautiful country.
This has been a favorite since the 50s when my mom gave me a 78 with it. I think it meant a lot to her since she lived in England and during the war was engaged to a Polish pilot that was lost in combat. Kinda glad she found my dad!! Thanks for posting. Andy K.
Beautiful piece of music,juxtaposed with such stark images of the city of Warsaw. Remember the countless innocents. Moving,a masterpiece of the photographers art.
Stunning performance of an old neglected favorite. Patrik Jablonski runs a close second to Louis Kentner who recorded the work on its first outing on an old Columbia 78. An all involving work where you need to be well ''all involved' which clearly this young man is.
ABSOLUTELY 'FLAWLESS'!...THE BEST I'VE EVER HEARD THIS PIECE PLAYED...THE DRAMA, THE DEPTH, THE TENDERNESS & THE SORROW OF THE 1940S WARTIME PERIOD...CONGRATULATIONS, YOU NAILED IT, PATRIK!...;)
The Light and the Dark......Addinsel perhaps was inspired - paradoxically - by tragedy, to generate one of the most beautiful masterpieces of modern times.
I've always loved this. Regarding the reference to Rachmaninoff, he was asked to compose some music for a film but refused as he considered it rather beneath him. (hah!) So, Richard Addinsell did the job and what a job! It's wonderful. Maybe the real die hard classicists among us would criticise it for all kinds of reasons but it is iconic in summing up that particular time in WW2, the overcoming of adversity by truly admirable people.
PEOPLE SAY RACHMANINOFF INFLUENCED, THATS BECAUSE IT IS, THE FILM COMPANY WANTED RACHMININOFF WHO LIVED IN AMERICA, BUT COULDN'T AFFORD HIS FEE AND EXPENCES. RICHARD ADDINSELL WAS ASKED TO WRITE THE THEME IN A RACHMANINOFF STYLE, WHICH HE BRILLIANTLY DID. IT SOLD A MILLION COPIES, A DURING A WORLD WAR.
I understand that the composer served his country as a Bomber Command havigator operating in 619 squadron early 1944 when losses were very high. He had already composed this impressive wartime theme and fortunately survived. Reference Nuremburg Raids; author Martin Middlebrook.
You are so right. The story of Poland is one of the darkest and tragic in the whole history of WW2 and a stain on the western allies reputation. US General Patton, I believe, wanted to invade all of Germany and Poland to ensure their independence from Soviet Russia but was prevented from doing so by superior officials.
An important Polish freedom fighter, Witold Pilecki, the only known volunteer to take up a mission to infiltrate Auschwitz thus experienced nazi captivity, told his wife during stalinist captivity(post 1945), "compared to the stalinists, nazi captivity was "easy"; he was executed in 1948 as "an enemy of the people". For compelling reading: "Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947" by Marek Chodakiewicz
Partly true about Roy Douglas. He adapted Addinsells Warsaw Concerto to the film Dangerous Moonlight. But credit for giving it the Rachmaninov style belong to Addinsell only.
Thank you for your words. The Poles' problems did not end with the elimination of the nazis. The stalinists simply resumed their occupation of Poland before the nazis invaded them(USSR1941). As a matter of course, the repressive NKVD trained/installed security apparatus in Poland picked up it's work of executions/torture, expropriations, deportations to desolate "gulags"post 1945. After the contribution of Poland to the final victory over nazism, the Poles were betrayed by the "west".....
Most of the destruction of Warsaw was done by Hitlers bomb squad who detonated explosives under 75% of the city's major buildings in reprisal for the Warsaw uprising.
God Bless the brave Jews of Warsaw who rose up against the Nazis!! I can't even imagine such bravery! And Goddamn the Russians who could've helped and did nothing!!
lets face it...ROOSEVELT was mesmerized by Stalin and in Yalta -- against Churchill's advice -- sold out Eastern Europe to the Soviets. The brave Polish people first got the onslaught of the Nazi hordes, then the Soviet ones.. They were caught in middle and they resisted bravely. I respect them a great deal. This beautiful sem-classic concerto is an Homage due to them.
