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The greatest piano concerto ever written. The thematic intricacy of it is absolutely insane, nearly every measure a web of different motifs put together and developed in different ways, I’d go as far to say as that every single motif in the work was put together with another in nearly every combination possible. Medtner carries Bach’s torch when it comes to the undiluted genius construction of music. Everything is mathematically and intricately shaped, like a Greek temple or a gothic cathedral, yet that only adds to the emotional soul of the music, rather than takes away from it. The narrative behind the concerto runs deep within the work, and everything is shaped around it. To understand it better read about the poem Medtner based the first movement off of and then created his own continuation of it using the second and third movements.

7:21

Medtner 2 is one of the best concertos ever!!!!!

6:10 from this part, man this is sooooo good I rlly fucking love Medter

15:34

I am delighted by Esthers range of expression, tone and touch to the piano, so wonderful, thank you !!

I may have said this before, but I've loved this album ever since it was first released.

Hello, Busoni Piano Concerto (at 7:00).

Medtner being the best composer:

One of the best chamber pieces I have heard. Rubinstein is very underrated in my opinion.

Great!

I embrace his personal experience however, I sense that at times he both plays sometimes softly (during the virtuoso pieces) and also his increased speed during certain passages: Mr Tovey is also flawed in some of his playing but alround, he provides a better experience when compared to both Mr Medtner and Hamelin, they are small key...

I love this concerto, always wondered why it isn't played more often. thanks for posting.

One of THE greatest beginnings of any piano concerto in history! Medtner like so many other composers deserves his due. Dump Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms and program some of the forgotten ilk of great concertos lost to history.

Days of Medtner WILL COME. Scriabin left Chopin's heritage, but Medtner stayed there. (but little more chromatics) He is the one who fit to being called as 'Russian Chopin'. Medtner has revived later Chopin pieces'(such as Ballade 4, Polonaise Fantasie, Mazurkas) chromaticism and romanticism.

a perfect compromise between Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninoff

Absolutely amazing composition.

I can understand after this concerto why this guy is not famous…

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the theme at 24:19 is kind of reminscent of this moment from rachmaninoff piano sonata 2 th-cam.com/video/C_lOOYSzoBc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OZMmO9aILAdUZfcg&t=2354

Thank you so much for doing this amazing work!!! And beautiful discription as well.

I knew there will be Medtner just by the thumbnail! His concertos are so underrated! Piano concerto 3 has the greatest coda ever, but the 1st piano concerto has also many great reason to be on the list!

I've lost count of how many times I have listened to this. I rank it just below Rach 3 in my pantheon of favourite piano concerti. Paul Wee is out with a new recording of this that just dazzles.

This concert is - dare I say - perfect in any musical aspect I can think of, and very well may be, in my opinion, the most gorgeous and well written piano concerto there is. Also this video is amazing in analysing its clever motivic development

Pleasant.

Franck is not underrated

from 19:02 to the coda is one of the most colorfull, moving, and dramatic moments in music. There is so many themes , emotions, changes and moods, but it's still so linked, connected, related and it has clear climaxes and clear direction!

One of the best intepretations of this hidden gem! Imo, Medtner's piano concertos are the peak of it's genre!

some passages of the 1st movement remind me of Chopin‘s 2nd piano concerto in Fm

At 13:00 there is also the cross motif from theme B1 appearing in the cellos and bass voice of the piano, integrated on the overall A1 line. Such insanely rich polyphony, right?!

19:34

Really emotional interpretation, one of my favourites!

2nd mov.

Medtner's 3rd piano concerto is my most favourite concerto ever!

Very great and usefull analysis of this masterpiece! One of the most beautifull piano concerts ever, I love Medtner's creativity in thematic work!

I really need to dive deeper into Medtner's work

One movement in, already love this

The way he plays this is a miracle. You can tell he’s been through a lot in life and it shows in his profound playing. Tozer can do anything on the piano. Love it.

Tozer was such an amazing pianist, and his Medtner interpretations are generally of the highest quality. However, to me this performance seems too rushed, especially when compared to Medtner's slower tempo, or Mejoueva's masterful rubato. Fun fact: In his notes to this piece, Medtner specified a duration of 4 minutes and 20 seconds. His recording of the work matches that almost exactly, as does Mejoueva's (at least in one of her live recordings).

Elgar and Smetana underrated? Who by? Certainly not me, or many others.

Beautiful, but a bit repetitive

My opinion on this piano work, it is the most sublime melody. If you don't feel it, then you don't deserve to be called an artist musician, you are just noise

25:09 what was that? A trill? Can some one tell and wich note

Now I know how to do CPR.

How do you use this rhythm for CPR? Its all over the place.

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24:13

The Anton Rubinstein 4th Piano Concerto is supposed to be extremely difficult, also but this one sounds worse. However, the Rubinstein is a great piece of music, IMO. This one by Henselt is pretty mediocre musically speaking. Just my opinion, FWIW.

End of Kapustin's 5th concerto is really good as well.

Hamelin's recording on Hyperion is soooooo much better.