Busoni, Piano Concerto in C Major Op. 39
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- Marc-André Hamelin piano. Sibelius Hall, Lahti - 31st March 2001.
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I Prologo e Introito 0:52
II Pezzo giocoso 16:18
III Pezzo serioso 25:14
IV All'Italiana 46:08
V Cantico 57:47
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The Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 (BV 247), by Ferruccio Busoni, is one of the largest works ever written in this genre. The concerto lasts around 70 minutes and is in five movements; in the final movement a male chorus sings words from the final scene of the verse drama Aladdin by Adam Oehlenschläger, who also wrote the words of one of the Danish national anthems.
The first performance of the concerto took place in the Beethoven-Saal, Berlin, Germany, on November 10, 1904, at one of Busoni's own concerts of modern music. Busoni was the soloist, with Karl Muck conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Choir of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche). The reviews were decidedly mixed, some being filled with outright hostility or derision. The century following its premiere has seen relatively few performances, owing to the large orchestration, complex musical texture, the use of a male chorus, and the staggering demands put on the soloist.
It seems to have been Beethoven who first included a chorus in a concerted work with piano and orchestra, in his Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, of 1808, since then only a handful of works have been scored for similar forces, including Daniel Steibelt's Piano Concerto No. 8 (first performed March 16, 1820, in Saint Petersburg) and the Piano Concerto No. 6, Op. 192 (1858) by Henri Herz which also have a choral finale.
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I. Prologo e Introito 0:52
II. Pezzo giocoso 16:18
III. Pezzo serioso 25:14
IV. All'Italiana 46:08
V. Cantico 57:46
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@@ruthsalgado6775 hello, didn't expect to see you here!
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Riascolto con piacere e tutte le volte vien fuori aspetti molto interessante sia dalla parte pianistica che orchestrale.Il pianista è formidabile,esecuzione magistrale anche dalla parte orchestrale!
50:58 - Hamelin is both the solo pianist and the tuba player - very impressive!
Indeed
Yes
Bruhh 😂😂
Yeah, he happens to have an identical twin who happens to play tuba in this orchestra... case solved, my dear Watson!
Loll
Even Marc-Andre Hamelin can't make this piece look easy.
From 53:10 to 53:25 he looks like he's about to explode. I can physically feel his pain.
@@calebhu6383 i think my Symphony 9 transcription has difficulty as same as this.
@@franzliszt4883 Liszt! Glad to have you back mate.
Not a single pianist on Earth's technique comes even close in this piece. Everyone is struggling through (rightfully so). For Hamelin, it's just business as usual.
Listening to Busoni is like indulging in a musical pig-out. Sometimes you're just in the mood for music that re-arranges your soul with impolite but pure unadulterated power.
"...a musical pig-out."...well there is definitely something pig-like about it!
Yes. After listening to it all you feel like you’ve been porked.
One of the finest pianist to ever walk this earth, period.
Unquestionably!
Indeed!
Es una aparición tantos años interprtando sus estudios. Que gusto !!!!🏆🇮🇷🥇📕
hey, there, whoever can perform this is in an exalted league. read the review today in LA Times. Fluxus, Harry Partch, John Cage, Milhaud dozens of names relating to Busoni.
what a Giant!!!!! DG
Sure. other honorable mentions could be Katsaris and Argerich
This concerto is really impressive. The more I listen to it, the more I love it.
I find it woefully amusing that what is typically considered the easiest/simplest key (C major) has given birth to what is quite possibly the grandest and most difficult piano concerto ever performed.
You are absolutely right!!!
Lol I find it one of the most difficult when it comes to fast octaves
@@scriabinismydog2439 Look up Alexei Grynyuk.
@@Santosificationable Yes I know him. He left me speechless
U know that the piece changes keys and is a bit atonal in several places..........so technically, the whole piece is not in C major.
The most dramatic soloist's entrance of any piano concerto ever. And one of the best concertos ever, period.
That's for sure!
Amen.
Absolutely. After hearing this rendition, nobody comes close lol.
Indeed.
@@stefanbernhard2710 ogdons
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Busoni is one of the greatest composers of the human history and this sublime concerto is an absolute masterpiece.
Greatest is Rossini or Prokofiev
Umm okay, but what about others?
@@babygirl4169 You just behave yerself Baby Girl!😆👍
@@chezbe Why?
@@babygirl4169 we aren't talking about others. We're talking about Busoni 😊
5:16 One of the greatest piano entrances ever, in my opinion! This is up there with the piano's entrance in Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Just unabashedly, unapologetically grand!!! 😍😍
Without doubts the most extraordinary and ambitious piano concerto ever written. Too much grandiose even for it's own genre.
