Riascolto con piacere e tutte le volte vien fuori aspetti molto interessante sia dalla parte pianistica che orchestrale.Il pianista è formidabile,esecuzione magistrale anche dalla parte orchestrale!
hey, there, whoever can perform this is in an exalted league. read the review today in LA Times. Fluxus, Harry Partch, John Cage, Milhaud dozens of names relating to Busoni. what a Giant!!!!! DG
5:16 One of the greatest piano entrances ever, in my opinion! This is up there with the piano's entrance in Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Just unabashedly, unapologetically grand!!! 😍😍
Not a single pianist on Earth's technique comes even close in this piece. Everyone is struggling through (rightfully so). For Hamelin, it's just business as usual.
Listening to Busoni is like indulging in a musical pig-out. Sometimes you're just in the mood for music that re-arranges your soul with impolite but pure unadulterated power.
I am well stricken in years and yet I have only discovered this piece today. It proves there is always something new to experience in life. Blessings and peace to everyone of you
About 50 years or so. Ogdon did it, but this sounds better; I managed to sit through the whole thing in one go. You need a super memory. Let us not forget the magnificent piano technician who prepared this piano.
Starting from 53:10 to 53:25 - 15 seconds of madness! What a challenge to human speed limit.... I am always stunned by watching this again, again and again.... I love Hamelin, I love Busoni!!
What is your point here? Chopin etudes and a 15 second spasm of octaves are two completely different subject matters. You're telling me you watched that thinking, "pooh, Chopin etudes are more difficult," with no thought given to the tremendous speed, strength, and endurance required for a mere 15 seconds of playing? Chopin etudes are more difficult in other ways but in what way are they relevant? Nobody claimed that this section was impossible.
@@epicaunleashed8764 "Better" is very subjective. I was talking about it being the most monumental piano concerto, I think that's just an objective statement. Not my favorite piano concerto, though. :)
How can the audience keep from leaping to its feet after such a magnificent performance of such an astoundingly brilliant work of art? Takes my breath away every time.
Because they are Finns! Nordic peoples are not given to showy behaviour and the audience will have been aware that the occasion was being filmed, possibly for video release.
@@stephenhall3515 I second that... and moreover .. it is sooo frick'n cold in Finland most of the time, plus if it is in the winter, it never gets light... so all in all, the public may just be stuck in the hibernation cycle, and applauding like they did! is all they can muster. Just trying to defend them, lol!
Me too. I don't know what the others are hearing. Quite possibly the most generous piece of music ever composed, a miracle of integration of diverse musical ideas.
The final coda starting at 1:07:40 to the end of the concerto was so flawlessly executed - I don't know if I've seen such perfection and fearlessness in an ending, let alone to something as massive as this. I couldn't help but feel after watching this video for the first time that life is all downhill from here...I can only imagine how it is for those who were there live. I can't imagine someone not having the stamina to watch this whole thing in one sitting - I can't stop watching!
My piano teacher, Isador Epstein, ninety-one when I went to him for lessons back in the '70's, had studied under Busoni. He put me straight onto Czerny studies.
Un des plus brillant pianiste de notre temps MA Hamelin , que j’ai eu la joie d’entendre en concert à Paris, dans le monumental concerto de piano de Busoni avec chœur découvert en concert au TCE il y a de nombreuses années.Superbe diabolique !
I long hoped that a video of this would appear. The quality of this is pretty decent. Any recording of Marc-André Hamelin is very welcomed! Thank you very much for uploading this.
Gran concerto-sinfonia originale per architettura, virtuosismo, corale, possente, drammatico e sublime. Busoni un genio. Ed eccellenti interpreti tutti.
I find it woefully amusing that what is typically considered the easiest/simplest key (C major) has given birth to what is quite possibly the grandest and most difficult piano concerto ever performed.
A masterpiece. Seriously worthy of consideration in top 5 piano concertos along with Beethoven 4 and 5, Rach 3, Brahms 2. Best listened to looking up at stars in a clear night sky; the waves of invention and emotion here should be sent across the universe as a representation of humanity.
