Kieth Emerson’s problem was that he was such an over the top rock star and musician, that he eclipsed his own genius as a composer. As a long time ELP fan, I didn’t realize it myself, until I saw Rachel Flowers play Tarkus on a grand piano in a recital, and all of the true brilliance of Kieth Emerson as a composer was on display for everyone to see.
@tarkus123dave10 ай бұрын
Whenever I feel lost, I play this; it's Keith's finest hour. God bless you man for so many pleasurable hours of my life. You live on in so many peoples lives.💓
@tose9173 жыл бұрын
The work of a genius. Rest In Peace Maestro.
@scabbycatcat42024 жыл бұрын
It is a total injustice to Keith Emerson that this concerto has never been played at the Proms . That venue would have given it the world wide publicity that this masterpiece deserves . It is astonishing to me that this piece is not more well known or played.
@starry27424 жыл бұрын
I agree. He's British as well so a real oversight.
@annevanderwaal59164 жыл бұрын
I fully agree. This piece deserves to be played by renowned pianists and orchestras and should be broadcast on radio every now and then.
@sylvainjazz3 жыл бұрын
However, there was this interpretation three years ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h6t-f8Z3utmWh6c.html
@GerhardRichter_myopus3 жыл бұрын
There is no better way to express the discrepancy of a forgotten masterpiece
@Waymar073 жыл бұрын
Their version of Jerusalem is completely unironic and as British as one could ask, yet the BBC banned it. Even the Pythons got away with mocking this hymn, but not ELP.
@derekjago862 Жыл бұрын
Come on all you "Promenaders". Let us have a huge on-line push to have this amazing work performed as part of the "Last Night of the Proms"!!
@derekjago862 Жыл бұрын
A true masterpiece by anyone's standards. Maybe Classic FM will become Keith's well deserved standard bearer?
@morbidmanmusic7 ай бұрын
not anyone's, yours. There are plenty of flaws, copy cat, and college level writing... and playing. Yes, I love Keith, but have to be real. Also, He had lots of help orchestrating it.
@Ruda-n4h5 ай бұрын
I've tried to get them and Radio 3 to play it for years without any success. I believe it was played once by the BBC in the late 70's. I am not sure if this is prejudice over the fact that it was composed by a rock musician and so not seen as highbrow enough for a ‘serious’ radio station or because he committed suicide? We hear Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue or John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine ad nauseum and the Piano Concerto compares very favourably with these. The pianist Jeffrey Biegel who has performed the piece in concert said.“The first time I performed his concerto was with a conductor friend of mine, David Gilbert. He had a community orchestra in New Jersey, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. ‘If you say it’s good, let’s do it.’ The piece had legs. I started pairing it with Leroy Anderson’s Piano Concerto, Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, and Chopin’s Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise.”
@lakito9021411 күн бұрын
All of the great composers of the past . Back, Beethovan, Strauss and Stravinsky would have been in awe. Long live Keith Emerson ❤.
@MC-jv6fs8 ай бұрын
Sein Ableben hat eine Wunde hinterlassen . So zeitlos wie seine Musik.
@itfc19593 жыл бұрын
This is a lot better now than I remembered it to be then. There are lot of influences on display, mainly Copland (obviously), and to my ears, Gershwin. Thanks for putting it up, I enjoyed it.
@DariusSarrafi Жыл бұрын
Also Bach, Bartók and English hymns!
@reednokleby142016 күн бұрын
This is what makes music so wonderful! Musicians inspiring musicians! John Williams obviously listened and admired many artists.
@flaviowilner12885 жыл бұрын
After so many years I can visualize what this intricate masterpiece looks like. So rich...
@giorgiopatassini7833 Жыл бұрын
Ci sento dentro tutto il Novecento, musicalmente e culturalmente...
@aler83433 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace MAESTRO your work will always be listened and apreciated
@francescoiovino5529 Жыл бұрын
Geniale come solo Emerson poteva fare! Rimango sempre più meravigliato dell'eleganza e tecnica del grande musicista britannico!
