X-Nico

unusual facts about Piano Concerto No. 5 |



2 + 2 = 5

"2 + 2 = 5" (a.k.a. "The Lukewarm.") is the opening track on English rock band Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief, released in 2003.

Adela Verne

the first performance at the Prom Concerts of Brahms's B flat Concerto (and the first woman to play this concerto at all in the UK; previously, it was considered so demanding that it was not advisable for a woman to attempt it. This attitude prevailed until after the Second World War in Australia, when Vera Bradford became the first woman to play the concerto in that country)

Anton Sistermans

He performed Beethoven's Kantate auf den Tod Kaiser Josephs II (cantata in memory of Joseph II) and Ninth Symphony in a concert in Wuppertal on 17 December 1892, which also included Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 and was conducted by Hans Haym.

Arthur Nikisch

On November 10, 1913, Nikisch made one of the earliest recordings of a complete symphony, Beethoven's 5th, with the Berlin Philharmonic, a performance later reissued on LP and CD by DGG and other modern labels.

Assia Zlatkowa

Since then she was often invited to Germany, both East- and West-, and aged 17 she played together with the Berlin Philharmonic the Beethoven Op37, after which she toured in Poland, Italy, East- and West Germany and in Denmark.

Cadenza

Pianists Chick Corea and Makoto Ozone incorporated jazz cadenzas into an otherwise traditional performance in Japan of the Mozart Double Piano Concerto.

Charles Houdret

With this ensemble, he notably conducted Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B flat major in a 1942 recording on the His Master's Voice music label.

Eugene Istomin

He made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy, playing a concerto by Chopin, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Artur Rodziński playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the same week in 1943.

Eugene List

In 1929, at the age of 12, he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Artur Rodziński, playing Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto.

Full Moon and Empty Arms

"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is a 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.

Hazel Hawke

In 1990, she was one of the three soloists in Mozart's Concerto in F for Three Pianos and Orchestra, K. 242, the others being Duncan Gifford and Rebecca Chambers.

Herman Rietzel

According to an official of Steinway and Sons, Rafael Joseffy spoke highly of Rietzel's promise, and in fact Reitzel was chosen to substitute for Joseffy, who had incurred a hand injury, in Beethoven's Fourth piano concerto with the Staten Island Philharmonic Society on January 24, 1880.

Ilya Itin

His chamber music recordings, include DVDs of Beethoven's "Spring" sonata with Igor Gruppman, Brahms' Viola Sonata in F minor with Vesna Gruppman, and a recital with legendary violinist Ida Haendel at the Miami International Piano Festival.

Jaromír Weinberger

It was once considered by the artists of the Walt Disney studio to be made into a Fantasia segment for Fantasia 2000, but lost out to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, in the form of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier".

Jon Nakamatsu

During the summer of 2005, Nakamatsu toured with the San Jose Youth Symphony in Spain, performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, and in June 2007, he toured with the Peninsula Youth Orchestra to Budapest, Prague, and Teplice playing the same piece.

Jonathan Cohler

Cohler's conducting engagements have included Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela, and Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker with the Indian Hill Orchestra (Groton, Massachusetts) and the Granite State Ballet Company in New Hampshire, and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra with the Texas All-State Symphony Orchestra in San Antonio.

Lazar Berman

He recorded the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with Herbert von Karajan, as well as broadcasting it on international television with Antal Doráti, to mark United Nations Day in 1976.

Lucy Anderson

In 1837 the publisher Alfred Novello gave Lucy Anderson exclusive rights for six months to play Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in England.

Machine Messiah

The song includes a quote from the Toccata of Charles-Marie Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5 and Horn's lyric quotes the oft-used phrase "dark Satanic mills" from a William Blake poem.

Magnetophon

This includes a performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with pianist Walter Gieseking and the Berlin Reichssenders Orchestra conducted by Artur Rother.

Maximus Musicus

The story is told to an abridged Boléro, the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth and Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man as well as Maxi’s Song, composed by author Hallfríður, and the Icelandic all-time favourite “Á Sprengisandi” by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns.

Musical keyboard

Examples of music written for the left hand alone include several of Leopold Godowsky's 53 Studies on Chopin's Etudes, Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand.

New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble

The ensemble’s range of programming includes the 1993 world premiere of Stravinsky’s A Soldier's Tale, with Kurt Vonnegut’s new text; the 1999 American premiere of Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4, for piano and string quintet; and numerous collaborations with the late jazz pianist Sir Roland Hanna.

Piccolo

It is a myth that one of the earliest pieces to use the piccolo was Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, premiered in December 1808.

Pink, Plunk, Plink

His ultimate goal is to have the group perform his own theme music in place of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Sondra Bianca

Liszt - '"Piano Concerto No. 1 - Jean Martinon conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra of Paris (Plymouth Records P12.38, 1952)

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor - Carl Bamberger Conducting (Columbia Records HS 11012, 1950s)

Song Sung Blue

"Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 hit song written and recorded by Neil Diamond, largely based on the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #21.

Storm Bull

On March 2, 1939, he gave the first North American performance of Bartók's Second Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frederick Stock.

Tatiana Riabouchinska

Subsequently, she created roles in other Massine works, including the first three of his famous, and controversial, "symphonic" ballets: Frivolity in Les Présages (1933), set to Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; the third and fourth movements of Choreartium (1933), set to Brahms's Fourth Symphony; and Reverie in Symphonie Fantastique (1936), by Berlioz.

Teresa Giudice

In 2012, Giudice joined the cast of the reality competition The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (also known as The Apprentice 12), ultimately raising $70,000 for her selected charity, The NephCure Foundation.

The Truman Show: Music from the Motion Picture

Also featured in the film are Frédéric Chopin's "Romance-Larghetto" from his first piano concerto, performed by Arthur Rubinstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, performed by Wilhelm Kempff, Wojciech Kilar's "Father Kolbe's Preaching" performed by the Orchestra Philharmonique National de Pologne and "20th Century Boy" performed by rockabilly band The Big Six.

Ungarische Zigeunerweisen

While this theory is considered exceedingly unlikely by some, it is not so considered by Janina Fialkowska, the pianist who premiered Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1990.

Valentina Babor

Appearing at the Gasteig in 2005, she performed Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor with the Münchener Kammerorchester, conducted by Christoph Poppen.

West Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Among notable soloists who have performed with the orchestra are Jessye Norman, Joshua Bell, Percy Grainger, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Yuri Rozum performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff with the orchestra on May 5, 2007.

Wu Qian

In October 2009, Qian represented China in the Europalia festival performing Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Brussels Philharmonic in a tour of Belgium under Carlos Kalmar.


see also