Great music for a great people ,we sold down the river ! You would'nt like to come over again and save us from another fine mess we've got ourselves into would you? No. Can't say I blame you.
A moving blend of music and video. The tragic fate of Warsaw at the hands of the Nazis is captured in this emotional collection of photographs. I salute those heroic Poles who stood up to the Nazis in 1943 and 1944. Their bravery is beyond belief.
Not nazis! They were Germans. In 1939 Poland was attacked by the German stare. The Germany were called then the Reich. It was Germany WHO starter the WW2.
Il Concerto di Varsavia non è una musica romantica. Anzi, sta a un milione di chilometri da ogni romanticismo. Lo sembra soltanto. È musica di guerra. È la guerra vista da lontano, la guerra "che non si sa come finirà", la guerra "che fa abbassare la testa", ma guerra. Solo guerra. Anche nelle foto di questo filmato la guerra è lontana, è passata, è andata via, fa abbassare la testa, non si sa come finirà o non si sa "a cosa porterà", e le foto, guarda caso, risultano perfette. Questa musica è l'unico concerto per piano e orchestra dove le donne - sempre splendenti, sempre irraggiungibili e sempre ineguagliabili nell'interpretazione - non riescono mai a suonare in modi davvero credibili. Forse perché non c'è niente sui cui splendere e brillare. Forse perché la soluzione non dipende da un'anima o due, ma dalla massa, dalla forza d'urto, dal peso che i maschi coordinati riusciranno dopo sforzi giganteschi a fornire in battaglia. L'amore delle donne è infatti infinito e guarda all'eternità, la vita guarda al sublime, cioè all'atto della nascita. Ma la guerra invece calcola. Calcola i tempi, gli uomini, i destini, i mezzi e i soldi, calcola il prima, il durante, il dopo. Ormai io non ho più dubbi: il Concerto di Varsavia è metà cuore e metà calcolo, cioè i maschi stessi.
The Poles survived an awful lot and are richer for it. Polacy przeżyli bardzo dużo i są za to bogatsze. ______________________ Please see my tribute video: Proszę zobaczyć moje tribute video: SPACER PO WARSZAWIE (THEY SURVIVED THEIR TYRANNIES!)
@Prychemnie The Poles survived an awful lot and are richer for it. Polacy przeżyli bardzo dużo i są za to bogatsze. ______________________ Please see my tribute video: Proszę zobaczyć moje tribute video: SPACER PO WARSZAWIE (THEY SURVIVED THEIR TYRANNIES!)
Dla mnie Polaka z Warszawy to jednen z najpiękniejszych utworów, oddający nasz charakter i duszę. Polacy to wspaniały i wolny naród!
Goosebumps, tragedy, beautiful piece of music. Thanks
I learned of this music through my Mother and Father. It made indelible impression on me then, and it still does. The sorrow and pathos associated with the bombing and utter destruction of the city of Warsaw.
One of the most moving performances of this work I have heard. Quite remarkable. Thank you.
I love the Polish People, they have suffered so long. Thank God they are free, God alone knows how they have suffered simply because of the location of their beautiful country.
Absolutely flawless performance! Thank you, Maiestro Jablonski! BRAVO!
Thank you too, Alclavi for posting this splendor! I'm grateful. ~Cate
This has been a favorite since the 50s when my mom gave me a 78 with it. I think it meant a lot to her since she lived in England and during the war was engaged to a Polish pilot that was lost in combat. Kinda glad she found my dad!! Thanks for posting. Andy K.
Beautiful piece of music,juxtaposed with such stark images of the city of Warsaw. Remember the countless innocents. Moving,a masterpiece of the photographers art.
Stunning performance of an old neglected favorite. Patrik Jablonski runs a close second to Louis Kentner who recorded the work on its first outing on an old Columbia 78. An all involving work where you need to be well ''all involved' which clearly this young man is.