Starting from 53:10 to 53:25 - 15 seconds of madness! What a challenge to human speed limit.... I am always stunned by watching this again, again and again....
I love Hamelin, I love Busoni!!
I think this is the kind of stuff that Sorabji was heavily influenced by. He throws insane passages like that all around his works.
I've never seen a passage like this in Sorabji's music.. Actually, fast octave passages are not a very common thing in his music
What is your point here? Chopin etudes and a 15 second spasm of octaves are two completely different subject matters.
You're telling me you watched that thinking, "pooh, Chopin etudes are more difficult," with no thought given to the tremendous speed, strength, and endurance required for a mere 15 seconds of playing?
Chopin etudes are more difficult in other ways but in what way are they relevant? Nobody claimed that this section was impossible.
Painful!!
@@infundomaris what did you just said?
fAsT oCtAvEs?
And chopin etudes are harder?!
Gran concerto-sinfonia originale per architettura, virtuosismo, corale, possente, drammatico e sublime. Busoni un genio. Ed eccellenti interpreti tutti.
One of the most underrated concerti out there.
Amen.
I'll gladly second this.
AMEN!!!
To be fair, there's maybe 5-10 pianists in the world that could pull this off
@@jeanlobrot I would LOVE to hear Argerich play this. I wonder of she still learns new repertoire
I can't believe this was broadcast on MTV3. They would never do that today.
Seriously? That's awesome.
I am well stricken in years and yet I have only discovered this piece today. It proves there is always something new to experience in life. Blessings and peace to everyone of you
I hope you are still enjoying this piece, my friend.
Me too. Better late than…
one life is not sufficient for studying this composition
y de memoria !!!!
It seemed sufficient for Hamelin.
elgatosucio SIIIII 🙌
I can't imagine the amount of practice it would take to learn this piece. And to play a 70-minutes piece from memory!
About 50 years or so. Ogdon did it, but this sounds better; I managed to sit through the whole thing in one go. You need a super memory. Let us not forget the magnificent piano technician who prepared this piano.
You don't need a super memory, because concert pianists have literally over a days worth of repertoire in their heads!
My piano teacher, Isador Epstein, ninety-one when I went to him for lessons back in the '70's, had studied under Busoni. He put me straight onto Czerny studies.
59:45 absolutely superb...
Enthusiastic audience response from deadpan fans..deserved a standing ovation!!
Gracias por Bussoni. 💕🎶🇮🇷México.
How can the audience keep from leaping to its feet after such a magnificent performance of such an astoundingly brilliant work of art? Takes my breath away every time.
After 70 minutes, they really had to pee, so they didn't want to prolong the applause or move their bodies any more than necessary!
Because they are Finns! Nordic peoples are not given to showy behaviour and the audience will have been aware that the occasion was being filmed, possibly for video release.
@@stephenhall3515 I second that... and moreover .. it is sooo frick'n cold in Finland most of the time, plus if it is in the winter, it never gets light... so all in all, the public may just be stuck in the hibernation cycle, and applauding like they did! is all they can muster. Just trying to defend them, lol!
The most monumental piano concerto ever composed. I see no other work come close to this one!
Ever listened to Brahms 1 (+2), Rachmaninov 2+3, Tchaikovsky 1+2 etc?
@@Stargalaxy21Imo Busoni concerto is better than all those concerti you mentioned combined together. It’s just so great.
@@ladivinafanaticbetter than RACH 3?!?! Ridiculous!
Nothing better than Rach 4
Except maybe Prokofiev 1
Or ravel in g
Or .....
Bortkiewicz concerto 1
Or
Mozkowski
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Tchaikovsky
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@@epicaunleashed8764 "Better" is very subjective. I was talking about it being the most monumental piano concerto, I think that's just an objective statement.
Not my favorite piano concerto, though. :)
Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner and Alkan, and into the 20rh century with Busoni, Sorabji, Alistair Hinton and others. Huge structures.
So proud of my fellow Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin for tackling and superb playing of this lengthy and complex concerto by Busoni. Nothing is left out of this work -- the choir in the 5th movement adds a lot of emotion to the composition. No mention is made of the excellent orchestra and conductor. Do I presume it's the Lahti Symphony Orchestra? Sibelius Hall opened in 2000; one year before this performance.
I don't understand all the negativity regarding either Busoni or this great Concerto that conitinually shows creative invention, oh well.
