Hummel Piano Concerto 3 in b minor op. 89 1/4

[flux688]

thank you for the upload! I only just heard part of this on pandora and had to hear the rest. it's lovely!

[levikingdelamontagne]

un très bon amis de Ludwig aussi

[nutcase4real]

His teacher was Wolfgang Amedaus Mozart what do you expect? This guy is awesome.

[Ottozimerman]

M'encanta aquest concert, és brillantíssim. La presentació és excelsa i l'entrada del piano és absolutament deliciosa. Tota la peça traspua força i energia sàviament combinada amb seny i bon gust. Romàntic nocturn.

[xPaulinhaKawaii]

Hummel é um compositor por muitas vezes desconsiderado ou esquecido, mas, tem uma habilidade muito profunda que muitos não dão valor. Hummel pode ser considerado sem pestanejar um dos melhores compositores da história da música erudita.

Mas, não posso esquecer de mencionar que quem executou é excepcional!!

[dukedome]

"decoration appears swollen and unsupported by the structure..." (charles rosen)

[robertroy1940]

A SUPERB PIANO CONCERTO INITS OWN RIGHT. HOWARD SHELLEY, A GREAT PIANO PLAYER IN HIS RIGHT BUT THIS INTEPRATATION IS IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN.

[papsofjura]

What a wonderful piece this is, never heard it before. Lovely orchestration and piano writing, thought it was Mendelssohn. Wow! Like the picture as well - what is it?

[FilmComposeRaHoppe]

Wow actually I wanted to listen to F. Limmer, was very amazed about his music, then I saw the name Ferdinand Ries, which I did not know before as well, then I found this link.. My point is that listening to classical music's like walking through the woods you haven't been to before, and there are thousands of little and beautiful paths and you never know where to go first and once you have chosen your path, there will be another crossroad soon.. and everytime you say "wow this is beautiful" :)

[yenbadcito]

@FilmComposeRaHoppe i think the more we get into classical music, the more we find out we dont know about it. im just starting and its like there are so many composers, its hard to keep track. its also sad that so many of them fall into oblivion or their oeuvre is lost...

[mrlouis1421]

@FilmComposeRaHoppe Yes, I couldn't agree more. Listening to classical music allows one to use the imagination, whether it's a walk through the woods or passing through a fjord. The rewards increase when one unearths a forgotten composer such as Ries, Hummel or Czerny, to name a few.

[barrypotter09]

Anyone else here because of the X-Files episode, "Chinga"?

[jiririji]

@barrypotter09 Get out of here

[barrypotter09]

@jiririji Haha good one!

[thiagosoler]

@barrypotter09 Me!!

Google: piano concerto x-files.

Result: this great work. 

[mrlouis1421]

The early part of the 19th century saw much change, thanks to the French

Revolution which did away with the patronage system. Haydn was one of the first musicians to benefit from it. Younger composers joined in; Beethoven, Schubert & Weber. Others like Ries or Hummel lagged behind in stature. In this work, Hummel accentuates the dawning of the Romantic era. Like Ries, there're hints foretelling Chopin. Let's enjoy this work on its own merits without comparing it to, say, Beethoven.

[jaho101]

@mrlouis1421 a bit less of foretelling with regards to chopin, but more like Chopin modeled his concertos in large part on hummels

[mrlouis1421]

@jaho101 I meant foreteling in its pure chrononogical sense. The present always looks to the past for a continuum, so that accepting this as a premise, Chopin is a sum product of what preceded him. Whether his myriad piano works in general or his 2 concertos in particular were modeled after Hummel is a matter of critical (& enjoyable) discusion. I also find some elements of Czerny & Ries in Chopin, who became quite unique by using Polish rhythms heretofore rarely, if ever used before.

[pandaumk3]

Beautiful!

[mjooe]

a lot of fluff without any meaning . beethoven,tchaikovsky mozart concertos have more of a story to tell.they get your attention early on. what is hummel trying to say in this work? a lot of drama around nothing. i like some of hummel music, but this concerto needs a central theme

[Anotherqween]

Liszt was who played this concerto when he was eleven years old!!!

[1980NewWave]

Just recently started exploring Hummel's music. This concerto really does seem like a cross between Beethoven and Chopin (which, considering when Hummel was at his composing prime, would make sense), though perhaps a bit more like the former than the latter.

I wonder why Hummel generally isn't remembered among the "greats"?

[BenMcCormack91]

@1980NewWave Hummel never did anything particularly revolutionary. He, Chopin, and Dussek composed concertos pretty much the same way - the orchestration is thin and serves pretty much only as harmonic padding for the solo, unlike most concertos, where it is given more complexity and texture.

The reason you recognize Chopin's name more than Dussek or Hummel is because Chopin's solo piano music is quite revolutionary. His concerti are only famous because his other music made his name.

[BenMcCormack91]

@1980NewWave Not that I'm giving any particular opinion on Chopin's concertos, or Hummel's for that matter. I'm merely saying that they don't do anything particularly revolutionary. Composers who do the old stuff well tend to fade with time. Composers who invent new things tend to stick. All the "greats" are generally known for changing music considerably in some way. Chopin revolutionized piano music, Haydn invented the String Quartet, and hell, we're still trying to figure out Mahler.