ABSOLUTELY 'FLAWLESS'!...THE BEST I'VE EVER HEARD THIS PIECE PLAYED...THE DRAMA, THE DEPTH, THE TENDERNESS & THE SORROW OF THE 1940S WARTIME PERIOD...CONGRATULATIONS, YOU NAILED IT, PATRIK!...;)
The Light and the Dark......Addinsel perhaps was inspired - paradoxically - by tragedy, to generate one of the most beautiful masterpieces of modern times.
I've always loved this. Regarding the reference to Rachmaninoff, he was asked to compose some music for a film but refused as he considered it rather beneath him. (hah!) So, Richard Addinsell did the job and what a job! It's wonderful. Maybe the real die hard classicists among us would criticise it for all kinds of reasons but it is iconic in summing up that particular time in WW2, the overcoming of adversity by truly admirable people.
I'm a self confessed greasy headbanger, but even I find this music so deeply moving.
Has a Gershwin flavor in some measures. Excellent recording!
PEOPLE SAY RACHMANINOFF INFLUENCED, THATS BECAUSE IT IS, THE FILM COMPANY WANTED RACHMININOFF WHO LIVED IN AMERICA, BUT COULDN'T AFFORD HIS FEE AND EXPENCES. RICHARD ADDINSELL WAS ASKED TO WRITE THE THEME IN A RACHMANINOFF STYLE, WHICH HE BRILLIANTLY DID. IT SOLD A MILLION COPIES, A DURING A WORLD WAR.
Niech zyje Polska!
Polak to brzmi dumnie!
I understand that the composer served his country as a Bomber Command havigator operating in 619 squadron early 1944 when losses were very high. He had already composed this impressive wartime theme and fortunately survived. Reference Nuremburg Raids; author Martin Middlebrook.
I just recently discovered this beautiful music and love it
LET'S NOT FORGET...!
Lovely music!
Absolutely wonderful. Iconic. Poor Rachmaninoff missed out on this one!
You are so right. The story of Poland is one of the darkest and tragic in the whole history of WW2 and a stain on the western allies reputation. US General Patton, I believe, wanted to invade all of Germany and Poland to ensure their independence from Soviet Russia but was prevented from doing so by superior officials.
An important Polish freedom fighter, Witold Pilecki, the only known volunteer to take up a mission to infiltrate Auschwitz thus experienced nazi captivity, told his wife during stalinist captivity(post 1945), "compared to the stalinists, nazi captivity was "easy"; he was executed in 1948 as "an enemy of the people". For compelling reading: "Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947" by Marek Chodakiewicz
Dziekujemy
Es muy emocionante ,me fascina ,como usted Ramon Brull Santos ,,,,me emociona asta las lagrimas !!
Pina stracquadaini Hace ensoñar, a lo Walter Mitty, instalada en aquella época y teniendo aventuricas. Una pocholada de composición.
Partly true about Roy Douglas. He adapted Addinsells Warsaw Concerto
to the film Dangerous Moonlight.
But credit for giving it the Rachmaninov style belong to Addinsell only.
Ε Ξ Α Ι Ρ Ε Τ Ι Κ Η !! η ερμηνεία του P.Jablonski .
2:04 shell of lower half of the Prudential Building, Warsaw's first pre-war skyscraper.
Niech Zyje Polska
Thank you for your words. The Poles' problems did not end with the elimination of the nazis. The stalinists simply resumed their occupation of Poland before the nazis invaded them(USSR1941). As a matter of course, the repressive NKVD trained/installed security apparatus in Poland picked up it's work of executions/torture, expropriations, deportations to desolate "gulags"post 1945. After the contribution of Poland to the final victory over nazism, the Poles were betrayed by the "west".....
Moving The polish people are the real hero of the war
So sad to see the destruction of this beautiful city. Will the world ever learn to be at peace ?
Most of the destruction of Warsaw was done by Hitlers bomb squad who detonated explosives under 75% of the city's major buildings in reprisal for the Warsaw uprising.
This is the same footage we saw in Warsaw at the visitors' center in the 1970s.
