Ivo Pogorelich, Claudio Abbado Pt4-5 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Andantino simplice

Ivo Pogorelich, Claudio Abbado Pt4-5 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Andantino simplice - Prestissimo


Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
1 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso -
Allegro con spirito
Part 1 1of3;2of3;3of3 (3 parts)
2 Andantino simplice - Prestissimo Part2
3 Allegro con fuoco Part3
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Claudio Abbado

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Continued Part4:
Warrack adds that Rubinstein's criticisms fell into three categories. First, he thought the writing of the solo part was bad, "and certainly there are passages which even the greatest virtuoso is glad to survive unscathed, and others in which elaborate difficulties are almost inaudible beneath the orchestra."[13] Second, he mentioned "outside influences and unevenness of invention ... but it must be conceded that the music is uneven and that [it] would, like all works, seem the more uneven on a first hearing before its style had been properly understood."[14] Third, the work probably sounded awkward to a conservative musician such as Rubinstein.[14] While the introduction in the "wrong" key of D flat (for a composition supposed to be written in B flat minor) may have taken Rubinstein aback, Warrrack explains, he may have been "precipitate in condemning the work on this account or for the formal structure of all that follows."[14]

[edit] Bülow
Brown writes that it is not known why Tchaikovsky next approached German pianist Hans von Bülow to premiere the work,[8] although the composer had heard Bülow play in Moscow earlier in 1874 and had been taken with the pianist's combination of intellect and passion, and the pianist was likewise an admirer of Tchaikovsky's music.[15] Bülow was preparing to go on a tour of America. This meant that the concerto would be premiered half a world away from Moscow. Brown suggests that Rubinstein's comments may have deeply shaken him about the concerto, though he did not change the work and finished orchestrating it the following month, and that his confidence in the piece may have been so shaken that he wanted the public to hear it in a place where he would not have to personally endure any humiliation if it did not fare well.[8] Tchaikovsky dedicated the work to Bülow, who described the work as "so original and noble" (although he later dropped the concerto from his repertoire).[16]

The first performance of the original version took place on October 25, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts, conducted by Benjamin Johnson Lang and with Bülow as soloist. Bülow had initially engaged a different conductor, but they quarrelled, and Lang was brought in at short notice.[17] Although the premiere was a resounding success, George Whitefield Chadwick, who was in the audience, recalled in a memoir years later: "They had not rehearsed much and the trombones got in wrong in the tutti in the middle of the first movement, whereupon Bülow sang out in a perfectly audible voice, The brass may go to hell".[18] Interestingly, Benjamin Johnson Lang himself appeared as soloist in a performance of the concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on February 20, 1885, under Leopold Damrosch.[17]

The Russian premiere took place on November 13, 1875[19] in Saint Petersburg, with the Russian pianist Gustav Kross and Czech conductor Eduard Nápravník. In Tchaikovsky's estimation, Kross reduced the work to "an atrocious cacophony".[20] The Moscow premiere took place on December 3, 1875, with Sergei Taneyev as soloist. The conductor was none other than Nikolai Rubinstein, the same man who had comprehensively criticised the work less than a year earlier.[21] Rubinstein had come to see its merits, and he played the solo part many times throughout Europe. He even insisted that Tchaikovsky entrust the premiere of his Second Piano Concerto to him, and would have done so had he had not died.[citation needed] At that time, Tchaikovsky considered rededicating the work to Taneyev, who had performed it splendidly, but ultimately the dedication went to von Bülow.
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[daedren]

This is simply breathtaking... Piano Concerto is one of Tchaikovsky's most beautiful productions!...

[Erik83474]

Greatest recording ever of this concerto...