@markbocchicchio91716 жыл бұрын
Wow. It's been so long since I have heard that piece, I have forgotten how great it is (I bought it on vinyl and don't have a turntable anymore!). Emerson did not get the credit that he deserves as a 20th century composer. In 100 years, music historians will look upon him as one of the greatest of the century. I don't know where you got the original handwritten score, but what a cool thing!
@josefhollenbauer10434 жыл бұрын
Same with me. Had it on LP - still ought to have it - but didn't listen to it for years, in fact decades. Now today I remembered it and looked for it on KZfaq. And here it is, and I'm listening to it, happy. Now that I'm knowing more about music, it seems to me partly like Francis Poulenc (very strong), sometimes like Bernstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber (3rd movement). They all have grown famous, Keith Emerson hasn't. Don't understand, why. Wrong audience? Pop fans not liking piano concerts? Classic listeners not knowing him (and Lake and Palmer)? May be. Anyway, some people know and love this concerto and will ever listen to it! Thank you so much!
@cheaplaffsarefree2 жыл бұрын
I still have it on vinyl too. And I even have the turntable I got in 1983, but I haven't hooked it up despite having moved god knows how many times. No idea whether it even works or not and I broke the tabs off the dust cover in the mid-90s and was never able to find a replacement. How sad is that?
@drsauce43474 жыл бұрын
Keith wanted to be best known as a great composer. This piece will certainly confirm he was.
@herbertwells87573 жыл бұрын
If you want to be known as a “great composer”, the least thing you can do is orchestrate your own piano concerto yourself. You need to get out more.
@MomentsNotice Жыл бұрын
@@herbertwells8757 This is one of the worst comments I've ever read, not just because of the opinion, but I'll give some background as to why I think that: Yes, it's your opinion - althought it reads as if you're trying to lecture people, and even Keith himself, on what one should do to be a great composer - many composers' had their piano concerti among their greatest, most established and well known works - composers such as Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Bartok, Ligeti and many others. These works were also where they showed the heights of their compositional techniques. Of course they had other works, but you word your comment as if composing a piano concerto is somewhat easier and lazier than composing for a formation that doesn't have your main instrument in it, which is as wrong as one can be. By the way, the reason why Keith Emerson is not highly known among composers is because the majority of his work was done under the guise of "rock" music, mainly because of the instrumentation and the image ELP had, but when you listen to Tarkus or Karn Evil 9, you'll see that it's way way closer to Ginastera, Bartok (and to what late Ligeti would do decades after) and jazz than to, say, Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith. This coupled with the fact that, in one side, some current rock lovers might find the music too dense and complex and on the other side, some classical/contemporary music lovers will instantly dismiss it because they think they are above such genres. This makes Keith's music a strange animal, even though his place in history is already established, just not widely recognized, because when you study his craft of form and development, his harmonies, the timbres, his rhythmic inovations and his counterpoint, the music he was doing in the early 70s was on par with the type of writing that would arise in contemporary chamber and concert music in the 80s. This concert here is even somewhat aesthetically tamed when compared to his other stuff. Also, not trying to put the weight of what happened on you, but comments such as yours are just like the types of online comments that utimately made Keith Emerson commit suicide. That is, prescriptive comments that try to disguise a somewhat hateful and unbased opinion as an objective fact, as if you are above it all and the bearer of all truth. Just something for you to think about.
@morbidmanmusic7 ай бұрын
@@MomentsNotice Oh Please, ... what he said is true. And that is all he said. You didn't even address that AT ALL. You went on a rant. That was some of the most high and mighty, poorly spelled preaching I've seen as a professional musician. You are so damn funny,. "to dense and complex," you arrogant p+ick. Laughable. Fans are horrible. Fans made keith do it. You are that type of rabid fan he was worried about. I talked to him for over an hour on that subject decades earlier.
@michaelvaladez65703 жыл бұрын
A brilliant and moving piece.His othe. concerto he wrote when his studio burndt down.You can tell right from the start it was meant to be what it was about.RIP K.Emerson.
