I heard this on a classical station while I was running errands for work. Sometimes the pricks don't even tell you who the artist is. I got back to work and the piece was still playing and it was the end of the day. I sprinted to the clock as fast as I could and sprinted back to my car and got back in time to get the name :). This will probably always be my favorite piano work.
Awesome, Ive experienced such a similar as you told. I dreamed awake when i was driving home today. Spotify “algoritm” introduced me to this trip. Ive to stopped at the river side road just to allow me take a screenshot from my iphone and searching for further info... and Ive fount this precious comments. My best whishes!!! from Uruguay, Southamerica Rio de la Plata Music is the true gold 💫♾
She is in a better place probably still playing the piano as we speak. It's still magic, it really never ends for someone even if they are not here anymore and just somewhere else were we cannot see them.
@@JosephFur Everyday I sit at the piano I bought her 40 years ago and I am inspired to play. Mind you I was a bassist. But her music was my inheritance. Life is indeed strange if you let yourself accept the emotion and connection that links your past to what will be. Perhaps you know what I mean in those words.
My heart soared high the first time I heard this beautiful piece.....when I was 6 yrs old ....i am now 62,and it has the same effect and feeling for me...wonderful composer...💙
I used to start every morning on the long bus ride to school with this piece, every single morning, half asleep and dreaming of such beautiful stories as the music played in my ears through the headphones. Many years later the piece with its magnificent highs and lows still reminds me of self-assured teenaged bravado softened by tragic, desperate heartbreak. Alternating between wistful and frantic and triumphant and broken, swelling with a powerful and dramatic emotionality. I can almost see the same stories play out, if I close my eyes. There is no music more beautiful than this, that ever was or will be.
As a norwegian I can't listen to this concerto without feeling very homesick. It's so beautiful it actually hurts sometimes, and it's like Grieg is using the notes like a painter would use his brush to paint the norwegian landscape. It is interesting to note that Grieg actually wrote parts of this concerto in Denmark during a visit at some friends place. He would sit in a small greenhouse that also had a piano and piece ideas together. It was premiered on april 3, 1869, but Grieg couldn't attend the performance because he had other engagements in Christiania (Oslo). The concert became all the rage and Grieg became incredibly popular in Europe as a result. Franz Liszt played through the concert at first glance, (reading directly from the notes), when Grieg visited him. Liszt adored it and became ecstatic about Griegs talent. It would have been so nice if he had completed his second concerto.
For me nationality means little to nothing. I feel like this music gives me a warm hug and makes me so happy. It gives me the same homesick feeling but not for the country that i am born in, witch again means very little to me, but for my true home where i was raised and where my parents live.
You're absolutely right. I mean, I love german, russian... all kinds of music, really. It doesn't matter. Music is the universal language. The warmest of hugs in this concerto is one of the melodic themes of the second movement ( 14:19 ). It cracks me up. It's like coming home to safety.
I can understand your feeling, and I was not born in Norway! But some of my ancestors were, I have been there, and saw Grieg's beautiful home in Bergen. Believe me, you should be extraordinarily proud of him and what your countrymen did during WWII. No wonder that Winston Churchill said, "if anyone wants to know why we are going to win this war, let him look to Norway!" What a fabulous country!
I played this in my provincial orchestra, and the soloist played with so much passion and feeling. The true beauty of the piece is lost by recording it. Amazing recording, but much better in person; with the right soloist.
I always become tearful whenever I hear this legendary classical piece of music. As it reminds me of when I was a young boy of 8, when I used to spend my weekends with my dear gran. This was my gran's favourite piece of music. My gran would always pretend to conduct this, while in her kitchen preparing Sunday dinner, while I was in the backroom next to her kitchen shelling garden peas. Thank you for adding this to CZcams.
There's an age-old principle in music called "leave them hungry." When you have a good part don't overplay it, that way people will come back to hear it again and again. Something pop artists willfully ignore, in stead they opt to sing the same line over and over until your head goes numb.
