ExclusiveChopin: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 - III. Rondo – Vivace (String Quintet arr.)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 - III. Rondo – Vivace (String Quintet arr.). This beautiful piece was played by Zuzana Šimurdová. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

The piano concerto is dedicated to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, a pianist and composer whose playing Chopin admired. Another influence is apparently Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Harold C. Schonberg, in The Great Pianists, writes "...the openings of the Hummel A minor and Chopin E minor concertos are too close to be coincidental".

While composing it, Chopin wrote to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski, saying "Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes, I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong".[3] This sight may have been the well-known soprano Konstancja Gładkowska, believed by some to be the "ideal" behind the Larghetto from Chopin's Second Piano Concerto, although some believe Chopin may have been referring to Woyciechowski.

The premiere, on 12 October 1830, was "a success.... a full house". According to the Kurier Warszawski, there was "an audience of about 700". The concerto was premiered with Chopin himself at the piano and Carlo Evasio Soliva conducting. The piece was followed by "thunderous applause". Seven weeks later, in Paris, following the political outbreaks in Poland, Chopin played his concerto for the first time in France at the Salle Pleyel. It was received well, once again. François-Joseph Fétis wrote in La Revue musicale the next day that "There is spirit in these melodies, there is fantasy in these passages, and everywhere there is originality".

However, Robert Schumann took a rather different view when he reviewed Chopin's concerti in 1836 for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, stating that "Chopin introduces the spirit of Beethoven into the concert hall" with these pieces.

The video was captured by Simone Schlegel in Simmental, Switzerland, and edited by Wenjing Ma.




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