Thank you!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! This is one of the first concerts I posted on my channel because at that time I was listening to a lot of Hummel music. Some confusion surrounds this Concerto in A major, which Hummel seems to have reworked several times during his lifetime. As a result, there are other recordings slightly modified nowadays of this concerto, but identified as WoO24a S4, sometimes as S5.

@@sibarit101 Thank you for the information. I've read in some comment you wanted to stop with posting in the beginning, luckily for your subscribers you didn't !

@@fransmeersman2334Thanks again! Yes, it was like that in the beginning, but I had to respect the 247 subscribers I had at that time.... 🙂 I wish you all the best!

Thank you very much! This work is one of the very first concertos to be written in the ‘brillant’ style, a genre that Hummel himself and others (Ries, Czerny, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles, etc.) would make very popular in the period 1810-30. But there is some confusions surround the A major concerto. Hummel seems to have re-worked it more then once during his lifetime. This recording is based on manuscripts in the British Library but, in fact, there is also the concert in A called posthumously WoO24a S5 with identical movement 2, but the outer movements of this manuscript, discovered in Florence, are quite different from those of British Library. I will post this "new" concerto in the near future.

Thank you very much! I'm glad you liked this concerto and you gave me your enthusiastic opinion.

Merci à vous!

I agree with you. Thank you for your nice comment.

Thank you, I agree, Hummel was one of the great composers. I'm glad you like his music as well as other talented composers of that time.

Listen to Ferdinand Ries piano concertos. I think you will be stunned by them too !

Fa schifo il tuo complimento

Thank you too, I'm glad you discovered this concerto. Hummel' main compositions are for the piano, he was one of the great virtuosi on this instrument.

Thanks for this nice comment!

That's a good description of the beautiful sound that is Hummel.

so ist es ...

Ferdinand Ries is equal.

Are you related to the composer?

You're welcome!

Thanks again! I love Hummel's concertos too!

When I posted this concerto, the concerto op.85, which I really like, was already posted here on youtube. Still, I later posted it (op.85) with another pianist, but it did not enjoy too much appreciation. I'm glad you liked also this one in A major. Thanks.

Thank you for your comment. I do not know what the musicologists think today about Hummel's music, but I can tell you that I've discovered Hummel's music about 10 years ago, and since then I have listened to all his recorded music. I never felt bored. Moreover, I even happened to miss my breathing at two from his piano concertos. I do not say that all his music is up to the level of those who are called "The Great ones," but if you try to listen to ALL Beethoven's music, for example, I think you'll come to the conclusion that a part from his music does not rise to his reputation (that does not mean I like less his concertos, symphonies, and some from his piano sonatas) I repeat, it is my opinion as a listener, so we must expect the opinion of a musicologist.

Nothing that was known more than 50 years ago is no longer relevant. Hummel, the man once mentioned in the same breath as Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, was neglected long time. His scores are still sought after and researched. For example his concerto in A major, WoO 24a S.5, is considered his SECOND piano concerto and was only rediscovered in the 1960s among the papers of Maria Hummel (a descendent) in Florence. It also bears the inscription “not to be published”. I also posted a piano concerto considered to be Op. post.1 (Piano Concerto in F major).

@@sibarit101 Well, I've had recordings of Hummel's piano music at home for nearly thirty-five years, as well as his famous bassoon and trumpet concertos. The first recordings I had were the piano concerto in A minor op. 85 and the concerto in C op. 44, which at that time passed for number 2. They were recordings from Czechoslovakia, performed by the Slowakische Philharmonie and the Kammerensemble Bratislava, conducted by Ladislav Slovák and Vlastimil Horák respectively. The pianists were Ivan Palovic and Pavol Kovác. In the late 1980s I bought a CD with two Hummel piano sonatas performed by Ian Hobson: the sonata op. 20 and op. 38, and also another disc with the concerto in A minor op. 85 and the concerto in B minor op. 89 performed by the Budapest Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Tamás Pál with Chang Hae-won on piano. It is curious that this recording calls "number 2" the concerto op. 85, despite being a much later recording than the first one I had bought, and names the concert op. 89 as "concert number 3". A little over 15 years ago I also bought a CD with two other interesting Hummel concertos: the piano and violin op. 17 and the one for violin and orchestra without opus number, completed by Gregory Rose. What I notice most about Hummel in his piano concertos is the influence of "jodel" or "tyrolean-style singing", identified in those long and rapid successions of musical notes that quickly pass from the lowest to the highest registers.

Gracias por contribuir a mejorar mi pobrisima cultura musical.

Thank you for your comment. I never posted a full album because I know it will not be listened (I found it watching the time average of the listening to pieces on my channel - 6-7 minutes maximum). But I will post this so enjoyably piece performed by Alessandro Commellato.

TY II. Romanze: Adagio 13:48

@@sibarit101 I specifically look for pieces that are >1 hour because I'm working while listening.

Thank you again.

A nice comment, thank you. If I understand your language correctly, you express a lot of love for Hummel's music!

Yes, try also the piano concerts by John Baptist Cramer and Ferdinand Ries.

The cover of the CD announces the work "Enchantment Oberon, Op. 116" composed by Hummel. It is a fantasy (1829) in which Hummel refers to the music of the "Oberon" opera composed by Carl Maria von Weber.

Thank you, since Oberon is a dream sequence character from Midsummer Night's Dream, Von Weber most likely based it on that..