I love that classical music videos on youtube have some of the most international comment sections ever. Proof that music transcends borders and nationalities ! Cheers from France
I fell in love with a lovely blonde Norwegian girl, who fell in love with my best mate.....oh those melancholy interludes in the first movement still get me. 50 years ago now. Doesn't hurt now but it sure brings back memories. :)
This compelling Concerto...a favorite of mine for over fifty years. It's as though, "an outsider's view, fantasy and expression of 'love,' itself"--in both the emotional giving and receiving. The Concerto seems to contain an emotional expression of "truth," that is common to us all in our humanity. I love it. I remember Emil Gilel's fine rendition--somewhere, there in the old cobwebs of my memories
I could take or leave classical music until my dad bought a record of this gorgeous Grieg concerto for me-a page was turned. I played it over and over.
What a one-of-a-kind concerto. A lot of composers can make great works by beautifully developing a theme - but Grieg's ability to come up with themes and melodies so original and beautiful in themselves is just unbelievable... My heart will always belong to Beethoven for the emotion carried through his music, but Grieg's music has a very rare "spark" to it...
I've been looking 18 years for the 6 minutes of Adagio. It finally happened and true tears of joy from reliving that 20 year old's memories, here tonight in music
Волшебная ,поэтичная,красочная музыка концерта и замечательное исполнение солиста и оркестра подарили радость и удовольстаие.Выражаю сердечную благодарность за минуты счастья
The thing with Grieg is that that he wrote folk music. That means that those who had the tune were king. If that was the orchestra then the pianist had to accompany them no matter how spectacular his part was. Listening to this performance I would say that the balance is just about perfect.
Grieg ... Musicien et poète entre tous, nous a livré ce magnifique Concerto pour piano ... testament ultime de son art et de l'âme nordique qu'il a si bien su incarner !
thank you, thank you youtube, I work so hard all my life, as a Dr. to be able to sit down and listen to all the classic music we can tune wih CZcams is almost a magnificent gift
I enjoy the Grieg concerto most when played like this, with poetry, warmth and noble passion rather than as a virtuoso warhorse. The orchestral introduction to the Adagio must be one of the most beautiful in the entire genre.I am glad to hear the Finale played as a real Norwegian "Halling", not like a hell-for-leather "Grand Galop Brillant". This pianist's playing is so natural and unmannered.
The pianist could understand the fight and history between the music, all the sense of it, all the poetry. Norwegian, Finnish and Hungarian music are the most brave and the only ones that pass to us the poetry of the fight.
those three adjectives are spot on--the orchestra and pianist dust off this masterpiece and infuse it with great warmth....they let the music breathe....its like listening to it for the first time...
I highly recommend this recording for the soloist's superior interpretation of the piece. Every time I listen to this piece, I am taken to another world free of any problems. I have listened to this particular video more than 50 times.
Lovely performance fans, thank you sharing, now that you can date all Grieg lovers on-line you can organize a trip to his home place, exploring Grieg in his birth land, yeah, try to imagine what an unforgettable experience it might be, let the music inspire you fans, get in action, Covid immune savious of humankind deserve to celebrate & paaaarty fans, the music is just puuuurrfect
This majestic, magical, almost mystical concerto stands proud among any, a rising and falling tide of human emotion, awareness, endeavour, with sublime reward in so lyrical and passionate an account, appreciation, of life's worth, in the widest, wildest, strangest ways and forms, the deepest senses- quite beautifully done here.
wonderful tribute! and that is what it is...and I hadn't thought of the adjective 'mystical' but it most certainly is--part of it is human emotion other part nature emotion which makes this concerto unique...
Beautiful! This is the man who wrote the "incidental music" for Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt", which is how I first heard Grieg's music. A brilliant composer, truly deeply emotional music. It touches my heart.
The Adagio...when the cello softly pours in, then the clarinet floats high up top, then the french horn softly mourns, and finally a single piano note, that's when I just burst into tears every time.
