![]() It's a good choice but I prefer Liszt's 2nd and 3rd Piano Concertos. Ivo Pogorelich is another that can play the same piece in many different ways. I don't usually read YouTube comments, but it sounds as if the commentators simply didn't realize that great players have great flexibility. But it could extend to major things like tempo, rubato and the way rhythms are handled. ![]() What might change would be small details of how phrases or dynamics are handled. On the piano someone like Glenn Gould would probably try to find a different interpretation every time. Then there are players like Julian Bream who will play it differently every time. ![]() In the guitar world there are people like John Williams who, once they settle on an interpretation, will play the piece the same way every time. There are different sorts of great players. But Martha Argerich is an amazing player and this particular performance was just stunning! If you don't know him, I suggest you hasten to listen. I have Grigory Sokolov doing the Chopin preludes. This is Martha Argerich delivering a ferocious performance w ith Christoph von Dohnányi conducting the RSO in Berlin in 1981: Now let's listen to a particularly stunning version of the piece. My favorite part is the trio of piano, flute and triangle that forms part of the third movement. The textures are also remarkably varied, not only in the polyrhythms of the piano part, but also in the use of solo orchestral instruments in dialogue with the piano. The main theme of the first movement also returns in the finale to frame the whole work. The finale in particular is a triumph of virtuoso variation technique with its use of the four themes of the Adagio and Scherzo (third movement), transformed in different rhythms and tempi. One particularly admired by Bartók is the use of the cyclic principle: themes return in varied form throughout the work. The concerto, while containing a fiendishly difficult virtuoso piano part, has a lot of other interesting features. So why didn't he complete this piano concerto when it would have been useful to him? The answer might be that Liszt actually had no need of an orchestra on stage with him! With his original compositions and a host of transcriptions and arrangements, he was entirely self-sufficient! By 1855, and the premiere of this concerto, he was appearing more as a composer than as a pianist. But by the late 1840s this was beginning to pall and in September 1847 he essentially quit his career as a piano virtuoso in favor of spending time on composition. Going back to the genesis of this concerto, Liszt's early career was as a touring virtuoso, only the second in music history, following the example of Paganini. ![]() We see this in the Liszt First Piano Concerto: One of the symptoms of this process is the appearance of a scherzo between the slow movement and the finale. As far as the concerto goes, around the 1840s the form began to absorb that of the more-prestigious symphony, producing a "symphonic concerto". Interestingly enough, it was the radical nature of his themes and harmonies with their stress on the tritone and chromatic scale, that rescued his compositions from the mere shallow brilliance of the style brillant of Thalberg and Kalkbrenner. He was, at the same time, both the greatest virtuoso (on the piano, at least) of his time and an avant-garde composer (again, of his time). Liszt's was a complex and contradictory career. It premiered in Weimar on February 17, 1855, with Liszt at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting.ĭo we date it from when when the first themes were sketched, in which case it would be among the very first romantic concertos, even pre-dating Berlioz' Harold en Italie of 1834? Or do we date it from when the final version was completed in 1849, in which case it comes after the Schumann Piano Concerto and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto? Or from the premiere in 1855? Isn't it odd that the premiere occurred so late? 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. According to Wikipedia:įranz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. It is hard to place this composition, chronologically.
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