What dumb, illiterate choices for the top spots -- the ridiculous products that are Beethoven's concerti should be among the greatest ever? Luckily music has much better to offer to the ear
So proud of my fellow Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin for tackling and superb playing of this lengthy and complex concerto by Busoni. Nothing is left out of this work -- the choir in the 5th movement adds a lot of emotion to the composition. No mention is made of the excellent orchestra and conductor. Do I presume it's the Lahti Symphony Orchestra? Sibelius Hall opened in 2000; one year before this performance.
Most casual listeners aren't prepared to deal with such a large, expansive, complex work with so many dimensions. The piano part is ferociously difficult, but so are many other concertos. This is a masterpiece in the first degree.
some reasons why i dislike this concerto is because most of the concerto sounds like a build up to nowhere, most of the piano part is completely useless and the chorale at the end adds absolutely nothing to the piece
Hamelin plays with amazing disinvoltura but with equally amazing panache . The complex rhythms of this work make it one of the most challenging in all music are wonderfully performed. At the 33rd minute listen to the the almost Bachian discipline with which Busoni constructs one of the most riveting sequences in the history of music.............What I love most about this concerto is the perfect synthesis of Italianate show and Teutonic orderliness. It is a masterpiece of the first order
A tousend words will never be enough to express the greatness of this Fantastic Masterpiece !!! From now on I think all other piano concertos lays on the shadows of this one.
I heard yhis concerto msny years ago for the first time and each time i hear it i am stunned by it . What a magnificent piece of music . The pianist must be absolutely shattered when they finish playing it
I can hear somo Prokofiev and Liszt legacy in there. Even some chordal voicings that resemble Rachmaninof's style, but this concert was composed when Rach was not that famous yet. Beautifully written and performed.
Mark Swed just reviewed this LA Times today. He's the greatest writer ever!!!! what an event for SF ! seems a little bombastic on first hearing for me. You gotta love Busoni vast influence on the culture. A name almost forgotten today. He performed and conducted this at various times. Waiting to see Hamelin play the TUBA!>:? DG
It's a shame the recording quality isn't very good. Hamelin was probably shaking the walls of Sibelius Hall with that thundering entrance. A true grand master of the piano. Also, I can see why this piece isn't popular - it has a few great parts, but the whole thing is so unbelievably difficult for both orchestra and pianist, and all that without very many melodic rewards (which are plentiful in, e.g., Rachmaninov's concerti). I still love this recording though.
I have only just recently discovered this piece of music, and I have to be honest, I didn't really like it at first - it was too unrelaxed, too shifty, too unstable. But I've gotten used to it since then, and now I feel like I understand the work a lot more. I think that's all that it takes with this kind of music - the more you expose yourself to it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you can make out what it's trying to tell you. :)
I believe Andre Marc Hamelin is as great a pianist as Gilels and possibly even Richter.His vivid imagination, transcendental virtuosity and countless expressive insights place him in the category of Lhevinne, Hofmann, Rubinstein, Godowsky, Rosenthal, Gilels, Richter and even Horowitz, not to mention Serkin and Brendel.Possibly one of the greatest pianists ever.
I love this version more than the Hypérion CD one. It is... ballistc, wild, crazy! The Alla Italiana is absolutely bone-crushing. The CD sounds a bit plastic and cautious, as if someone restricts the sheer fury. After listening to this version, my limbs are jittering. Busoni is a monster.
Really outstanding thanks for uploading this!! Busoni was an incredible innovative composer! Amazing piano concerto played by one of the greatest pianist in the world!!
Absolutely astounding. I hope "mentor1954" is not mentoring anybody with regard to music or having an open mind to unfamiliar things. Structure abounds in this piece. Themes carry through the entire work. There are melodic and rhythmic motifs that tie the whole thing together. I assure you Mr. Hamelin would not be playing the entire thing securely by memory if there wasn't strong unity within its structure. He actually stands this piece on its ear and plays it like a large piece of chamber music. Astounding playing of a gargantuan piece.