I love this piece. And was really grooving on this version in particular. So sharp, so clear, crystalline perfection on the keys. Passionate, varied moods. And THEN I glanced back over to the video and saw the face materialize and thought, "Wait WHOOA, is THAT Dubravka Tomsic?! No wonder it's so good!" I only happened to know of her from some other '92ish "Classic Digital CD" of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" my uncle bought us as a Christmas present and which was among our first Compact Discs. It was one of those bargain dealies, but the sound was simply so moving and astonishing I could never get over it so I played that CD hundreds of times. And I'd later heard other performers do the piece and they sounded limpid, or muffled by comparison, like they weren't feeling it and swaying with it and slightly dancing dangerously outside the rigid confines of the time-signature the way Dubravka played with all these things so effortlessly. So that was what made me research the performer herself. ANYWAY, I got SO excited when I saw her face here that I yelled across the room to my wife and then set about composing this fan love-letter of a utubular post. THANKS for the upload.
Just a whisper, a faint farewell,forever lasting immortal memories & the sweet nostalgia this evokes. How it triumphs in a world frozen in its own darkness. BEAUTIFUL.
Oh dear, this is truly a master piece in the repertoires of classical music. I can't count how many times that I listened to this one since I was a little boy. I would say that I keep listening to this one, and I wish to say many Thanks to the Pianist and anyone in lovely Orchestra. Thank You. TKH.
This is by far the best rendition of Grieg's timeless piano concerto. I've listened to it no less than 30 times; this piece invokes true emotional gratification in me. Dubravka Tomsic plays the concerto better than any other pianist. Her tempo, expression, and musicality far surpass any other recording I've listened to. Take my word for it. Don't listen to any other recording; this is the one.
A moving piece of music. The second movement is painfully beautiful. Interesting fact: Canada's pianist and Bach specialist, Glenn Gould was Grieg's nephew.
My introduction to classical music was this beautiful work by Grieg. I have loved music ever since--I was 14 when I heard this for the first time; eighty years ago.
This is my favorite classical music piece by far. It is put together wonderfully, and it expresses so much emotion, it make me happy just listening to it. Well done Grieg
What a marvelous performance and recording. The sound is ravishing. I have always loved this masterpiece. The second movement, still to this day, is my favorite of the three; It still can move me to tears. Oh well.Lo!
Update: 20 Top Piano Concertos....in my opinion. ^_^ 1. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 2. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 3. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major 4. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" 5. Grieg's Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor 6. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 7. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 "Coronation" 8. Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 9. Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos 10. Bach's Piano/Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 "English Concerto" 11. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 12. Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 13. Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 14. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 15. Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 16. Chopin's Adante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 17. Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 18. Paderewski's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17 19. Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102 20. Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
+Jonathon Toni I would replace Mozart with Schumann and one of Saint Saens' (1,2,4,5 depending on my mood) and sorry Tchaikovsky i love your music but its a toss up between Rach's Rhapsody on Paganini and Scriabin for that particular slot.Otherwise i would be happy to die to that list.
This music is fabulous classical by a wonderful composer enjoyed by generation after generation, longevity of a musical form for years and years into the future
Thank you for putting this on. Greig must have been a lovely human being to have written this. My memories are of sitting under my father's piano as a child.
I love Griegs' music - this is the real norwegian, european value! Jeg elsker Griegs musikk - det er riktig norsk, europeisk verdi! Szeretem Grieg zenéjét - ez igazi norvég, európai érték!
One of the best concertos composed!!!!!! It is so emotional and it is like a story. I think people take for granted and don't search up the "ancient" foundations of music. I can't believe we forget some of our composers, such a Kalinnikov, Dobrinski, and I really hope we will forget Grieg!!!! I Thank God for this!!!!
This thrilling concerto is so different from others---the tonal structure, etc. It feels more outdoor than any other concerto--no surprise as Grieg's first inspiration was his beloved Norwegian country side which he loved to hike in. Its certainly a classic and in the 'arsenal' of any first class pianist along with the Beethoven., Rach, and Mozart
Melancholie und Leichtigkeit, schweres im Leichten, kein anderer Komponist, keine andere Symphonie erzeugt seit mehr als 25 Jahren ein ähnliches Gefühl in mir. Bis heute bin ich mir nicht klar darüber, ob es eine Spezifität einzigartiger Komposition oder die emotionale Fixierung eines musikalischen Werkes in einer bestimmten Lebensphase ist, die mich immer und immer wieder derart emotional einnimmt.
