When a Hollywood Composer is Asked to Write Like Rachmaninoff - 'Warsaw Concerto' #piano #kawai

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Family Piano Co's Max performs an excerpt of Richard Addinsell's "Warsaw Concerto" written for the 1941 British wartime film "Dangerous Moonlight" which tells the story of Polish airforce pilots in their heroic struggle against the invading German army in 1939. The producers of this film originally were hoping for Rachmaninoff himself to write the film score for this movie but he turned down the commission.

The concerto is written in imitation of the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff. It initiated a trend for similar short piano concertos in the Romantic style, which have been dubbed "tabloid concertos", or "Denham concertos" (the latter term coined by Steve Race).

This piece is both vividly beautiful and haunting with powerful, memorable melodies, lush harmonic progressions, and demanding virtuosity.
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Rach 2, 1st movement, 2nd theme, second half

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This piece is just so gorgeous. I would love to play this concerto! Is it hard?

JacobGreer