Ever heard Pollini play the Beatles?
mainKarl Böhm conducts. Who else?
As if.
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Did any well-known pianist, apart from the dedicatee, actually play the Lutoslawski concerto? Pollini, Argerich, Barenboim, and the younger ones, and the young ones – why do you neglect that masterpiece?
Thinking of this while thinking of what Pollini definitely didn’t record or play.
https://youtu.be/Wn-nAFzOmkU
I heard Peter Donohue give a great rendition of it with the Chicago Symphony (and FWM) around 1998. I assume he played it elsewhere.
Leif Ove Andsnes played the Luto ISTR
Janina Fialkowska performed the Lutoslawski Piano Concerto with the Toronto Symphony in 2013. She may have performed it elsewhere as well.
Excluding the dedicatee, Zimerman, Arkivmusic liost another seven pianists to have recorded it, including Andnes, Ohlson and Vogt.
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=7407&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=19634
Louis Lortie recorded it in 2011 and played it at the Proms in 2013: https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205098
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezprzc
Clever video editing. Nice ornamentation. Not enough passage work or modulation. Lame cadenza, if you could call it that.
Cute adaptation and video editing! (For those who know, the John Rutter ‘Beatles Concerto for two pianos and orchestra’ is vintage 1970s and quite special. It cannot be performed due to life exclusivity by the commissioning parties; I will ask John if something can work around…
Wow, that’s both beautiful and fun!
Do you know of any comments on the Beatles Concerto from the any of the Beatles?
No. Perhaps a work for hire and the commissioning party own the rights. Performance rights from copyright holders of the songs might pose other issues. Perhaps this is why it is not out there in performances.
I once scheduled the Rutter Concerto at a pops concert with Rostal and Schaefer performing. It was a huge success! It is a great pity it is not now more readily available.
They will not allow anyone else to play it. It is a delightful work, well written, very much in the vein of Ferrante and Teicher of yesteryear.
Amusingly, the music sounds a bit like Poulenc.