@HarvestHome2000 Жыл бұрын
I'd be willing to bet this brilliant piece has never featured in the BBC Prom concerts, whereas the ghastly, tuneless rackets 'composed' by Harrison Birtwistle were featured in a Last Night. Never mind, Keith, WE all loved you and your music, and that's all that really matters.
@gabrielhicks8043 Жыл бұрын
There's no need to put down someone else's music to praise Emerson.
@Ruda-n4h5 ай бұрын
If you played this to a musical 'expert' without telling then who or what it was, they would wax lyrical back to you.
@extx5 жыл бұрын
Arguably one of the best composer and artist of the 20th century.
@shiroumxm2052 Жыл бұрын
jajajajajajaj
@torsten63 Жыл бұрын
Bullshit.
@RustyRogers6 жыл бұрын
A new dimension to a beloved album.
@DelightLovesMovies11 ай бұрын
I really love beautiful music like that.
@theflyingscotsman99023 жыл бұрын
Beautiful moving music !!!!
@EduardoDobay4 жыл бұрын
If I could live inside a musical piece, it'd probably be this one
@starry20064 жыл бұрын
Much of it seems to move from one idea to another constantly, which is like me.
The concert is a masterpiece and tells a lot about the formal stupidity of "only classical music" lovers, who labelled Keith Emerson as an unworthy rock musician.
@morbidmanmusic7 ай бұрын
depends on how deep you analyze it. I am a rock musician who listened to this piece thousands of times. AND LOVED IT~! And because of it and Keith and some other prog greats, learned to really love and play classical music, as well as rock on Keys and many other things. I think they could make a case pretty easilly on the composition side, And where keith was a good rock player, there are so many classical cats the crush his skills from that perspective. But no, they don't play upside down or tip hammonds over on themselves and play...
@brookhall8957 Жыл бұрын
It's been forever since I was in 7th grade music class and back then I was a trumphet player, looking at this is both awe and stroke inducing from how much went into this. *bringing up music because reading sheet music clearly.
@user-cg8zv7bu6z6 ай бұрын
Questi brani da opera le sapeva fare solo lui.😢
@joannefolkins47845 жыл бұрын
That is one fantastically, wonderfully complicated piece: the time and key changes are phenomenal. I loved it when I first heard it on vinyl. If only I had this video to show my advanced music students before I retired. Thank you.
@herbertwells87573 жыл бұрын
I think you mean “had had”. What would this have demonstrated to your “advanced students” that a piano concerto by a reputable twentieth-century composer could not have?
@shiroumxm2052 Жыл бұрын
@@herbertwells8757 prohead are like that.. they say Emerson was the greatest ever jeje
@Aquatarkus96 Жыл бұрын
@@herbertwells8757 Emerson is as reputable as any other composer. He was sadly snubbed by the establishment. Get out of your ivory tower.
@Gigi2647 Жыл бұрын
Vero genio!!!
@stephenjablonsky19418 ай бұрын
This is a hodge hodge of interesting moments. Keith was certainly a talented fellow but it is very hard to compose music that has integral logic from beginning to end. A quodlibet of various styles like this is hard to find and this almost works. It doesn't hang together but it is never boring.
@jimjosemusic53258 ай бұрын
I disagree,.. but not from a classical point of view. He is writing classical music here, but in the tradition of the Prog genre he was part of. Prog hodgepodges by definition - and this is a fantastic composition and hangs together in the language of it’s context.
@stephenjablonsky19418 ай бұрын
I gave you my perspective as a classical composer. Both of us may be correct because we are coming from two different places.@@jimjosemusic5325
@polkmusic Жыл бұрын
Such an awesome piece.
@eternalcolonel8 ай бұрын
And remember, this wasn't Emerson's first venture into classical composing. That would be "Five Bridges Suite", some eight years earlier.
@diegosatori57185 жыл бұрын
This is gold
@herbertwells87573 жыл бұрын
It’s dross.
@robertjewell97275 жыл бұрын
Brilliance a beautiful brightness.
@jazzenthusiast43535 жыл бұрын
so beautiful
@Raikaska2 жыл бұрын
THIS IS AMAZING! I love ittt!