Not only the largest, but also the most beautiful piano concerto ever composed. Note how the piano acts more as a percussion than a melodic instrument. And Mr Hamelin has reached the top of the ladder. (I wonder whether this is the Polytechnic Choir? The brilliance makes me think it's them.)
That looks exhausting for the pianist, conductor, orchestra, choir (!), and audience. And Marc-André Hamelin seems to have all 70 minutes memorized. And he barely breaks a sweat. I don't think I'd ever have the stamina to watch all of this, but I'm glad you posted it.
Probably one of the very best of the Hamelin performances, to be bracketed with that of Gunnar Johansen. Bravura passages come easily to Mr Hamelin's fingers.
I've never heard of Busoni I read somewhere he matched Rubenstein and Liszt's in virtuosity and then i found this. This is a masterwork beyond beleif. pure magic and genius. I'm also gland hamelin is playing this.
Actually, most amazingly difficult pieces aren't that difficult to memorise, seeing the amount of time one has to spend on each part! The hardest things to remember are things that don't take much work
So marvellous to revive such glorious piano concertos that demand the most demanding virtuosity to execute, parts of this work leave me aghast as a piano player that seem almost staggering to comprehend how long it would require in months of preparatory practice to play many of the passages, it is very Lisztian in character to me and has those influences taking technicality to an extreme. To think it is C major also
If a chorus is available, why shouldn't the version with chorus be used? I think this is a wonderful piano concerto - "magisterial" might be the word for it. And when you hear the opening piano cadenza with those massive chords encompassing the entire keyboard, and then you come to the E-major opening theme for the chorus much later, and learn that the cadenza was in reality the harmonic foundation for that chorus, you realize what a brilliant masterstroke this transformation is.
Just 9 minutes into the concerto and I'm speechless. My first hearing of this concerto after I googled "the longest piano concerto". After hearing Rachmaninoff"s Piano Concerto #3.
I've got very bad taste because a) I love this and b) I especially love the 3rd movement. I used to have a recording of John Ogdon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing this under the baton of Daniel Revenaugh. It was quite superb. But so is this performance.
Quite a few years ago I was able to get a ticket to see/hear Evgeny Kissin in a Carnegie Hall recital. I waited backstage on a long line afterward to meet & greet him (and have him sign a recent CD). I asked him if he might ever perform the Busoni. He answered emphatically "NO!" (quite rudely I thought at the time). I wonder why?
Probably for the same reason that so many other pianists have refused to play the Busoni, and it has nothing to do with an ability to play it. It just comes down to pure snobbery. As I was once told by an amazing, eminent pianist, "It's just not a good piece of music. Why should I waste my time with it when there's so much better repertoire to learn?"
This is a wonderful work....I only needed to hear it once and I then purchased the vinyl version of John Ogdon doing this work...and that record has OUTSTANDING sonics to go with this ANGELIC music !
Merveilleux cela ne vaut pas celui interprété par Lugangki. Mais de très beaux passages très émouvants pour ce morceau extraordinaire et ultra technique main gauche.. Bravo me Lankova, je le joue mais❤ tellement moins bien, par ailleurs sachez, madame que vous êtes d'une très grande beauté. V. JOLIVET
@@AndrewRudin Makes me think of Sleepy Joe holding a press conference in the Oval Office and telling reporters he needs to stop for a minute to go relieve himself-and then goes to the room with MAIL on the door.
I. Prologo e Introito 0:52
II. Pezzo giocoso 16:18
III. Pezzo serioso 25:14
IV. All'Italiana 46:08
V. Cantico 57:46
Dank
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@@ruthsalgado6775 hello, didn't expect to see you here!
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Riascolto con piacere e tutte le volte vien fuori aspetti molto interessante sia dalla parte pianistica che orchestrale.Il pianista è formidabile,esecuzione magistrale anche dalla parte orchestrale!
50:58 - Hamelin is both the solo pianist and the tuba player - very impressive!
Indeed
Yes
Bruhh 😂😂
Yeah, he happens to have an identical twin who happens to play tuba in this orchestra... case solved, my dear Watson!
Loll
One of the finest pianist to ever walk this earth, period.