Most casual listeners aren't prepared to deal with such a large, expansive, complex work with so many dimensions. The piano part is ferociously difficult, but so are many other concertos. This is a masterpiece in the first degree.
@@jamesdomine its s favourite of mine. Im a professionally trained organist and i csn enjoy it
some reasons why i dislike this concerto is because most of the concerto sounds like a build up to nowhere, most of the piano part is completely useless and the chorale at the end adds absolutely nothing to the piece
There can be no negativity. This is a brilliant piece, a perfect display of busonis pianistical overwhelmingness
Agreed. It has a cult following at least.
By looking at the comments i am very pleased to know that i am not the only that thinks that this is the best piano concerto ever written!
Me too. I don't know what the others are hearing. Quite possibly the most generous piece of music ever composed, a miracle of integration of diverse musical ideas.
No, that would be the Scriabin concerto, as was made clear enough by Boulez/Ugorski.
For me, The Majestic Tchaikovsky's one, but this one also sounds great to my ear, ngl
@@syrinx9196 thats not obhective at all also boulez has no power to determine an absolute best concerto they're different and art is subjective
Definitely criminally underrated. Are people deaf? A mainstream pianist needs to tackle this one!
It's a shame the recording quality isn't very good. Hamelin was probably shaking the walls of Sibelius Hall with that thundering entrance. A true grand master of the piano.
Also, I can see why this piece isn't popular - it has a few great parts, but the whole thing is so unbelievably difficult for both orchestra and pianist, and all that without very many melodic rewards (which are plentiful in, e.g., Rachmaninov's concerti).
I still love this recording though.
A masterpiece. Seriously worthy of consideration in top 5 piano concertos along with Beethoven 4 and 5, Rach 3, Brahms 2.
Best listened to looking up at stars in a clear night sky; the waves of invention and emotion here should be sent across the universe as a representation of humanity.
What dumb, illiterate choices for the top spots -- the ridiculous products that are Beethoven's concerti should be among the greatest ever? Luckily music has much better to offer to the ear
I would also add Scriabin Concerto to your list and Medtner 3 too
Yes, it's so much better than it sounds!
Moszkowski concerto in e major
il n'y a pas de mot pour qualifier ce pianiste, juste incroyable.
I can listen to Hamelin all day, all week, all month - forever!
The final coda starting at 1:07:40 to the end of the concerto was so flawlessly executed - I don't know if I've seen such perfection and fearlessness in an ending, let alone to something as massive as this. I couldn't help but feel after watching this video for the first time that life is all downhill from here...I can only imagine how it is for those who were there live.
I can't imagine someone not having the stamina to watch this whole thing in one sitting - I can't stop watching!
It is rather addictive. It goes by in a breeze
1:07:40
I believe Andre Marc Hamelin is as great a pianist as Gilels and possibly even Richter.His vivid imagination, transcendental virtuosity and countless expressive insights place him in the category of Lhevinne, Hofmann, Rubinstein, Godowsky, Rosenthal, Gilels, Richter and even Horowitz, not to mention Serkin and Brendel.Possibly one of the greatest pianists ever.
Un des plus brillant pianiste de notre temps MA Hamelin , que j’ai eu la joie d’entendre en concert à Paris, dans le monumental concerto de piano de Busoni avec chœur découvert en concert au TCE il y a de nombreuses années.Superbe diabolique !
Merci pour votre appréciation.MAF
El mas grande virtuoso viviente sin dudas. Hamelin y argerich son los pianistas mas increibles que escuche
Hamelin plays with amazing disinvoltura but with equally amazing panache . The complex rhythms of this work make it one of the most challenging in all music are wonderfully performed. At the 33rd minute listen to the the almost Bachian discipline with which Busoni constructs one of the most riveting sequences in the history of music.............What I love most about this concerto is the perfect synthesis of Italianate show and Teutonic orderliness. It is a masterpiece of the first order
Probably one of the very best of the Hamelin performances, to be bracketed with that of Gunnar Johansen. Bravura passages come easily to Mr Hamelin's fingers.
Johansen recorded this?!
Busoni was next-level genius
4th movement cadenza begins at 55:43
Just 9 minutes into the concerto and I'm speechless. My first hearing of this concerto after I googled "the longest piano concerto". After hearing Rachmaninoff"s Piano Concerto #3.
I long hoped that a video of this would appear. The quality of this is pretty decent. Any recording of Marc-André Hamelin is very welcomed! Thank you very much for uploading this.
