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WAY more difficult. If you've got octaves, anyone can play the Tchaikowsky. Even me.
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hey that's cool! you got a russian keyboard or you just copypasted?
The first concerto is more playable than the second, because it was Siloti, I think, who edited it and made it more pianistic. I read somewhere that those famous opening chords aren't even in the first edition.
i think in Tchaik is more difficult to get a good sound, it's finer, and clearer. Rachmaninoff is more noisy.
What edition is that? Have to get it.
I actually downloaded it off the internet many years ago, but I don't remember where I got it. I know that someone even recorded the original edition. It was most likely Jerome Lowenthal, but I cannot be absolutely sure.
So i guess u have the pdf version?! Could you post it here on the forum? Is that somehow possible? I would be really (really!) interested in seeing the original version!edit: by the way, i'm pretty sure that siloti edited the first concerto and that it's this version everyone plays nowadays. Never heard of Rubinstein editing it.
Actually, yeah, you are right that Siloti edited this concerto also. I thought that Nikolai Rubinstein edited it because he had so many problems with it, many of which were voiced to Tchaikovsky. See here.I will look around my hard drives for the pdf. I am not sure I even have it anymore.
I do like Rubinstein's compositions as a general rule, but he does have the reputation for being rather old fashioned and inclined to use procrastination against the pioneer.
You are confusing Nikolai Rubinstein with Anton Rubinstein, his brother. Nikolai was not known as being a composer, but solely a pianist.
Actually I wasn't but I did mean Anton. I did not read your detail carefully enough, please forgive me!On a side note, though he did not compose as much as his brother, Nikolai was regarded as a competent composer of his time. I have never been able to access any of his scores, so I cannot comment from 1st hand experience.
I wonder if anyone in this forum takes your comments even a little bit seriously. You've kind of ruined it for yourself with your recordings.
Topic: Piano concertos: Rachmaninov Vs. Tchaikovsky 