Amy Beach - Piano Concerto

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    Amy Beach (1867-1944)
    Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 45 (1899)
    I. Allegro moderato [0:00]
    II. Scherzo (Perpetuum mobile). Vivace [19:27] -
    III. Largo [25:20] -
    IV. Allegro con scioltezza [30:08]
    Audio from: • Amy Beach Piano Concer...
    Score from: imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto...)
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  • @SPscorevideos
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  • @jorgefraile218
    @jorgefraile218 Před 3 lety +39

    Human tear tests: 2:56, 5:40, 6:32, 8:52, 12:16, 12:50, 13:38, 14:47, 17:23, 21:32, 23:25, 24:18, 31:32, 35:15, 35:51

  • @housingwiz
    @housingwiz Před 4 lety +82

    Unbelievably beautiful concerto. Very well played with the right feelings. Sadly, it is completely ignored by the masses who only know Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; so the top orchestras and pianists pass it up for live performances.

    • @SPscorevideos
      @SPscorevideos  Před 4 lety +24

      As you probably already noticed, I committed to rediscover these forgotten works by forgotten composers and share them, just next to the most known and mainstream masterworks. :)

    • @housingwiz
      @housingwiz Před 3 lety +5

      @@SPscorevideos Keep up the great work!

    • @laurencesherwood9872
      @laurencesherwood9872 Před 3 lety +5

      Although I cherish the tradition of “Western classical music”, I am not a sophisticated listener. Nonetheless, as delightful a work as this is, it is hard for me to put this in the same class as the piano concertos of LvB or Brahams.

    • @brianknapp8645
      @brianknapp8645 Před 2 lety +7

      @@laurencesherwood9872 When I hear this concerto the style I think of is that of Rachmaninoff But guess what! Amy Beach was very unlikely to be familiar with Rachmaninoff's first piano concerto since it was composed only a couple of years before this one and Rachmaninoff was barely out of the conservatory in Russia. So Amy Beach and Rachmaninoff both very much captured the spirit of the times with their respective piano concertos. Sure I agree with similarities to other concertos such as Brahms and Schumann, BUT there is plenty of originality hear which show's Amy Beach's great genius. This is most certainly the best romantic piano concerto composed by an American. Macdowell's second piano concerto is the only one that I know of that is even close to as good.

    • @e5s6t7e6
      @e5s6t7e6 Před 6 měsíci

      It's Nice but not in the same level to Brahms piano concertos or Rachmaninoff or Beethoven. That is clear.

  • @jorgefraile218
    @jorgefraile218 Před 3 lety +17

    I cried listening to this, never heard something so beautiful

  • @norwalltino
    @norwalltino Před 3 lety +15

    How superb, how elegant, how enlightening, especially the second movement, so life encouraging, makes my Sunday morning a celebration time

  • @paulpadillo4591
    @paulpadillo4591 Před 2 lety +18

    I always forget about Amy Beach whose music is spoken of more than performed. Then I hear her and keep asking, as I have for most of my life: WHY is this (meaning her entire output) not better known, more appreciated? I long to hear this concerto performed live one of these days.

  • @helemusic8008
    @helemusic8008 Před 3 lety +30

    I have just found a new favourite composer and I am honestly mesmerised...as a young composer myself I am just incredibly surprised by her works and how she is not more well-known and/or studied.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 3 lety +1

      Hele Music -- True...and...IMAGINE....a LADY....writing such beautiful music.....Outstanding!

    • @laurencesherwood9872
      @laurencesherwood9872 Před 3 lety

      I would be interested in what you find remarkable in her music. I do not have a sense that she broke in any significant way with the musical tradition in which she was raised, a factor that is often included when considering composers’ reputations.
      Best wishes with your aspirations!

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 3 lety +3

      @@laurencesherwood9872 -- True...but...did Rakhmaninov smash icons? Glière? Even so....Remarkable!....although we can't all be Prokofiev....or …Mussorgsky.....