Unquestionably!
Indeed!
Es una aparición tantos años interprtando sus estudios. Que gusto !!!!🏆🇮🇷🥇📕
hey, there, whoever can perform this is in an exalted league. read the review today in LA Times. Fluxus, Harry Partch, John Cage, Milhaud dozens of names relating to Busoni.
what a Giant!!!!! DG
Sure. other honorable mentions could be Katsaris and Argerich
This concerto is really impressive. The more I listen to it, the more I love it.
5:16 One of the greatest piano entrances ever, in my opinion! This is up there with the piano's entrance in Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Just unabashedly, unapologetically grand!!! 😍😍
Even Marc-Andre Hamelin can't make this piece look easy.
From 53:10 to 53:25 he looks like he's about to explode. I can physically feel his pain.
@@calebhu6383 i think my Symphony 9 transcription has difficulty as same as this.
@@franzliszt4883 Liszt! Glad to have you back mate.
Not a single pianist on Earth's technique comes even close in this piece. Everyone is struggling through (rightfully so). For Hamelin, it's just business as usual.
yes indeed, it looks like Czerny 299 to him, while all the other hard pieces are as easy as faber level 1 for him😂
Listening to Busoni is like indulging in a musical pig-out. Sometimes you're just in the mood for music that re-arranges your soul with impolite but pure unadulterated power.
"...a musical pig-out."...well there is definitely something pig-like about it!
Yes. After listening to it all you feel like you’ve been porked.
The most dramatic soloist's entrance of any piano concerto ever. And one of the best concertos ever, period.
That's for sure!
Amen.
Absolutely. After hearing this rendition, nobody comes close lol.
Indeed.
@@stefanbernhard2710 ogdons
Hombre y mujer. 47 y 48 años. Argentinos. Vimos el concierto completo mientras cenabamos. Y nos suscribimos al canal. ❤
Without doubts the most extraordinary and ambitious piano concerto ever written. Too much grandiose even for it's own genre.
I am well stricken in years and yet I have only discovered this piece today. It proves there is always something new to experience in life. Blessings and peace to everyone of you
I hope you are still enjoying this piece, my friend.
Me too. Better late than…
I can't imagine the amount of practice it would take to learn this piece. And to play a 70-minutes piece from memory!
About 50 years or so. Ogdon did it, but this sounds better; I managed to sit through the whole thing in one go. You need a super memory. Let us not forget the magnificent piano technician who prepared this piano.
You don't need a super memory, because concert pianists have literally over a days worth of repertoire in their heads!
I can't believe this was broadcast on MTV3. They would never do that today.
Seriously? That's awesome.
MTV3 = a Finnish TV station. Has nothing to do with ‘Music Televsion’ MTV.
@@pianoatthirty I know, that's what I was talking about and they would not broadcast this today.
Starting from 53:10 to 53:25 - 15 seconds of madness! What a challenge to human speed limit.... I am always stunned by watching this again, again and again....
I love Hamelin, I love Busoni!!
I think this is the kind of stuff that Sorabji was heavily influenced by. He throws insane passages like that all around his works.
I've never seen a passage like this in Sorabji's music.. Actually, fast octave passages are not a very common thing in his music
What is your point here? Chopin etudes and a 15 second spasm of octaves are two completely different subject matters.
You're telling me you watched that thinking, "pooh, Chopin etudes are more difficult," with no thought given to the tremendous speed, strength, and endurance required for a mere 15 seconds of playing?
Chopin etudes are more difficult in other ways but in what way are they relevant? Nobody claimed that this section was impossible.
Painful!!
@Archer what did you just said?
fAsT oCtAvEs?
And chopin etudes are harder?!
The most monumental piano concerto ever composed. I see no other work come close to this one!
Ever listened to Brahms 1 (+2), Rachmaninov 2+3, Tchaikovsky 1+2 etc?
@ladivinafanaticbetter than RACH 3?!?! Ridiculous!
Nothing better than Rach 4
Except maybe Prokofiev 1
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Or .....
