There is a healthy number of them, all breathtakingly beautiful among them, the D minor concerto edges ahead for its brilliant, toccata-like writing, its ebullient rhythms, and its poised, meditative slow movement.
But that doesn’t mean they can’t also sound a million dollars on the modern piano, and in the 21st century, there is scant reason to confine them to quarters. This may be a controversial choice since Bach’s concertos are really for harpsichord. Love it or loathe it, Turangalîla remains a one-off experience.Ĭlick to load video 13: Bach: Keyboard Concerto In D Minor Yvonne’s sister Jeanne Loriod was this instrument’s chief exponent.
Turangalîla combines eclectic influences, including Indian spirituality, Indonesian gamelan, and a synaesthetic fusion of color with sound and the composer tops the lot with an ondes martenot, the electronic swoops of which made it a favorite in the scores of horror movies. It was premiered in Boston in 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and was written for the French pianist Yvonne Loriod, whom Messiaen later married. It’s not called a concerto, but Olivier Messiaen’s gargantuan ten-movement symphony to love, sex, God, and the universe features a solo piano part that could defeat any concerto on home turf. And I have broken the rule in any case… Scroll down to explore our selection of the greatest piano concertos. My one rule is to include only one concerto by each composer, but this does, naturally, give you the chance to explore the competition from their other works too. I’ve therefore picked 15, but some ace favorites are still missing, and I am horrified to find that the list is all-male.
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Supposing you’re at a shoe shop and you have free rein to select the slinkiest, most stratospherically-heeled jobs on the rack, but what you actually need is a good pair of hiking trainers… Oh, and can you bring yourself to leave the purple suede slingbacks behind? This is rather like trying to choose the top ten best piano concertos from a repertoire so rich that it could keep us happy listening to nothing else for the rest of the year.
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