    • @Nogah100
      @Nogah100 Před 2 lety

      @@steveegallo3384 I appreciate you cynical response to Mr. Hele

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 2 lety

      @@Nogah100 -- Cynical...maybe. But Arch...yes! Greetings from San Agustinillo, Oaxaca

  • @thenameisgsarci
    @thenameisgsarci Před 4 lety +25

    Whoo! Thanks for bringing this back up.

    • @SPscorevideos
      @SPscorevideos  Před 4 lety

      "Back up"? Was already on CZcams in the past? I don't remember, but I decided to do this because I was surprised I couldn't find it some weeks ago.

    • @thenameisgsarci
      @thenameisgsarci Před 4 lety

      Yes, it was on my channel, but was struck down.

    • @SPscorevideos
      @SPscorevideos  Před 4 lety +4

      @@thenameisgsarci Oh, I didn't remember! This videos should be safe, it's using a recording which has been on CZcams for 4 years now.

    • @thenameisgsarci
      @thenameisgsarci Před 4 lety +4

      Glad to see.

  • @barbarahofmann5688
    @barbarahofmann5688 Před 3 lety +5

    Wundervolle Musik einer Komponistin-hervorragend interpretiert. Es ist toll, dass man nicht nur mithören sondern auch mitlesen kann. Vielen Dank für dieses wunderschöne Musikerlebnis.

  • @notmyworld44
    @notmyworld44 Před 3 měsíci

    After hearing this piece for the first time this evening, I'm sure I will be whistling the wonderful tunes from it all day tomorrow.

  • @BenjiOrthopedic
    @BenjiOrthopedic Před rokem +6

    Mrs. Beach and Ethel Smyth were the two dames of classical music. I always found it hilarious that Beach wrote "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach" on all/most of her scores. She was definitely going against the grain with all of her work - women were NOT supposed to do more than play an instrument in those days. They also weren't invited to audition for any symphony orchestras. If they got to play a concerto with an orchestra, they were often lucky. Women had to really fight hard for many years in the classical world. Even Menuhin was as sexist as they came, or maybe just totally jealous. He said, and I quote, "a woman has no business playing a violin, she should be at home tending the fields and gardens." I'm thinking of Maud Powell and how her husband drove her around the US to give concerts in various cities in a big old town car. She was one of the pioneers.

    • @clavichord
      @clavichord Před 10 měsíci

      So, in 2023 AD it is apparently not possible for people like you to view the composer and the concerto, other than through the optic of gender? Isn't judging a person by their gender, in fact .... sexist? Are you so insecure about your own values that you need to seek constant valediction by seeking fault in others from another time and culture?

    • @dario8220
      @dario8220 Před 5 měsíci

      based ethel smyth

  • @yandrak6134
    @yandrak6134 Před 21 dnem

    Very Moszkowski-esque! Beautiful piano concerto, fully romantical

  • @cmrmusic4998
    @cmrmusic4998 Před rokem +3

    This concerto ends with a very American-sounding plagal-ish ii6 - I cadence, unless you count the scale degree 5 played by the timpani as an implied dominant harmony

  • @rainerlanglotz3134
    @rainerlanglotz3134 Před 3 lety +20

    Hearing this the first time I would say: Amy Beach was a composer of great talent, know how and last not least charme. The concert starts in a late romantic idiom resembling Tschaikovsky. The last movement is clearly influenced by Chopin. Altogether well crafted concert, yet no big surprises. Given the deplorable status of women around 1900 Amy Beach deserves to be remembered as excepional.

    • @Nogah100
      @Nogah100 Před 2 lety

      You can write this in greater condescension? Amy Beach, no doubt at all, depends on your judgement. Myself, I cannot wait for your judgements of women artists.

  • @snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454

    Thanks for uploading!

  • @CanGrande19
    @CanGrande19 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This beautiful Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 45 by Amy Beach, was dedicated by the composer to the great Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, whom Amy Beach greatly admired, both were admirable women in her time and great friends of hers.

  • @idkheheidk1480
    @idkheheidk1480 Před 3 lety +6

    The beginning reminds me of Dvorak symphony 9 and Grieg piano concerto.

    • @2906nico
      @2906nico Před 3 lety +4

      But without the tunes.