Bortkiewicz concerto 1
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@@epicaunleashed8764 "Better" is very subjective. I was talking about it being the most monumental piano concerto, I think that's just an objective statement.
Not my favorite piano concerto, though. :)
il n'y a pas de mot pour qualifier ce pianiste, juste incroyable.
How can the audience keep from leaping to its feet after such a magnificent performance of such an astoundingly brilliant work of art? Takes my breath away every time.
After 70 minutes, they really had to pee, so they didn't want to prolong the applause or move their bodies any more than necessary!
Because they are Finns! Nordic peoples are not given to showy behaviour and the audience will have been aware that the occasion was being filmed, possibly for video release.
@@stephenhall3515 I second that... and moreover .. it is sooo frick'n cold in Finland most of the time, plus if it is in the winter, it never gets light... so all in all, the public may just be stuck in the hibernation cycle, and applauding like they did! is all they can muster. Just trying to defend them, lol!
By looking at the comments i am very pleased to know that i am not the only that thinks that this is the best piano concerto ever written!
Me too. I don't know what the others are hearing. Quite possibly the most generous piece of music ever composed, a miracle of integration of diverse musical ideas.
No, that would be the Scriabin concerto, as was made clear enough by Boulez/Ugorski.
For me, The Majestic Tchaikovsky's one, but this one also sounds great to my ear, ngl
@@syrinx9196 thats not obhective at all also boulez has no power to determine an absolute best concerto they're different and art is subjective
Definitely criminally underrated. Are people deaf? A mainstream pianist needs to tackle this one!
The final coda starting at 1:07:40 to the end of the concerto was so flawlessly executed - I don't know if I've seen such perfection and fearlessness in an ending, let alone to something as massive as this. I couldn't help but feel after watching this video for the first time that life is all downhill from here...I can only imagine how it is for those who were there live.
I can't imagine someone not having the stamina to watch this whole thing in one sitting - I can't stop watching!
It is rather addictive. It goes by in a breeze
1:07:40
My piano teacher, Isador Epstein, ninety-one when I went to him for lessons back in the '70's, had studied under Busoni. He put me straight onto Czerny studies.
One of the most underrated concerti out there.
Amen.
I'll gladly second this.
AMEN!!!
To be fair, there's maybe 5-10 pianists in the world that could pull this off
@@jeanlobrot I would LOVE to hear Argerich play this. I wonder of she still learns new repertoire
Un des plus brillant pianiste de notre temps MA Hamelin , que j’ai eu la joie d’entendre en concert à Paris, dans le monumental concerto de piano de Busoni avec chœur découvert en concert au TCE il y a de nombreuses années.Superbe diabolique !
Merci pour votre appréciation.MAF
I long hoped that a video of this would appear. The quality of this is pretty decent. Any recording of Marc-André Hamelin is very welcomed! Thank you very much for uploading this.
Gracias por Bussoni. 💕🎶🇮🇷México.
Gran concerto-sinfonia originale per architettura, virtuosismo, corale, possente, drammatico e sublime. Busoni un genio. Ed eccellenti interpreti tutti.
I find it woefully amusing that what is typically considered the easiest/simplest key (C major) has given birth to what is quite possibly the grandest and most difficult piano concerto ever performed.
You are absolutely right!!!
Lol I find it one of the most difficult when it comes to fast octaves
@@scriabinismydog2439 Look up Alexei Grynyuk.
@@Santosificationable Yes I know him. He left me speechless
U know that the piece changes keys and is a bit atonal in several places..........so technically, the whole piece is not in C major.
A masterpiece. Seriously worthy of consideration in top 5 piano concertos along with Beethoven 4 and 5, Rach 3, Brahms 2.
Best listened to looking up at stars in a clear night sky; the waves of invention and emotion here should be sent across the universe as a representation of humanity.
What dumb, illiterate choices for the top spots -- the ridiculous products that are Beethoven's concerti should be among the greatest ever? Luckily music has much better to offer to the ear
I would also add Scriabin Concerto to your list and Medtner 3 too
Yes, it's so much better than it sounds!