Wonderful performance!
God Bless the brave Jews of Warsaw who rose up against the Nazis!! I can't even imagine such bravery! And Goddamn the Russians who could've helped and did nothing!!
lets face it...ROOSEVELT was mesmerized by Stalin and in Yalta -- against Churchill's advice -- sold out Eastern Europe to the Soviets.
The brave Polish people first got the onslaught of the Nazi hordes, then the Soviet ones.. They were caught in middle and they resisted bravely. I respect them a great deal. This beautiful sem-classic concerto is an Homage due to them.
@PolskieTango said by a true patriot.
Great music for a great people ,we sold down the river !
You would'nt like to come over again and save us from another fine mess we've got ourselves into would you?
No. Can't say I blame you.
This concerto makes me cry :J
Bravo!!!
ESTE TEMA ME EMOCIONA , VIVA ETERNAMENTE EN EL RECUERDO Mr. RICHARD ADDINSELL ,VIVA LA BELLA POLONIA .
A moving blend of music and video. The tragic fate of Warsaw at the hands of the Nazis is captured in this emotional collection of photographs. I salute those heroic Poles who stood up to the Nazis in 1943 and 1944. Their bravery is beyond belief.
Not nazis! They were Germans. In 1939 Poland was attacked by the German stare. The Germany were called then the Reich. It was Germany WHO starter the WW2.
Nesmírný a věčný obdiv panu Chopinovi, hluboká poklona Polákům za to, že dokázali, aby Varšava vzlétla jak bájný Felix z popela.
Il Concerto di Varsavia non è una musica romantica. Anzi, sta a un milione di chilometri da ogni romanticismo. Lo sembra soltanto. È musica di guerra. È la guerra vista da lontano, la guerra "che non si sa come finirà", la guerra "che fa abbassare la testa", ma guerra. Solo guerra. Anche nelle foto di questo filmato la guerra è lontana, è passata, è andata via, fa abbassare la testa, non si sa come finirà o non si sa "a cosa porterà", e le foto, guarda caso, risultano perfette. Questa musica è l'unico concerto per piano e orchestra dove le donne - sempre splendenti, sempre irraggiungibili e sempre ineguagliabili nell'interpretazione - non riescono mai a suonare in modi davvero credibili. Forse perché non c'è niente sui cui splendere e brillare. Forse perché la soluzione non dipende da un'anima o due, ma dalla massa, dalla forza d'urto, dal peso che i maschi coordinati riusciranno dopo sforzi giganteschi a fornire in battaglia. L'amore delle donne è infatti infinito e guarda all'eternità, la vita guarda al sublime, cioè all'atto della nascita. Ma la guerra invece calcola. Calcola i tempi, gli uomini, i destini, i mezzi e i soldi, calcola il prima, il durante, il dopo. Ormai io non ho più dubbi: il Concerto di Varsavia è metà cuore e metà calcolo, cioè i maschi stessi.
The Poles survived an awful lot and are richer for it.
Polacy przeżyli bardzo dużo i są za to bogatsze.
______________________
Please see my tribute video:
Proszę zobaczyć moje tribute video: SPACER PO WARSZAWIE (THEY SURVIVED THEIR TYRANNIES!)
Beautiful performance...perhaps the tempo a bit slow in some sections....
with a touch of Brahms
Doubtless a little known fact.
Belle version!Musicalité du pianiste et orchestre dont les cordes chantent.En revanche,les images sont insoutenables!
was that warsaw
+onekeypianoplayer Yes !
People who are placing ridiculous comments about what happened in Poland shoul learn about the detailed facts of the getto.
@Prychemnie The Poles survived an awful lot and are richer for it.
Polacy przeżyli bardzo dużo i są za to bogatsze.
______________________
Please see my tribute video:
Proszę zobaczyć moje tribute video: SPACER PO WARSZAWIE (THEY SURVIVED THEIR TYRANNIES!)
WHATS MY NAME!!?
who's warzawa?
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