  • @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous

    Magnifique, un ravissement à faire connaitre!

  • @charleshagelgans6727
    @charleshagelgans6727 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you for providing the score.

  • @fredericchopin7538
    @fredericchopin7538 Před 2 lety +1

    Magnificent!

  • @Nogah100
    @Nogah100 Před 2 lety +2

    Amy Beach. My love.

  • @user-mo5sh8zh4d
    @user-mo5sh8zh4d Před 5 měsíci

    Прекрасное произведение! Спасибо!

  • @jacobtapianieto9655
    @jacobtapianieto9655 Před 4 lety +5

    Wonderful concerto!! Au pair with the well known concerti in the repertoire.

  • @mingshuxie4959
    @mingshuxie4959 Před rokem +1

    This is too good.

  • @jackvanderheijden375
    @jackvanderheijden375 Před 2 měsíci

    1000000 x dankjewel❤❤

  • @pianistyoungsunchoi7604
    @pianistyoungsunchoi7604 Před 2 lety +12

    1st movement
    orchestral introduction 0:00
    2nd theme 5:34 (op. 1 no. 3)
    2nd movement
    Piano entrance 19:40 (op. 2 no. 3)
    4th movement 30:08 (op. 2 no. 1 beginning third)
    2nd theme 31:27

  • @SCRIABINIST
    @SCRIABINIST Před 6 měsíci +1

    Although I'm generally not particularly impressed or interested in Beach's works I do think this work in particular provides a strong argument that she was one of the greatest American composers and this concerto is on par with that of Gershwin's or Barber's.

  • @RichardASalisbury1
    @RichardASalisbury1 Před rokem +3

    Marvelous! In general I'm not a fan of music from the "romantic" period, but this is well done, interesting, and lively.

  • @calebhu6383
    @calebhu6383 Před 3 lety +7

    35:47

  • @jboushka
    @jboushka Před 2 lety +6

    The style reminds me of Brahms (the first movement seems inspired by the Brahms D Minor with its controlled violence). Why isn't this played more often? (Same question about D'Albert's #1, a teen piece that is a masterpiece, following Liszt).

    • @christianvennemann9008
      @christianvennemann9008 Před rokem

      Yeah, the counterpoint, the "music box" effect in the cadenza, and that ethereal part at 10:25 very much remind me of Brahms (especially a very similar moment in his 2nd piano concerto), but the big chords, strong bass, and colorful orchestration remind me of Rachmaninoff. Beach is a criminally underrated composer who deserves to be so much more well-known!

  • @laukunst
    @laukunst Před 8 měsíci +1

    Who's playing? Beautiful sound and clear technique!

    • @SPscorevideos
      @SPscorevideos  Před 8 měsíci +2

      As you can read opening the description: Joanne Polk, with the English Chamber Orchestra and Paul Goodwin

  • @singtatsucgc3247
    @singtatsucgc3247 Před 3 lety +4

    Was the reference to Dvorak meant to be saying “I am American”?

  • @serenezhang2774
    @serenezhang2774 Před 6 měsíci

    Amy beach❤❤❤

  • @Xyriak
    @Xyriak Před 9 měsíci +1

    2:56

    • @Xyriak
      @Xyriak Před 7 měsíci

      You're welcome

  • @piano25250
    @piano25250 Před 2 lety +1

    19:27

  • @nathanturczan
    @nathanturczan Před 3 lety +8

    Perpetuum mobile? Sounds like me always looking at my phone

    • @Nogah100
      @Nogah100 Před 2 lety

      Go on looking at your phone. You'll sure get something very deep and interesting from it.

  • @OW0974
    @OW0974 Před 5 měsíci

    You don't have the full score?

  • @tamaravalencia3509
    @tamaravalencia3509 Před rokem

    Pedro Sánchez

  • @clive7092
    @clive7092 Před rokem

    Er, I didn't little 19thC ladies were meant to be able to do this! Wow - just Wow.

  • @evanottervanger5394
    @evanottervanger5394 Před 2 lety +1

    31:25