Moszkowski concerto in e major
Mr. Hamelin's virtuosity has grown so incredible that he no longer needs music in order to play the piano...!
Same with most soloists. Concertos tend to be played from memory
So proud of my fellow Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin for tackling and superb playing of this lengthy and complex concerto by Busoni. Nothing is left out of this work -- the choir in the 5th movement adds a lot of emotion to the composition. No mention is made of the excellent orchestra and conductor. Do I presume it's the Lahti Symphony Orchestra? Sibelius Hall opened in 2000; one year before this performance.
I don't understand all the negativity regarding either Busoni or this great Concerto that conitinually shows creative invention, oh well.
Most casual listeners aren't prepared to deal with such a large, expansive, complex work with so many dimensions. The piano part is ferociously difficult, but so are many other concertos. This is a masterpiece in the first degree.
@@jamesdomine its s favourite of mine. Im a professionally trained organist and i csn enjoy it
some reasons why i dislike this concerto is because most of the concerto sounds like a build up to nowhere, most of the piano part is completely useless and the chorale at the end adds absolutely nothing to the piece
There can be no negativity. This is a brilliant piece, a perfect display of busonis pianistical overwhelmingness
Agreed. It has a cult following at least.
Hamelin plays with amazing disinvoltura but with equally amazing panache . The complex rhythms of this work make it one of the most challenging in all music are wonderfully performed. At the 33rd minute listen to the the almost Bachian discipline with which Busoni constructs one of the most riveting sequences in the history of music.............What I love most about this concerto is the perfect synthesis of Italianate show and Teutonic orderliness. It is a masterpiece of the first order
I've just discovered Busoni here. This could be the start of something wonderful.
@jeremywilliams5107 Absolutely. Listen to his sonatinas as well.
@jeremywilliams5107 Absolutely wonderful. Try his sonatinas as well.
A tousend words will never be enough to express the greatness of this Fantastic Masterpiece !!! From now on I think all other piano concertos lays on the shadows of this one.
A great horn player from Busoni's time, Wendell Hoss, heard him play in concert and thought that Busoni was the greatest pianist of that era.
This is quite good. This is the first time I've ever heard music by Busoni.
Amazing piece of music. One of my favourite piano concertos
I heard yhis concerto msny years ago for the first time and each time i hear it i am stunned by it . What a magnificent piece of music . The pianist must be absolutely shattered when they finish playing it
Sempre grandissimo, Hamelin!!!
I was honestly quite surprised when the voices came in. I'm glad I discovered this beautiful work.
I can listen to Hamelin all day, all week, all month - forever!
I can hear somo Prokofiev and Liszt legacy in there. Even some chordal voicings that resemble Rachmaninof's style, but this concert was composed when Rach was not that famous yet. Beautifully written and performed.
one life is not sufficient for studying this composition
y de memoria !!!!
It seemed sufficient for Hamelin.
elgatosucio SIIIII 🙌
This is like one of those dreams you have that's so much more vivid than any other dream you had before it
Mark Swed just reviewed this LA Times today. He's the greatest writer ever!!!! what an event for SF ! seems a little bombastic on first hearing for me. You gotta love Busoni vast influence on the culture.
A name almost forgotten today. He performed and conducted this at various times. Waiting to see Hamelin play the TUBA!>:? DG
Hard to believe...Astounding musical conception and perfomance!!
Busoni is one of the greatest composers of the human history and this sublime concerto is an absolute masterpiece.
Greatest is Rossini or Prokofiev
Umm okay, but what about others?
@@babygirl4169 You just behave yerself Baby Girl!😆👍
@@chezbe Why?
@@babygirl4169 we aren't talking about others. We're talking about Busoni 😊
It's a shame the recording quality isn't very good. Hamelin was probably shaking the walls of Sibelius Hall with that thundering entrance. A true grand master of the piano.
Also, I can see why this piece isn't popular - it has a few great parts, but the whole thing is so unbelievably difficult for both orchestra and pianist, and all that without very many melodic rewards (which are plentiful in, e.g., Rachmaninov's concerti).
I still love this recording though.
