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Sep 13, 2021 · Cliburn returned home to a New York City ticker-tape parade, and his recording of the work (still available) became the first classical album to go platinum. Hot on the heels of his Moscow victory, he performed the concerto at Carnegie Hall on May 19, 1958.
- Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No.2. This colossus of the piano repertoire topped the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame for the first time in 2001 and hasn’t strayed far since, reaching that No.1 spot an impressive eight times so far, since the chart began in 1996.
- Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.5 (‘Emperor’) We all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case you absolutely can: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 absolutely lives up to its imperial nickname.
- Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor. The great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg only completed one piano concerto during his lifetime, and it has become one of the most recognised in the world (thanks, in part, to the iconic comedy sketch by Morecambe and Wise, and the late André Previn).
- Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No.2. Shostakovich himself downplayed this concerto, saying it had “no redeeming artistic merits”, but audiences have always begged to differ.
- In The Beginning...
- 1880s – An Idea Is Born
- 1890s – The Hall Opens
- 1920s-1950s – An Uncertain Future
- 1960s – The Fight to Avoid Demolition
- Which Pianists Have appeared at Carnegie?
In 1871 conductor, composer, and violinist Leopold Damrosch emigrated from Germany to New York. Damrosch had joined Liszt in 1857 as a violin soloist with the Weimar Court Orchestra and was the dedicatee of Liszt’s tone poem Tasso. He was a friend of Wagner and a major proponent of music of the ‘new’ German School. A dynamic presence on the New Yor...
After the death of their father, Frank and Walter Damrosch took over the Oratorio Society of New York and the Symphony Society. Andrew Carnegie was a supporter of both organisations, and during an Atlantic crossing in the late 1880s, Walter, a friend of the Carnegies (Mrs Carnegie was a member of the Oratorio Society), approached Andrew with the id...
Unsurprisingly, most written histories of Carnegie Hall ignore the fact that its illustrious history actually began with a piano recital, citing instead the ‘official’ grand opening of the main hall, a concert on 5 May 1891 featuring Walter Damrosch and special guest of honour Tchaikovsky. But it was a pianist who opened the hall, and another piani...
The Carnegie family retained ownership of the hall until 1925, when it was sold to property developer Robert E Simon, whose family kept it until 1960. Simon’s heirs in turn attempted to sell the property to the New York Philharmonic, which declined the offer on account of its impending move to the new Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fischer Hall) at L...
Yet by 1960 Carnegie Hall, now located on a prime piece of mid-town commercial real estate, was marked for demolition. Violinist Isaac Stern led the crusade to save Carnegie Hall, which was purchased by the City of New York from the Simon family and reorganised in its current configuration as an independent not-for-profit corporation. In 1962 the b...
Death backstage! It is practically impossible to know exactly how many pianists have performed at Carnegie Hall in the years since 1891. Archivist Gino Francesconi recalls that for a 2003 exhibition, ‘I drove my assistants crazy getting together a list of every pianist ever heard at the hall. We stopped around 4,000.’ One noted pianist, Simon Barer...
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Jun 22, 2021 · Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra performed the work on a program that included music by Damrosch, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky, who was on also hand to conduct his Piano Concerto No. 1. It’s not surprising that Beethoven’s symphony remains so popular with audiences and artists.
Aug 13, 2021 · Between 1909 and 1942, Rachmaninoff made nearly 100 appearances at Carnegie Hall. His debut on November 13, 1909, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra featured his own Second Piano Concerto, which has since become his most frequently performed work at the Hall. In this film from 1973, Herbert von Karajan leads the Berlin Philharmonic with soloist Alexis Weissenberg in Rachmaninoff’s Piano ...
Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the work premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City. [2] [3] Whiteman's band performed the rhapsody with Gershwin playing the piano. [4]
Dec 22, 2023 · Explore our selection of the best piano concertos featuring masterpieces by composers including Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart and Rachmaninov.