Always impressed with this masterpiece, and fortunately for most of the world Balkan strife is taking a back seat to this symphony orchestra. Win, win.
I heard this on a classical station while I was running errands for work. Sometimes the pricks don't even tell you who the artist is. I got back to work and the piece was still playing and it was the end of the day. I sprinted to the clock as fast as I could and sprinted back to my car and got back in time to get the name :). This will probably always be my favorite piano work.
Had me a good drink years later and listened again and wept.
I love your enthusiasm!💥
EDVARD GRIEG WAS AWESOME
MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER
Worth it....
Awesome, Ive experienced such a similar as you told.
I dreamed awake when i was driving home today. Spotify “algoritm” introduced me to this trip. Ive to stopped at the river side road just to allow me take a screenshot from my iphone and searching for further info... and Ive fount this precious comments.
My best whishes!!!
from Uruguay, Southamerica
Rio de la Plata
Music is the true gold
💫♾
My mother was a concert pianist. She played this all my life even when she was in care.
It never left her.
Magic for all time I think.
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what a blessing and a joy for you and her!
She is in a better place probably still playing the piano as we speak. It's still magic, it really never ends for someone even if they are not here anymore and just somewhere else were we cannot see them.
@@JosephFur Everyday I sit at the piano I bought her 40 years ago and I am inspired to play. Mind you I was a bassist. But her music was my inheritance. Life is indeed strange if you let yourself accept the emotion and connection that links your past to what will be. Perhaps you know what I mean in those words.
@@JosephFur yep. You are so right.
My heart soared high the first time I heard this beautiful piece.....when I was 6 yrs old ....i am now 62,and it has the same effect and feeling for me...wonderful composer...💙
God bless you. ❤
Grieg's music deserves more attention than usually gets.
I saw and loved the biopic about him SONG OF NORWAY. Watch it if you ever get the chance.
My name-brother, countryman and biggest idol. If i could have just ONE day with this master of music.. Just one!
The melodies do the talking..
Brilliant composer, a bridge to the romantic, post "beethovenian" era. His impact was obvious even on Rachmaninov's c minor, 2nd p. concerto.
So beautiful. Didn’t know Greig did this piece. So delightful! Bravo 👏
@@yp3424 I thought it was Schumann's influence there
R u from norway? I feel like every Grieg fan is brother in arms somehow
I used to start every morning on the long bus ride to school with this piece, every single morning, half asleep and dreaming of such beautiful stories as the music played in my ears through the headphones. Many years later the piece with its magnificent highs and lows still reminds me of self-assured teenaged bravado softened by tragic, desperate heartbreak. Alternating between wistful and frantic and triumphant and broken, swelling with a powerful and dramatic emotionality. I can almost see the same stories play out, if I close my eyes. There is no music more beautiful than this, that ever was or will be.
As a norwegian I can't listen to this concerto without feeling very homesick. It's so beautiful it actually hurts sometimes, and it's like Grieg is using the notes like a painter would use his brush to paint the norwegian landscape. It is interesting to note that Grieg actually wrote parts of this concerto in Denmark during a visit at some friends place. He would sit in a small greenhouse that also had a piano and piece ideas together. It was premiered on april 3, 1869, but Grieg couldn't attend the performance because he had other engagements in Christiania (Oslo). The concert became all the rage and Grieg became incredibly popular in Europe as a result. Franz Liszt played through the concert at first glance, (reading directly from the notes), when Grieg visited him. Liszt adored it and became ecstatic about Griegs talent. It would have been so nice if he had completed his second concerto.
For me nationality means little to nothing. I feel like this music gives me a warm hug and makes me so happy. It gives me the same homesick feeling but not for the country that i am born in, witch again means very little to me, but for my true home where i was raised and where my parents live.
You're absolutely right. I mean, I love german, russian... all kinds of music, really. It doesn't matter. Music is the universal language. The warmest of hugs in this concerto is one of the melodic themes of the second movement ( 14:19 ). It cracks me up. It's like coming home to safety.