@enriqueormenovillafuerte5791 Жыл бұрын
Great Piece!!!i got the album!!!❤
@IvorPresents3 ай бұрын
Bravo
@3michael9196 ай бұрын
I was at a music festival in the '70s where a lot of the young players had been hired to tour this piece with Keith Emerson-they were supposed to play big rock stadiums. I was hoping it would be a big hit, but I'm guessing it wasn't!
@adrianoaugusto36506 жыл бұрын
just amazing
@davidbentley1452 жыл бұрын
Truly amazing...Ty for this
@user-nn1we3oc2u4 ай бұрын
Great! Sometimes it sounds a little bit like Bèla Bartok, whom I also admirate and by whom he was also influenced...great music!
@MassimoBucciMusicista5 жыл бұрын
Wow ! Thank you!
@albertoroquecorelli992 жыл бұрын
THANKS TO SHARE!!!!
@joselares90315 жыл бұрын
Stunning Particella...¡¡¡ YEAH...
@seongmin_choi11233 жыл бұрын
Grate!! This is 21th new beethoven!
@antoniolucifora9122 жыл бұрын
Semplicemente Geniale
@Emiliasooo2 жыл бұрын
Suena a que e inspiró muchisimo de Alberto Ginastera, sus estilos son casi idénticos. Esta es una gran obra.
@Emiliasooo Жыл бұрын
También suena mucho a Germaine Tailleferre
@mauriciograna80836 жыл бұрын
The great Emerson!!
@davcar236 жыл бұрын
Wow very cool upload. Thx
@thomasgunther182 жыл бұрын
Noch nie gehört-Dachte , dass es das nicht gebe.Emerson war bester Synthesizer-Keyboarder.
@thomasgunther182 жыл бұрын
Das ist schon typisch Emerson.
@garycitro16743 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks!
@brucemoeller Жыл бұрын
This is the sad day....anniversary of when Keith pulled the trigger. Very sad. He was a progidy and I don't believe anyone had what he had..... RIP. The torment is over.
@BrainiacFingers3 жыл бұрын
The music at Figure 45 - poco più mosso - could easily pass for Aaron Copland, no questions asked. I've loved this concerto since I was 16 , when I bought Works vol 1 on the day of its release. As I got a bit older and got to hear more diverse music, I could detect a slice of Copland in it, a pinch of Bartok, a sprinkling of Rachmaninov, a drop of Gershwin, and a smidgen of Bach but, ultimately, the main ingredient is the unique musical personality of the late, great Keith Emerson. Anyone know where I can obtain a copy of this score?
@ZAWARUD003 жыл бұрын
There is also a bit of Stravinsky IMHO
@danielsaal91383 жыл бұрын
throw in a little Bernstein alongside the Gershwin. Also reference to baroque period at around minute 5. was thinking the same thing you wrote.
@grahamgisby2 жыл бұрын
Many touches of Darius Milhaud.
@martinianotanoni3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for this!
@derby25102 жыл бұрын
It’s not a great piano concerto, but it’s fun to listen to and is a lot better than many concertos by “reputable” 20th century composers, as one silly musical elitist below put it. There’s plenty to nit-pick about it, but is it crossover garbage? Not at all.
@assodispade7864 жыл бұрын
If Bartók and Ginastera had a child, he would be like this.
@starry20063 жыл бұрын
I think there's many more influences than that.
@epitimaios Жыл бұрын
Not at all bad!! I wonder how it could happen, that only today (while searching for Hang on to a Dream) I discovered this composition.
@georgeadams82309 ай бұрын
I thought it was interesting that when Leonard Bernstein heard it and Greg Lake asked him what he thought of it he said it reminds him of grandma moses.
@kurtv49462 жыл бұрын
Not Rachmaninoff or Prokofiev but for a rock musician, pretty damn amazing.
@igorsandorov88732 жыл бұрын
There is rachmaninoff and prokofiev influence heard
@bennyksmusicalworld2 жыл бұрын
I hear lots of Copland and Elgar influences!
@maximilianodemaria7566 Жыл бұрын
Enjoy in JBL HEADPHONE
@dicksterling73462 жыл бұрын
Anyone know of a video of this performance - would love to watch Keith's fingers all over the keyboard!
