Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski - Concerto pour piano nº 1
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_pour_piano_n%C2%BA_1_de_Tcha%C3%AFkovski
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaxBavIBDk
Van Cliburn on piano and Kiril Kondrashin conducting.
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We now know that this is not the version #Tchaikovsky wrote! The Tchaikovsky Research Foundation has edited a new 2015 urtext version based on the composer’s final thoughts, not the accretions foisted on the score by students and virtuosos. The pianist Kirill Gerstein has called the thunderous opening chords ’Soviet Bombs,’ especially because Tchaikovsky never wrote them. But of course they are effective and thrilling!
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Tchaikovsky)#History
Russian music historian Francis Maes writes that because of its independence from the rest of the work,
[f]or a long time, the introduction posed an enigma to analysts and critics alike.…The key to the link between the introduction and what follows is…Tchaikovsky’s gift of hiding motivic connections behind what appears to be a flash of melodic inspiration. The opening melody comprises the most important motivic core elements for the entire work, something that is not immediately obvious, owing to its lyric quality. However, a closer analysis shows that the themes of the three movements are subtly linked. Tchaikovsky presents his structural material in a spontaneous, lyrical manner, yet with a high degree of planning and calculation.
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Tchaikovsky revised the concerto three times, the last being in 1888, which is the version usually now played. One of the most prominent differences between the original and final versions is that in the opening section, the octave chords played by the pianist, over which the orchestra plays the famous theme, were originally written as arpeggios. The work was also arranged for two pianos by Tchaikovsky, in December 1874; this edition was revised December 1888.