I can understand your feeling, and I was not born in Norway! But some of my ancestors were, I have been there, and saw Grieg's beautiful home in Bergen. Believe me, you should be extraordinarily proud of him and what your countrymen did during WWII. No wonder that Winston Churchill said, "if anyone wants to know why we are going to win this war, let him look to Norway!" What a fabulous country!
windjammer
:)
I used to listen to the second movement while star gazing sitting near the ocean cliff. Good times, this piece brings back wholesome memories.
I played this in my provincial orchestra, and the soloist played with so much passion and feeling. The true beauty of the piece is lost by recording it. Amazing recording, but much better in person; with the right soloist.
I always become tearful whenever I hear this legendary classical piece of music. As it reminds me of when I was a young boy of 8, when I used to spend my weekends with my dear gran. This was my gran's favourite piece of music. My gran would always pretend to conduct this, while in her kitchen preparing Sunday dinner, while I was in the backroom next to her kitchen shelling garden peas. Thank you for adding this to CZcams.
A masterpiece indeed, but how I wish Grieg would have prolonged the finale; it's so good I can't get enough of it.
good point
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Yes, the finale is really good.
There's an age-old principle in music called "leave them hungry." When you have a good part don't overplay it, that way people will come back to hear it again and again. Something pop artists willfully ignore, in stead they opt to sing the same line over and over until your head goes numb.
Dol Lon good point but it's half an hour long
I love that classical music videos on youtube have some of the most international comment sections ever. Proof that music transcends borders and nationalities ! Cheers from France
One of the finest classical pieces.
This deserves 100 million views.
I played a shortened version of this when my Mom was my piano teacher. I can listen to this time and again.
I fell in love with a lovely blonde Norwegian girl, who fell in love with my best mate.....oh those melancholy interludes in the first movement still get me. 50 years ago now. Doesn't hurt now but it sure brings back memories. :)
Oh....I am so sorry, Billy. Happy that you got over it!
Look at her now and you will be cured.
i fell you bro hahahaha
Once upon a time. ... my best mate going after my girl sobered me up. Literally been sober 36 years now
This compelling Concerto...a favorite of mine for over fifty years. It's as though, "an outsider's view, fantasy and expression of 'love,' itself"--in both the emotional giving and receiving. The Concerto seems to contain an emotional expression of "truth," that is common to us all in our humanity. I love it. I remember Emil Gilel's fine rendition--somewhere, there in the old cobwebs of my memories
I could take or leave classical music until my dad bought a record of this gorgeous Grieg concerto for me-a page was turned. I played it over and over.
What a one-of-a-kind concerto. A lot of composers can make great works by beautifully developing a theme - but Grieg's ability to come up with themes and melodies so original and beautiful in themselves is just unbelievable... My heart will always belong to Beethoven for the emotion carried through his music, but Grieg's music has a very rare "spark" to it...
You speak the truth, Just Power and Beauty, My favorite. - JPGold out.
I've been looking 18 years for the 6 minutes of Adagio. It finally happened and true tears of joy from reliving that 20 year old's memories, here tonight in music
Tenía 7 años cuando escuché por primera vez este concierto, tengo 74 a aún me gusta, cada vez que lo escucho me emociona igual que aquella vez.
This masterpiece was written for his daughter. She passed when she was 1 year old and her name was Alexandra.
How tragic
Edward was a genius! ❤️
Proud to be a fellow norwegian❤️
I am proud to be a human, that can understand this kind of art. :)
Волшебная ,поэтичная,красочная музыка концерта и замечательное исполнение солиста и оркестра подарили радость и удовольстаие.Выражаю сердечную благодарность за минуты счастья
This piano concerto keeps music in the eternal fields of hope. A masterpiece
Listening to classical music after a stressful day of work while enjoying a glass of whine is the greatest thing ever!
YES! That, and walking your dog and appreciating all the curiosity and joy continuously emanating from their little bodies.
the greatest work in history of Norwegian classical music
Breathtakingly-almost painfully-beautiful. I cannot hear this and not be moved to tears.
The thing with Grieg is that that he wrote folk music. That means that those who had the tune were king. If that was the orchestra then the pianist had to accompany them no matter how spectacular his part was. Listening to this performance I would say that the balance is just about perfect.
