Liberace performs "Warsaw Concerto"

Liberace performs the Warsaw Concerto, a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). It was composed by British composer Richard Addinsell (1904-1977). The orchestration was by another Briton, Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.

The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the piece, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who is a refugee in England from the World War II occupation of Poland and considers returning to Poland to rejoin the war. The actor, Anton Walbrook, was an accomplished amateur pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, but in fact the music on the soundtrack is played by an uncredited pianist, Louis Kentner.

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Music

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• Liberace
• Warsaw
• Concerto
• Richard
• Addinsell
• Roy
• Douglas
• Dangerous
• Moonlight
• piano
• pianist

[waterbird91]

NOBODY PLAYS IT WITH MORE EMOTION THAN ''VALINTINO''. LIBERACE WILL ALWAYS BE NO. 1 HIS INTERPRETAIONS ARE DIVINE.NUFF SAID.......THIS RENDITION IS POWERFUL AND STRONG, THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED. POWER, STRENGTH & EMOTION, W/ A HEAVENLY SWEETNESS...... IT'S BREATHTAKING..................­...........

[TheGreatRichter]

His own interpretation is better than the original score in my opinion of The Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell. He has put in his own varations in places and it works better than the original played by most other pianists.

[MrCristoforoantonio]

@pardyhardly

well, I think that may be a bit extreme !!!

[BW92116]

We have some of Liberace's records from the 1950s and 1960s and I still like listening to them. For the most part they are played as the music was written. I think it was later in his career, his "Vegas era" was when he started adding all those extra arpeggios and flourishes, probably to entertain his Vegas audiences. But on his old records, you can hear his true talent; he was highly skilled and played with passion and emotion.

[pardyhardly]

I would eat Liberace's shit.

[TheEriskay]

This melody has been bugging me all week ever sinces Steven Tyler

hummed a few bars of it, on Oprah last Sunday evening. I knew

the melody, but couldn't remember the name of it. It finally came to

me tonight. Thanks for posting this!!!

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[justTrinidad]

@waterbird91 Amen- always

[BroadwayG]

Liberace did not have to be a prisoner of the written sheet music or score. His trademark was his style. We came to hear and love the Liberace touch. Do we judge a person's art by his personal life? Or does his art stand alone regardless of his personal life? Then again does his personal life influence his art? I believe all of us are the product of all we do.

[Vesivian]

cheap trick

[ladythanatolia]

Listening to his music has brought back memories of my youth...and I'm not that old! I feel transported back to the '40's, with all the romance and emotion of that era.

[bckm54]

liberace was a damn fine pianist. he was so much better than he was given credit for. hell, he was so good he was even given a role as a guest villain on the old batman tv series... :)