Mozart Piano Concerto 17, Dezsö Ránki, Piano - mvt 1, part 1

Dezsö Ránki (Steinway piano w/o lid)
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto In G Major, K.453 No.17 [32.12 total time]

first movement, part one

part two of the first movement is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9KuDgZYtY

Recorded at the Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, 15 November 1990

This is the fourth of six piano concertos Mozart composed in 1784. He hadn't composed any for two years, but did do more symphonies--in fact, all of his symphonies were done by 1784, except the last four.

bio on Dezsö Ránki from the Budapest Festival Orchestra website:

Dezsõ Ránki was born in Budapest in 1951, studied under Pál Kadosa, and rose to prominence in the early 70s as one of his generation's most outstanding pianists. His first international success was first prize in the Zwickau Schumann Piano Competition. He regularly performs in most European countries, in North and South America and in Japan. He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Orchestre National in Paris, the Tokyo NHK and several renowned conductors, such as Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Mazel, Zubin Mehta and Iván Fischer. Contemporary music is also very important in his life as an artist, in the last two decades he has given 10-15 concerts annually with his wife, Edit Klukon, interpreting pieces written for piano for four-hands. He has often played with the Budapest Festival Orchestra - Bartók's second piano concerto in Copenhagen in 1998, Liszt's three piano concertos in Belgium, Germany and France in 1999, Mozart's Concerto K.488 at several German festivals in the summer of 2001. In January of 2002 he performed Schumann's Piano Concerto with the BFO in Italy.

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[thelonious76]

@wudzah ;) thx sir Antonio.

[wudzah]

Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you...

[OmgLoLw2gLuvUidkROFL]

He's very silky smooth in both playing and movement...

[Byron10301]

@1Thompsonmusic No sir, YOU are the youtuber. I agreed with you, you disagree with the one who agrees with you - that makes you a ... what? YOUTUBER!

[1Thompsonmusic]

@Byron10301

Do you realise how irritating that paragraph makes you seem? Typical youtuber. Grow some hairs on yer chest. Be a fucking man, not a spoilt little brat the rest of your life.

[Byron10301]

@1Thompsonmusic I agree, practice makes a good pianist not his "artistic supernatural talent enabling him to understand the SOUL of music" ... Whether we prefer someone's style is the same thing as preferring vanilla or chocolate ice cream - as long as the pianist has practised enough and plays well, style is just a personal taste thing. No magic, just practice (by analogy, good ice cream is good ice cream, now if you hate Vanilla then you get the another flavour!)

[1Thompsonmusic]

@TheColin60

All this 'artist' talk is just an excuse used for not practicing enough.

[citrine615]

@TheColin60

Wonderfully put! In fact, I'd extend your comment to any kind of great human achievement. I believe that great works - musical, scientific, literary, etc. - need to be approached with a sense of awe and respect.

[TheColin60]

Ranki is indeed more than a pianist, he is an artist of the highest calibre. There are no histrionics, only the finest detail of the music. Whether it be the Beethoven 'Waldstein', Schumann's C major 'Fantasie' or the Stravinsky 'Petrushka' Ranki always delivers a performance that goes to the very soul of the music.

[artygunnar]

youtube.com/watch?v=lBc3JxFMcZ­k