Einojuhani Rautavaara: Piano Concerto No. 1, Mvt. I

[picardynerd]

Oh, it's flawless!

[K0MP0NIST]

This is bar far the best Rautavaara's piano concerto. The second is confusing for its programmatic form and the third is simply boring.

[IncaRoad01]

Rautavaara's Piano Concertos are great. I can't help but feel that he was influenced a lot by Bartok's Pianco Concertos in some instances. Check them out if you've yet to hear them.

[1994nejc]

i love rautavaara music

[MarcheseCadmio88]

Magnificent clusters!

[MuseDuCafe]

We can add this to that list of piano concerti which open with the solo instrument. By the time the orchestra enters, it seems like They are the soloist - a very neat turnaround of expectations. The epic gestures and heroic scale coupled with the at odds modern vocabulary and minimal orchestral gestures keep this near-parody of late high romanticism free of the sugary goo it could have been. Clever, that Finn.

[raychildish]

A man who was able to capture universal music... Awesome!

[182tubby]

what is the picture's name? thanks

[gabecore]

anybody know of some works by other composers that are this "outside" but also gorgeously tonal? stuff like Ranjbaran's The Blood of Seyavash, or Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht or Pelas und Melisande

[gabrielrockman]

@gabecore

Kaija Saariaho is another finish composer, a bit younger than Rautavaara, but there are similarities between their compositions.

For someone who's music doesn't sound nordic the way that Rautavaara, Saariaho, or other guys like Peteris Vasks and Eduard Tubin do, maybe try Gyorgy Ligeti or Giya Kancheli

[VIDE0DR0ME]

Incredibly emotive! Hearing is experiencing, and seeing is believing: The score is relatively fiendish for the concert pianist, what with the RH tone and arm clusters soaring above the LH undertow of bubbling notes. Picturesque like hawks hovering above a shimmering blue sea, this work brings tears to the imaginative.

[btp674]

@VIDE0DR0ME The thing about Rautavaara's piano writing during the period of this concerto is how well the notes "fit" the hand shapes. He thinks about the piano as a big set of symmetrical groupings in conjunction with hand symmetry. In his 1st and 2nd sonatas you can find more of this bilateral symmetry. Evidence of the sonorities that arise from this symmetrical system are found in both his piano and non piano works circa 1968-1975.

[rulleverulle]

F*cking genius!!! Better than Rachmaninov :P 

[DrFattyJr]

@rulleverulle You're right, as much as i love Rachmaninoff, you just can't beat Rautavaara.

[planmix]

@DrFattyJr  both should be immortal.

[kmal16]

The picture is Vladimir Kush. Gorgeous music indeed. I'm discovering Rautavaara's music.

[MarcheseCadmio88]

Beautiful! The picture also. Who is the artist?

[VirtualGamer42]

Incredible... also, where can I find this beautiful picture?

[geschiedschrijver]

@VirtualGamer42 You can find it on NAXOS, called "Sonic Rebellion", alternative classical collection.

NAXOS 8.570760. In a flash it may remind you to Chopin's Revolutionary etude, but then it is ALL Rautavaara!!

[FriiUili]

@VirtualGamer42

search "Vladimir Kush"

[horiac]

Strangely beautiful! great work.

[Sky84rm]

Adoro la musica di Rautavaara, è stupenda!

[yivgik]

GRANDE

[kemalmuhal]

this is incredible!!