[britcrit09]

Such a marvelous piece to listen to. It's a shame that it stopped at my favourite part... I guess it just builds the suspense to the next part!

[vHumboldt77]

just browse it among the videos --all the 3movements are there (the fist movement is divided into 2 vdeos). Look out for the same landscape in the picture and you'll hit them easily! Rgds, Patricio

[2008Gabyzinha2008]

I'm reading a biography romance about Liszt life, "Hungarian Rhapsody" and can tell you that it was Liszt who played it....the book says he went to a music house in Vienna and played it at first sight, at the age of ten!!!

[chopinandliszt]

the BEST pupil of Mozart

[frogbuster20]

this is Hummel?? Damn, I thought I had a pretty good overview of classical music,... Nice!

[PhilippeThomas84]

Flawless !!!

Philippe Thomas

[Paracelsus72]

Yes, I would swear it was Hough's (magnificent) performance here. : )

[jre58591]

This can't be Howard Shelley playing this, for he hasn't recorded this concerto. This is the Stephen Hough recording.

[marweil8888]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was a great composer, he has excellent works, unfortunately he was a little forgotten behind all the other composer in this time.

[xanthopsized]

Finally someone posted this magnificent piano concerto. Thank you very much for posting this piece which I believe is the best piano concerto ever written (in fact it's the 1st movement which I adore). With all due respect to all other composers (even my champion beethoven), this 1st movement is by far the best.

[eddiemperor]

I heard this was one of most difficult concertos to play , Beethoven and Liszt played it when they were young musicians.

[elias12186]

beethoven?

[eddiemperor]

Don't Know if it was Beethoven or Liszt.

[elias12186]

it certainly wasnt beethoven

[Pauliwog13]

@eddiemperor Chopin not beethoven

[FranzLisztian]

@eddiemperor

according to my liszt biography by alan walker liszt played this frequently when he travelled with his father adam around europe, it was very popular too. 

[xanthopsized]

Yes elias12186, definately not Beethoven for a multitude of reasons:

1- Beethoven was older that Hummel.

2- Beethoven and Hummel were rivals and hated each other until little before Beethoven's death.

3- I have never heard of Beethoven preforming somebody elses music, it is a good subject for research though.

[linceed87]

@xanthopsized

well beethoven actually played a lot of mozart, and based a lot of his compositionson mozart, he actually wrote two cadenzas for mozarts 20th piano concerto

[chopinandliszt]

@linceed87 - True, Beethoven told his pupil, (It's unclear whether it was Cramer, or Ries) after a performance of Mozart's 24th piano concerto in 1799 "we shall not be able to do anything like that". Beethoven performed the work several times during his lifetime and his love for it is clearly shown in his own piano concerto in the same key. (Op.37)

[hernannews]

@xanthopsized Beethoven performed Mozart piano concertos on a few occasions. he even wrote cadenze for some of them including the magnificient ones for the No 20

[fortunaclaus]

wonderful composition; I am loving it.

thanx for posting ...

[Cantormatis]

funny how I hear echoes of his teacher, even though this is clearly a proto-romantic composition.

[pmmdrt]

Thanks for posting this amazing concerto.Hope to see soon more concertos from Hummel, I treasure it!

[collectkit]

Strangely, this was my first piano concerto that i learned to listen by heart, and it's pretty bad...because afterward, only like 2-3 piano concertos (out of like 40~50 i learned later) were more or less equally as good.

This Piano concerto certainly made Beethoven's piano concerto "overrated", in my opinion.

In my opinion, this concerto has the best qualities (although very different) of Beethoven's 1&4 AND Chopin's 1&2. But of course, it totally sounds uniquely like Hummel himself.

[Silverlin212]

Wow this is the first time I've heard this piano concerto, and holy fuck!!!!! Amazing! Hummel has done his teacher(Mozart) very very proud! Love this work and thanks again elias for providing it for all to enjoy.

[WelshSaddler]

You made all the right comments, but was there any real need to swear??? Children have access to this.....

[Silverlin212]

Swearing is apart of expressive language, whether you like it or not. And as youtube does not censor swearing I am thus allowed the right. Children(as you know) are not oblivious to swearing by any means. If a child is unsupervised on the net then my swearing is the 'least' of your worries. If supervised then the comment should be explained by the parent and put into context. I'm sorry if you found my swearing in poor taste, but maybe you needed offending :)

[WelshSaddler]

Thank you for the courtesy of a well constructed reply..... but if you think anyone "needs offending" then surely by definition that is being offensive merely for the sake of being offensive, which isn't in the best taste.

[Silverlin212]

My intent was to express myself whole heartly and honestly, NOT trying to offend anyone. What I mean't when I said you MIGHT need offending was more of a philosophical question 'how do you know what you're meant to be experiencing right now? Well you're experiencing it thats how'. Though following that same logic maybe I needed your criticism, even if only to reply to it.

[oakroom48]

I love Hummel! Thank you for posting this characteristically spirited concerto that I had not heard before!! Very nice performance & super painting [or is it a photograph?] :)