@daphnelawless919411 ай бұрын
The video of ELP at Olympic Stadium Montreal in 1977 (with orchestra) features the Third Movement (including Carl Palmer on percussion)
@Ruda-n4h5 ай бұрын
@@daphnelawless9194 There's also Jeffrey Biegel doing it, with Keith in attendance on You Tube.
@E_M_C_P5 ай бұрын
An impressive work, had good usage of modes and the structures we can find in Tarkus or Trilogy, also influence of bartok (and somehow geshwin?) alike nowadays Japan classic music or concert band music. But a pity that he seemed to be parsimonious to use percussion......and some instrumental problems he made due to his unfamiliarity to some instruments, also lack of details(maybe because he don't know how to express.) Anyway, though not as impressive as his progressive rock pieces, he tried his best as he had fewer knowledge of traditional statements or strict structures. Love Keith love ELP❤
@craigfelde8826 жыл бұрын
Where did you get the score? I bought the two piano version, but this is magnificent!
@conductorespinal3 жыл бұрын
Where did you buy it? I want it!
@craigfelde8823 жыл бұрын
@@conductorespinal Theodore Presser Music in NY, NY
@morbidmanmusic7 ай бұрын
I had this in book form as a 15 year old. I'd stare at it and listen in awe before I even knew how to read it.
@blsharpley5 жыл бұрын
16:32 "FREEBIRD!!!!"
@XanAxDdu5 жыл бұрын
or firebird?
@danieleveroni72423 ай бұрын
Grande concerto di un genio snobbato dai soliti monopolisti della cultura musicale mondiale prevenuti e invidiosi.
@nicolascoxon85642 жыл бұрын
Just to prove that he could write a concerto. As a composer/arranger myself, he did a fine job of orchestration, not something that many get right. I wonder if he had any training in orchestral writing?
@EWA8755 Жыл бұрын
He didn't. He was helped by the Philharmonic's conductor. Fact Keith had no formal training. Some local piano teachers when he was young. But learned to sight read and, obviously, write
@bowiedj4 жыл бұрын
How can we get the full score? Any publishers put it on sale?
@bowiedj4 жыл бұрын
@@AA-dk3er Issuu... how do get access to this? thanks
@JVsMusicalSoundscapes4 жыл бұрын
Would you have the pdf... thanks in advance if you do. Wonderful to listen and watch.
@JVsMusicalSoundscapes3 жыл бұрын
@@sylvainjazz unfortunately, downloads are (no longer?) allowed. How did you get it on here? Thanks.
@Tom_2392 жыл бұрын
8va notation missing at 15:06. It is a beautifully written score though.
@richgoranson2439 Жыл бұрын
Is this written in Emerson's hand, Godfrey Salmon's, or someone else's?
@hubbsllc3 жыл бұрын
12:56 A-ha, that's how I *thought* it must have been written out. That's not a tempo or time signature change.
@michaelsemenov69353 жыл бұрын
where did you get a score???
@gustavol_5 жыл бұрын
Where can I buy the score?
@XanAxDdu5 жыл бұрын
hi, if you mean if the book is on for example on amazon i think not. the cd instead is emerson lake and palmer works vol 1 black cover
@XanAxDdu5 жыл бұрын
the album contains another fantastic track to look for, Pirates
@markanderson38705 жыл бұрын
No 1. Was there a No. 2?
@flyurway4 жыл бұрын
Seems to me he did start a 2nd and it was lost in a fire at a cottage he rented. I assume he redid what was lost but never finished it maybe?
@markanderson38704 жыл бұрын
@@flyurway well I guess losing it in a cottage fire is better than "my dog ate it".
@flyurway4 жыл бұрын
@@markanderson3870 Lol! Now that I think about it, it may have been this one that burned in the fire and got redone.
@starry20064 жыл бұрын
@@AA-dk3er He apparently did have plans for one from at least 1999-2001 but nothing appeared and I guess no sketches survived. I suppose calling the first one No1 suggested he had ambitions for more even in the 70s.