I personally adore this piece, but this is the only recording I like. I think that without the energy of this recording, it falls flat.
@@pyramo3170 ❤❤
59:45 absolutely superb...
I have only just recently discovered this piece of music, and I have to be honest, I didn't really like it at first - it was too unrelaxed, too shifty, too unstable. But I've gotten used to it since then, and now I feel like I understand the work a lot more. I think that's all that it takes with this kind of music - the more you expose yourself to it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you can make out what it's trying to tell you. :)
You explain exactly what my comment tells
True. The essence of it is what counts
Rock and roll! Fantastic!
I believe Andre Marc Hamelin is as great a pianist as Gilels and possibly even Richter.His vivid imagination, transcendental virtuosity and countless expressive insights place him in the category of Lhevinne, Hofmann, Rubinstein, Godowsky, Rosenthal, Gilels, Richter and even Horowitz, not to mention Serkin and Brendel.Possibly one of the greatest pianists ever.
Happy new year! Couldnt let the night pass without listening to this monumental concerto
pianista eccezionale,compositore,forse anche direttore :busoni era un artista completo,unico.
I love this version more than the Hypérion CD one. It is... ballistc, wild, crazy! The Alla Italiana is absolutely bone-crushing. The CD sounds a bit plastic and cautious, as if someone restricts the sheer fury. After listening to this version, my limbs are jittering. Busoni is a monster.
Bravo! Amazing! as Always! with Hamelin!
A treat to behold. Thank you for posting this Mr. Italia !
Well it certainly divides opinion, it's certainly virtuosic, novel & sublime in places.
Really outstanding thanks for uploading this!! Busoni was an incredible innovative composer! Amazing piano concerto played by one of the greatest pianist in the world!!
Busoni was next-level genius
Marvel splendor charming love wonderful Ferruccio Busoni.
one of the greatest pieces for piano ever written!
Que gusto escucharlo. ❤Bach-Bussoni Lizst - Bussoni. La Campalnela. Y muchísimos más que aprendí en mis clases de piano🎶🎶🎶🇮🇷. Un genio enorme
4th movement cadenza begins at 55:43
Absolutely astounding. I hope "mentor1954" is not mentoring anybody with regard to music or having an open mind to unfamiliar things. Structure abounds in this piece. Themes carry through the entire work. There are melodic and rhythmic motifs that tie the whole thing together. I assure you Mr. Hamelin would not be playing the entire thing securely by memory if there wasn't strong unity within its structure. He actually stands this piece on its ear and plays it like a large piece of chamber music. Astounding playing of a gargantuan piece.
El mas grande virtuoso viviente sin dudas. Hamelin y argerich son los pianistas mas increibles que escuche
Not only the largest, but also the most beautiful piano concerto ever composed. Note how the piano acts more as a percussion than a melodic instrument. And Mr Hamelin has reached the top of the ladder. (I wonder whether this is the Polytechnic Choir? The brilliance makes me think it's them.)
Enthusiastic audience response from deadpan fans..deserved a standing ovation!!
That looks exhausting for the pianist, conductor, orchestra, choir (!), and audience. And Marc-André Hamelin seems to have all 70 minutes memorized. And he barely breaks a sweat. I don't think I'd ever have the stamina to watch all of this, but I'm glad you posted it.
I came here from Yahoo answers for 'longest piano concerto ever written.'
52:04 ITCHY&SCRATCHY SONG!
Чтобы наполнить душу восторгом, надо обязательно прослушать этот великий концерт - весь, целиком!
Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner and Alkan, and into the 20rh century with Busoni, Sorabji, Alistair Hinton and others. Huge structures.
❤❤❤❤Love! So exciting and OTT!
Probably one of the very best of the Hamelin performances, to be bracketed with that of Gunnar Johansen. Bravura passages come easily to Mr Hamelin's fingers.
Johansen recorded this?!
I've never heard of Busoni I read somewhere he matched Rubenstein and Liszt's in virtuosity and then i found this. This is a masterwork beyond beleif. pure magic and genius. I'm also gland hamelin is playing this.
the chorus part is so beautifully written. men's chorus is really powerful, and divine
Hamelin is the finest pianist in the world today
What an epic &
festive monster !!!
