Just a quick entry to share my joy and love for this piece of music.
A very favourite Classical piece of my entire life.
Nothing uplifts my soul or makes me cry tears because of it's beauty more than this piece.
Tchaikovsky had a knack for pulling you in emotionally and then letting you crave more tears, sadness, joy and exhilaration, with shocking beauty and melody.
Tchaikovsky is not my favourite composer, DUH, I'm a violinist, bad nerd joke there...
Well with this Russian Virtuoso is a pianist, and well, naturally I am loyal to my favourite violinists.
Either way, this piece will be playing when I am in my last moments of life... I don't care how crazy of an old lady I am I will make the nursing home people play it.
So this concerto is like, 34 minutes long, which is nothing to me having played 2 1/2 hour long symphonies but if you want to slap this on in the backround of whatever you are doing you will love it as much as I do I can promise you that.
The first movement has me crying every single time I put it on... it is my favourite.
Plus I love to play the first violins part in the first 3 minutes of the first movement.
The second movement bores me a little, it is a little more restrained than I think he would have liked to be, he did to please the crowds with a traditional Largo following the Allegro, but then the third movement makes me feel like there is magic all around me, like butterflies everywhere and some sense of triumph and victory.
Plus the chick in this video recording does a wonderful job of truly playing this piece the proper way, dare I say better than Tchaikovsky himself... I shan't. What a sin...
This Russian can play THE SHIT out of a piano, and I must say he wasn't too hard on the eyes in his day.
OH! When you think it's over at 20 minutes, it so not. Finish it all.
-E.