One of the best compositions for piano
He's not the Albert Einstein of the music, Albert Einstein is the Edvard Grieg of the physics lol
I think Einstein was Edvard's love child. I wonder who the mother was, perhaps Madam Curie.
!. Paper, I think. And then, Bohr?
Nice picture.
Gramlich--einstein and what ... ? Oh. Mazurka.
Great way of putting it, its also equally true that Albert was an artist of Physics.
Edvard Grieg the most beautiful piano concert, I have been listening since I was5.
This is so poignantly beautiful, I admit I cry each time I hear this gorgeous piano music......thank you....
Good for you bro. I do too. A man's tears may be weighed in gold. Or something more precious.
Grieg ... Musicien et poète entre tous, nous a livré ce magnifique Concerto pour piano ... testament ultime de son art et de l'âme nordique qu'il a si bien su incarner !
A wonderful and most underrated pianist! I have a number of her CDs
thank you, thank you youtube, I work so hard all my life, as a Dr. to be able to sit down and listen to all the classic music we can tune wih CZcams is almost a magnificent gift
This piano concert is too much for my heart ♡
Eol S.B. open it
Your body is likely to malfunction if you open the heart.
Bis heute die beste Aufführung dieses Konzertes!
So many wonderful concertos written by the Masters, but this is the best.
I'm so glad I was a Hip-Hop head back in the Golden Era... It really taught me to appreciate music whatever the genre.
I enjoy the Grieg concerto most when played like this, with poetry, warmth and noble passion rather than as a virtuoso warhorse. The orchestral introduction to the Adagio must be one of the most beautiful in the entire genre.I am glad to hear the Finale played as a real Norwegian "Halling", not like a hell-for-leather "Grand Galop Brillant". This pianist's playing is so natural and unmannered.
The pianist could understand the fight and history between the music, all the sense of it, all the poetry. Norwegian, Finnish and Hungarian music are the most brave and the only ones that pass to us the poetry of the fight.
those three adjectives are spot on--the orchestra and pianist dust off this masterpiece and infuse it with great warmth....they let the music breathe....its like listening to it for the first time...
I fully agree, having heard this concerto many times. Superb!
About 10 minutes in I was sad because I thought it was over, but I was relieved when I saw the whole concerto is about half an hour long :)
I highly recommend this recording for the soloist's superior interpretation of the piece. Every time I listen to this piece, I am taken to another world free of any problems. I have listened to this particular video more than 50 times.
Lovely performance fans, thank you sharing, now that you can date all Grieg lovers on-line you can organize a trip to his home place, exploring Grieg in his birth land, yeah, try to imagine what an unforgettable experience it might be, let the music inspire you fans, get in action, Covid immune savious of humankind deserve to celebrate & paaaarty fans, the music is just puuuurrfect
This majestic, magical, almost mystical concerto stands proud among any, a rising and falling tide of human emotion, awareness, endeavour, with sublime reward in so lyrical and passionate an account, appreciation, of life's worth, in the widest, wildest, strangest ways and forms, the deepest senses- quite beautifully done here.
And beautifully written comment...
wonderful tribute! and that is what it is...and I hadn't thought of the adjective 'mystical' but it most certainly is--part of it is human emotion other part nature emotion which makes this concerto unique...
Wonderful description.
Beautiful! This is the man who wrote the "incidental music" for Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt", which is how I first heard Grieg's music. A brilliant composer, truly deeply emotional music. It touches my heart.
C'est avec raison l'un des concertos de piano les plus aimés et les plus joués.
The Adagio...when the cello softly pours in, then the clarinet floats high up top, then the french horn softly mourns, and finally a single piano note, that's when I just burst into tears every time.
It's an oboe but good piece
This is what I call a true work of art. Thanks, Grieg. *-*'
Ce B lang lang the love
lang lang the love by nigell Hess
This is the only thing more beautiful than the sound of a waterfall.