A tousend words will never be enough to express the greatness of this Fantastic Masterpiece !!! From now on I think all other piano concertos lays on the shadows of this one.
A great horn player from Busoni's time, Wendell Hoss, heard him play in concert and thought that Busoni was the greatest pianist of that era.
52:04 ITCHY&SCRATCHY SONG!
Agreed
Mr. Hamelin's virtuosity has grown so incredible that he no longer needs music in order to play the piano...!
Same with most soloists. Concertos tend to be played from memory
Absolutely astounding. I hope "mentor1954" is not mentoring anybody with regard to music or having an open mind to unfamiliar things. Structure abounds in this piece. Themes carry through the entire work. There are melodic and rhythmic motifs that tie the whole thing together. I assure you Mr. Hamelin would not be playing the entire thing securely by memory if there wasn't strong unity within its structure. He actually stands this piece on its ear and plays it like a large piece of chamber music. Astounding playing of a gargantuan piece.
This is quite good. This is the first time I've ever heard music by Busoni.
I have only just recently discovered this piece of music, and I have to be honest, I didn't really like it at first - it was too unrelaxed, too shifty, too unstable. But I've gotten used to it since then, and now I feel like I understand the work a lot more. I think that's all that it takes with this kind of music - the more you expose yourself to it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you can make out what it's trying to tell you. :)
You explain exactly what my comment tells
True. The essence of it is what counts
Well it certainly divides opinion, it's certainly virtuosic, novel & sublime in places.
Amazing piece of music. One of my favourite piano concertos
God.... How could he play this HUGE piece without rest and sheet music???
the music is driven by a colossal pathos, it just drives its way into one's mind
because he’s MAH the GOAT
pianista eccezionale,compositore,forse anche direttore :busoni era un artista completo,unico.
Mark Swed just reviewed this LA Times today. He's the greatest writer ever!!!! what an event for SF ! seems a little bombastic on first hearing for me. You gotta love Busoni vast influence on the culture.
A name almost forgotten today. He performed and conducted this at various times. Waiting to see Hamelin play the TUBA!>:? DG
I came here from Yahoo answers for 'longest piano concerto ever written.'
Not only the largest, but also the most beautiful piano concerto ever composed. Note how the piano acts more as a percussion than a melodic instrument. And Mr Hamelin has reached the top of the ladder. (I wonder whether this is the Polytechnic Choir? The brilliance makes me think it's them.)
Music begins around 0:50 .
I was honestly quite surprised when the voices came in. I'm glad I discovered this beautiful work.
I can hear somo Prokofiev and Liszt legacy in there. Even some chordal voicings that resemble Rachmaninof's style, but this concert was composed when Rach was not that famous yet. Beautifully written and performed.
Que gusto escucharlo. ❤Bach-Bussoni Lizst - Bussoni. La Campalnela. Y muchísimos más que aprendí en mis clases de piano🎶🎶🎶🇮🇷. Un genio enorme
Hard to believe...Astounding musical conception and perfomance!!
Un elegido por Dios. 🏆🇮🇷🙏❤️🔥
Por favor no le hagan Mix ...es un ser superior. ❤
I love this version more than the Hypérion CD one. It is... ballistc, wild, crazy! The Alla Italiana is absolutely bone-crushing. The CD sounds a bit plastic and cautious, as if someone restricts the sheer fury. After listening to this version, my limbs are jittering. Busoni is a monster.
Marvel splendor charming love wonderful Ferruccio Busoni.
I've got very bad taste because a) I love this and b) I especially love the 3rd movement. I used to have a recording of John Ogdon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing this under the baton of Daniel Revenaugh. It was quite superb. But so is this performance.
I no longer read distracting, annoying TH-cam comments, because I'm not fucking interested in them!! I CAME HERE FOR THE DAMN VIDEO!!!!
Quite a few years ago I was able to get a ticket to see/hear Evgeny Kissin in a Carnegie Hall recital. I waited backstage on a long line afterward to meet & greet him (and have him sign a recent CD). I asked him if he might ever perform the Busoni. He answered emphatically "NO!" (quite rudely I thought at the time). I wonder why?
He wouldn't have either the power or stamina to deliver such a piece properly, much as I like Kissin.
Probably for the same reason that so many other pianists have refused to play the Busoni, and it has nothing to do with an ability to play it. It just comes down to pure snobbery. As I was once told by an amazing, eminent pianist, "It's just not a good piece of music. Why should I waste my time with it when there's so much better repertoire to learn?"
If you get it, you get it. If you don't move onto something else. For me it is like nothing else in the world.
