Giovanni Sgambati - Piano Concerto in G minor Op.15 PART 1 of 4 - JORGE BOLET

[TheBulgarianThunder]

Sounds like Liszt while making a pizza!

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@TheBulgarianThunder LOL!

[sarn45]

when one thinks of it, apart from Ravel, neither by French composers was the expression "piano concerto" very popular. There are pieces for piano and orchestra by Cesar Franck, Fauré, Vincent d'Indy for instance, but no concertos. I wonder why..

[topliner1916]

@sarn45 Franck did compose an early concerto in B minor, which is available here on YouTube. He was 13 when he wrote it, but it is a remarkable piece. Check it out!

[iamkwk]

I read somewhere that this was the only 19th century piano concerto by an Italian composer. Maybe. Busoni wrote what he called "concertstuck: for piano and orchestra in the 19th century. (But how Italian was he?)

[ocopicio]

This one remains perhaps the best recording of this marvellous concerto, despite some cuts done by Bolet: I think that it is unrecognized because Sgambati was an Italian composers and in Italy piano concertos were not so popular at that time (1880). Sgambati though was very much appreciated by colleagues, amongst them Liszt and Wagner however, but also Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky

[NathanaelSaintCyr]

I think if someone arranged this concerto for a larger orchestra (not Mahler large, just with a stronger string and wind section) it would be more popular... Some of the gestures are a bit grand for a smaller concerto orchestra. Or maybe it's just the recording... Who knows...

[IrritableChicken]

thank you so much for sharing! This is probably the most unfairly unrecognized concerto ever! can't understand why. This is simply marvellous!

[ocopicio]

A very beautiful piano concerto, interesting as being an example for its Lisztian structure.

[Matmaninov]

Best concerto ever !