Warsaw Concerto from the film Dangerous Moonlight
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2017
- Composed by Richard Addinsell. Arranged & Conducted by Ron Goodwin. Piano Solo by Edward Rubach, from the Studio 2 Stereo Album, Legend Of The Glass Mountain.
All photographs taken on either the Sony HD 400 or Nikon P900. I own all of the images in this video. - Hudba
My Dad was an RAAF bomber pilot in WW2 flying with the famous "Dawn Patrol" Squadron 59 of RAF Coastal Command. Most of his missions involved attacking German convoys in the North Sea.
The aristocracy at the time often threw open their country mansions to Commonwealth and Empire aircrew who were between tours of duty......they considered it to be part of their contribution to the war effort. Dad was at a party one time, put on in one of these great baronial mansions and one of the airman in private life before the war was a concert pianist.
In the great hall where the party was held there was a magnificent Steinway Grand piano and this airman had been playing the piano for much of the night. He played a lot of pieces from American musicals....."Showboat" and the like, but as the evening wore on and the liquor flowed his playing got more serious....more classical.
Down at one end of the hall stood a group of Polish Airmen drinking.....Warsaw had not long fallen and burned with tremendous loss of life, and they had escaped to England to carry on the fight against the Nazis who had destroyed their city and their families. Suddenly the pianist launched into the Warsaw Concerto.
All across the Great Hall conversation ceased, hearts and breathing stopped in the momentous thrall of the moment. Europe burned, civilization teetered on the brink under the Nazi onslaught. Everyone there was aware of the part they played in this titanic struggle.....and none more so in this moment than the Polish airmen present.
As the last ringing, defiant notes of the concerto died, with tears flowing unchecked down their faces the Polish airmen raised their glasses and over and over shouted "Bravo! Bravo!" And everyone present joined in.
Dad remembered this as a very moving and poignant moment......a moment of defiance and hope and united purpose in the midst of those dark days. Today we enjoy this great, moving musical masterpiece for exactly that reason.....for its haunting theme and great musicality. But I believe it pays us to remember that once it was great for that.....and so much more.
What a beautiful and moving story! Thank you for sharing!
What a wonderfully uplifting story from some of Europe's darkest days! Thank you so much indeed.
Can't stop crying
Thank you for such a deeply moving and redolent appraisal.
Very moving. Many thanks. It must have been an amazing occasion that your dad experienced.
Never got t see the Movie Dangerous Moonlight.l would love t find the vidio t see the movie,but adore the music.lm from England,and remember this music,as my Dad was in World War 2.and this was his favorite song...
Love this music.from movie Dangerous Moonlight.
My very favorite
I was taken to see this filkm by my aunt & uncle, I forgot the film but never the music, it haunts me still.
Mum was in the WRAF during WWII, this was her and Dad's 'song', I can't count the number of times we watched the movie. Great music
Beautiful music which touches my heart.
Beautiful, the pianist is amaaaaazing
My first piece I'm serious music that I that I heard when I was about 13 years old and I've loved it and move by it ever since
I listened to my mum playing this beautiful music 😊
one of my all-time favorite compositions !!
Absolutly Beautiful.
Beautiful and sad
High in the heavens separated from the destruction below.
WOW, I THINK I BOUGHT THIS VINYL ALBUM IN THE 1960'S, IT MUST BE SOMEWHERE, I KEPT THEM ALL.
My very favorite music
What would I give to beable to play this.
enjoy the music composed and originally performed in Great Britainbut remember the duplicity of Soviet Russia who refused to support the Warsaw rising in 1944
TRUE. STALIN KNEW HE WOULD TAKE POLAND AFTER THE WAR, SO THE SMALLER THE LOCAL OPPOSITION, THE BETTER FOR HIM.