I love this piece. And was really grooving on this version in particular. So sharp, so clear, crystalline perfection on the keys. Passionate, varied moods. And THEN I glanced back over to the video and saw the face materialize and thought, "Wait WHOOA, is THAT Dubravka Tomsic?! No wonder it's so good!" I only happened to know of her from some other '92ish "Classic Digital CD" of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" my uncle bought us as a Christmas present and which was among our first Compact Discs. It was one of those bargain dealies, but the sound was simply so moving and astonishing I could never get over it so I played that CD hundreds of times. And I'd later heard other performers do the piece and they sounded limpid, or muffled by comparison, like they weren't feeling it and swaying with it and slightly dancing dangerously outside the rigid confines of the time-signature the way Dubravka played with all these things so effortlessly. So that was what made me research the performer herself.
ANYWAY, I got SO excited when I saw her face here that I yelled across the room to my wife and then set about composing this fan love-letter of a utubular post.
THANKS for the upload.
Love that first movement as interpreted here. Not overstated, not bombastic.
I literally cry every time I listen to this masterpiece ❤
Thank you Grieg for your beautiful music ❤
Great composer. Great piece.
Just a whisper, a faint farewell,forever lasting immortal memories & the sweet nostalgia this evokes. How it triumphs in a world frozen in its own darkness. BEAUTIFUL.
In my opinion, this concert is his masterpiece.
Oh dear, this is truly a master piece in the repertoires of classical music. I can't count how many times that I listened to this one since I was a little boy. I would say that I keep listening to this one, and I wish to say many Thanks to the Pianist and anyone in lovely Orchestra. Thank You. TKH.
Величественно, талантливо, грандиозно!
I should listen to more Grieg. This simply blew me away.
I absolutely LOVE his holberg suite. Gets you from the first 10 seconds. But his Varen (spring) is something else
Best interpretation i've ever see.
I pulled this up to write while listening to it, but I ended up just listening because it was too beautiful to focus. Amazing.
This is so beautiful to this old man it literally makes me howl with pure joy, my tears are still running....thank you so much!
Really
My happiness was always someone I could not have and a place I could not be...
Edvard Grieg
Sweet and fantasic trip!!! The sky was mine in this moment...
This is by far the best rendition of Grieg's timeless piano concerto. I've listened to it no less than 30 times; this piece invokes true emotional gratification in me. Dubravka Tomsic plays the concerto better than any other pianist. Her tempo, expression, and musicality far surpass any other recording I've listened to. Take my word for it. Don't listen to any other recording; this is the one.
Rubinstein is amazing as well, and at a shocking 88 years old!
Another Grieg recording by Tomsic also exists and is also very good.
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I thank my high school music teacher for introducing me to the classics, like Grieg. Fantastique.
Gorgeous music to be sure, but what stuns me the most is the 1-minute span between 15:07 - 16:12 that I cannot get enough of. Wow!
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Beautiful performance ....Thanks for sharing..
The cadenza starting at 9:03 easily qualifies for the best piano music ever written
I adore this concerto for its clarity. I like it as much as the rach concertos or chopins concerto.
One of my favourite pieces and will always be. Love this tune.
me and you both brother
I am 78 and have played this countless times over the years. I never tire of it and it never fails to move me
i love this CONCERTO...OH Grieg......
A moving piece of music. The second movement is painfully beautiful.
Interesting fact: Canada's pianist and Bach specialist, Glenn Gould was Grieg's nephew.
Actually Glenn Goulds maternal grandfather was Grieg's cousin.
Samuel Hyde you copied that from Wikipedia
Glenn looks like Kylo Ren
@@Csfannw You say that like it's a bad thing. You expect the guy to remember Grieg's complete ancestry?
@@numbo655 well, maybe not Grieg's but at least Gould's
He's Playing all the right notes and also in the right order
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More Grieg recordings exist from Dubravka , a woman born 7 February 1940 in Dubrovnik , Croatia
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My introduction to classical music was this beautiful work by Grieg. I have loved music ever since--I was 14 when I heard this for the first time; eighty years ago.
A seriously perfect performance of a most beautiful piece by one of my favourite composers!
This is my favorite classical music piece by far. It is put together wonderfully, and it expresses so much emotion, it make me happy just listening to it. Well done Grieg
Great compositor!! Brilliant!!!