I wish to have this piano player in my progressive rock band.
Hamelin is the finest pianist in the world today
Bravo! Amazing! as Always! with Hamelin!
I've never heard of Busoni I read somewhere he matched Rubenstein and Liszt's in virtuosity and then i found this. This is a masterwork beyond beleif. pure magic and genius. I'm also gland hamelin is playing this.
A treat to behold. Thank you for posting this Mr. Italia !
53:59 Brilliant. I hate to say it but this even surpasses Liszt.
Interestingly that piece evokes a sort of proto-jazz feeling which was definitely based from Beethoven!
Actually, most amazingly difficult pieces aren't that difficult to memorise, seeing the amount of time one has to spend on each part! The hardest things to remember are things that don't take much work
the chorus part is so beautifully written. men's chorus is really powerful, and divine
Happy new year! Couldnt let the night pass without listening to this monumental concerto
This is like one of those dreams you have that's so much more vivid than any other dream you had before it
55:44 epic cadenza moment
Really outstanding thanks for uploading this!! Busoni was an incredible innovative composer! Amazing piano concerto played by one of the greatest pianist in the world!!
Gracias por el registro, muy bueno!!!
This is a wonderful work....I only needed to hear it once and I then purchased the vinyl version of John Ogdon doing this work...and that record has OUTSTANDING sonics to go with this ANGELIC music !
What an epic &
festive monster !!!
Bravo to all !!
53:01 literally went super saiyan
So marvellous to revive such glorious piano concertos that demand the most demanding virtuosity to execute, parts of this work leave me aghast as a piano player that seem almost staggering to comprehend how long it would require in months of preparatory practice to play many of the passages, it is very Lisztian in character to me and has those influences taking technicality to an extreme. To think it is C major also
Marc-Andre!!! Genius!!! Absolute deadpan during the whole concert =)
one of the greatest pieces for piano ever written!
Чтобы наполнить душу восторгом, надо обязательно прослушать этот великий концерт - весь, целиком!
I just adore this piece of music
❤❤❤❤Love! So exciting and OTT!
That looks exhausting for the pianist, conductor, orchestra, choir (!), and audience. And Marc-André Hamelin seems to have all 70 minutes memorized. And he barely breaks a sweat. I don't think I'd ever have the stamina to watch all of this, but I'm glad you posted it.
The All'Italiana is filled with jest and, well, culture!
Unreal!!! So wonderful.
Con este Concierto, se cierra la Temporada 2015-2016 de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga los próximos días 17 y 18 de junio. Dirige nuestro director titular, Manuel Hernández Silva. Piano, Kun Woo Paik y la Coral Cármina Nova (coro masculino) que dirige, Diego González
Gran director y orquesta con Bussoni. ♥️
Impresionante!!
This performance deserves more than 240p
Trueeee
My mom: multi-tasking isn't gonna get you anywhere.
Hamelin: 50:57
copeed
copeed
copeed
A Great Danish poet drafted a Persian story, then A Great Italian Composer polished it in German. That is the all-male Chorus at the end. I guess if Beethoven listened to it, it will make him jealous.1:00:10
Not quite jealous but instead, he would be proud of the younger generation's compositions
Perhaps even more difficult than Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No.3.
This blows Rachmaninoff completely out of the water
Busoni's piano concerto is almost certainly the most difficult piano concerto ever performed, and probably the most difficult piano work up to Sorabji's time. The only Romantic piece that I could imagine matching this in sheer scale and difficulty is Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano (which Hamelin also does an admirable job with). Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven's Symphonies 9 and 7 also do come rather close, as does his transcription of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
As difficult as Rachmaninov and Prokofiev's concertos are, recordings of them are a dime a dozen. Every prodigy and rising virtuoso learns them because they are standard repertoire for competitions. Legends like Ashkenazy, Rubinstein, and Horowitz are the pillars of the piano but none of them had the sheer technique required for Busoni and similar works. Nobody but the transcendental giants can triumph through Alkan and Busoni, and hardly anyone at all plays the Liszt transcriptions.
@@calebhu6383 Also Godowsky-Chopin Etudes are one that level (if you consider playing them all in one sitting) and Liszt S. 137 Douze Grandes Etudes and the S. 140 Paganini Etudes.
@@scriabinismydog2439 Agreed. There are also the Scriabin sonatas, of course.
@@calebhu6383 I love Scriabin's work but I don't think it surpasses Liszt's (purely technically speaking, in terms of Musicality Scriabin is far superior to anyone else)