Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
PIANO CONCERTO NO.1 IN B-FLAT MINOR, OP.23
Lang Lang (piano)
Chicago Symphony -- Daniel Barenboim
DG 2003
Great Booklet with lots of information.
From The Notes:
The Chicago Symphony played Tchaikovsky's B flat minor Concerto at its very first concert in 1891, two years before the composers death.
Nikolia Rubenstein's claim that Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto was unplayable is one of music history's most famously mistaken first impression.
After hearing the entire work, Rubenstein did not mince words, declaring the solo part was impossible to play and that the music itself was vulgar. When he suggested it needed to be completely recomposed, Tchaikovsky insisted he would not change a note.
Eventually it was played by Hans von Bulow in Boston in 1875, where it was a big hit. The rest is history.
Allegro non troppo e molto maestose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_0cr7CiCU
Andantino semplice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8pi8IvYhfU
Allegro con fuoco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2KRF1zbiU
Cheers
PIANO CONCERTO NO.1 IN B-FLAT MINOR, OP.23
Lang Lang (piano)
Chicago Symphony -- Daniel Barenboim
DG 2003
Great Booklet with lots of information.
From The Notes:
The Chicago Symphony played Tchaikovsky's B flat minor Concerto at its very first concert in 1891, two years before the composers death.
Nikolia Rubenstein's claim that Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto was unplayable is one of music history's most famously mistaken first impression.
After hearing the entire work, Rubenstein did not mince words, declaring the solo part was impossible to play and that the music itself was vulgar. When he suggested it needed to be completely recomposed, Tchaikovsky insisted he would not change a note.
Eventually it was played by Hans von Bulow in Boston in 1875, where it was a big hit. The rest is history.
Allegro non troppo e molto maestose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_0cr7CiCU
Andantino semplice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8pi8IvYhfU
Allegro con fuoco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2KRF1zbiU
Cheers