What a marvelous performance and recording. The sound is ravishing. I have always loved this masterpiece. The second movement, still to this day, is my favorite of the three; It still can move me to tears. Oh well.Lo!
Update: 20 Top Piano Concertos....in my opinion. ^_^
1. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3
2. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
3. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major
4. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
5. Grieg's Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor
6. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1
7. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 "Coronation"
8. Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3
9. Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos
10. Bach's Piano/Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 "English Concerto"
11. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83
12. Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4
13. Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
14. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4
15. Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21
16. Chopin's Adante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
17. Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 22
18. Paderewski's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17
19. Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102
20. Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Jonathon Toni I like both of Brahms' piano concertos too...
+Jonathon Toni I would replace Mozart with Schumann and one of Saint Saens' (1,2,4,5 depending on my mood) and sorry Tchaikovsky i love your music but its a toss up between Rach's Rhapsody on Paganini and Scriabin for that particular slot.Otherwise i would be happy to die to that list.
Jonathon Toni As long as Rachmaninoff's 2nd, and 3rd are at the top, the list is accurate.
someone who loves Rachmaninoff! Finally!
Jonathon Toni wheres brahms???
This music is fabulous classical by a wonderful composer enjoyed by generation after generation, longevity of a musical form for years and years into the future
Thank you for putting this on. Greig must have been a lovely human being to have written this. My memories are of sitting under my father's piano as a child.
Our Mom and Dad had many great records when we were kids. So I often listened to Grieg's Piano Concerto, and have always loved it!
Mám skladby...E.Griegra velmy rada!! Su nádherné!!!! Dakujem
So far the best performance of this concerto uploaded in one file.
Genial, unforgettable, a nice masterpiece so inspired, what else ? One of my ten beloved concerts . . . .
I love Griegs' music - this is the real norwegian, european value!
Jeg elsker Griegs musikk - det er riktig norsk, europeisk verdi!
Szeretem Grieg zenéjét - ez igazi norvég, európai érték!
vakkert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes
wuttt you speak Hungarian and Norwegian!!that's cool
Fantastic💗💗💗Rachmaninoff said that is Grieg's concerto the best piano concerto ever writen!
One of the best concertos composed!!!!!! It is so emotional and it is like a story.
I think people take for granted and don't search up the "ancient" foundations of music. I can't believe we forget some of our composers, such a Kalinnikov, Dobrinski, and I really hope we will forget Grieg!!!!
I Thank God for this!!!!
I had the privilege to hear this a few months ago in LA. Much better to listen to in person!
same! I agree!
Hearing classical music live is really the only thing that does it justice
a classic is defined as something that never ages-this music never does on the 5th or 5000 listening. its a delight from beginning to end.
This thrilling concerto is so different from others---the tonal structure, etc. It feels more outdoor than any other concerto--no surprise as Grieg's first inspiration was his beloved Norwegian country side which he loved to hike in. Its certainly a classic and in the 'arsenal' of any first class pianist along with the Beethoven., Rach, and Mozart
Melancholie und Leichtigkeit, schweres im Leichten, kein anderer Komponist, keine andere Symphonie erzeugt seit mehr als 25 Jahren ein ähnliches Gefühl in mir. Bis heute bin ich mir nicht klar darüber, ob es eine Spezifität einzigartiger Komposition oder die emotionale Fixierung eines musikalischen Werkes in einer bestimmten Lebensphase ist, die mich immer und immer wieder derart emotional einnimmt.
Thanks for your upload of this masterpiece, with such a great interpretation!
Always impressed with this masterpiece, and fortunately for most of the world Balkan strife is taking a back seat to this symphony orchestra.
Win, win.
Warren, don't you mean Baltic, not Balkan?
Sofisticated beauty...I v heard countless times,never enough...d i v i n e
ME ENCANTA ESTE CONCIERTO DEL SR.GRIEG..GRACIAS POR COMPARIR.
Beautiful and Unique Music , Thank You for sharing, Best of Luck
A mis '80 no me canso de disfrutar este maravilloso concierto de Grieg.