Bravo to all !!
Actually, most amazingly difficult pieces aren't that difficult to memorise, seeing the amount of time one has to spend on each part! The hardest things to remember are things that don't take much work
So marvellous to revive such glorious piano concertos that demand the most demanding virtuosity to execute, parts of this work leave me aghast as a piano player that seem almost staggering to comprehend how long it would require in months of preparatory practice to play many of the passages, it is very Lisztian in character to me and has those influences taking technicality to an extreme. To think it is C major also
If you get it, you get it. If you don't move onto something else. For me it is like nothing else in the world.
53:23 One of the most banger passages in all of classical music
If a chorus is available, why shouldn't the version with chorus be used?
I think this is a wonderful piano concerto - "magisterial" might be the word for it. And when you hear the opening piano cadenza with those massive chords encompassing the entire keyboard, and then you come to the E-major opening theme for the chorus much later, and learn that the cadenza was in reality the harmonic foundation for that chorus, you realize what a brilliant masterstroke this transformation is.
I wish to have this piano player in my progressive rock band.
Just 9 minutes into the concerto and I'm speechless. My first hearing of this concerto after I googled "the longest piano concerto". After hearing Rachmaninoff"s Piano Concerto #3.
I've got very bad taste because a) I love this and b) I especially love the 3rd movement. I used to have a recording of John Ogdon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing this under the baton of Daniel Revenaugh. It was quite superb. But so is this performance.
The All'Italiana is filled with jest and, well, culture!
strepitoso. Come è possibile non includerlo tra le composizioni che meritano di essere conosciute !
Quite a few years ago I was able to get a ticket to see/hear Evgeny Kissin in a Carnegie Hall recital. I waited backstage on a long line afterward to meet & greet him (and have him sign a recent CD). I asked him if he might ever perform the Busoni. He answered emphatically "NO!" (quite rudely I thought at the time). I wonder why?
He wouldn't have either the power or stamina to deliver such a piece properly, much as I like Kissin.
Probably for the same reason that so many other pianists have refused to play the Busoni, and it has nothing to do with an ability to play it. It just comes down to pure snobbery. As I was once told by an amazing, eminent pianist, "It's just not a good piece of music. Why should I waste my time with it when there's so much better repertoire to learn?"
This is a wonderful work....I only needed to hear it once and I then purchased the vinyl version of John Ogdon doing this work...and that record has OUTSTANDING sonics to go with this ANGELIC music !
Merveilleux cela ne vaut pas celui interprété par Lugangki. Mais de très beaux passages très émouvants pour ce morceau extraordinaire et ultra technique main gauche.. Bravo me Lankova, je le joue mais❤ tellement moins bien, par ailleurs sachez, madame que vous êtes d'une très grande beauté. V. JOLIVET
An absolute Tour de Force! Bravo Marc-André
Hamelin. Just perfection. A fine musicologist
The solo entry is simply EPIC, like a page from Homer!
This is my comfort piece
My mom: multi-tasking isn't gonna get you anywhere.
Hamelin: 50:57
copeed
copeed
copeed
The first time I have heard a piano concerto with a mail voice choir. Magnificent!
A "mail" voice choir? LOL.
@@AndrewRudin Makes me think of Sleepy Joe holding a press conference in the Oval Office and telling reporters he needs to stop for a minute to go relieve himself-and then goes to the room with MAIL on the door.
Male
By the time this has finished,you've missed the last train home.
ian hall ...the day after you intended to go home? 😀 Best wishes for a safe journey (through life)
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@@musik350 amazing comment
Bravissimo hamelin,una faticaccia x tante note senza contenuto. concerto ampolloso, ridondante,privo di emozione, almeno x me!!!!
Gran director y orquesta con Bussoni. ♥️
53:59 Brilliant. I hate to say it but this even surpasses Liszt.
Interestingly that piece evokes a sort of proto-jazz feeling which was definitely based from Beethoven!