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The Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 (BV 247), by Ferruccio Busoni, is one of the largest works ever written in this genre. The concerto lasts around 70 minutes and is in five movements; in the final movement a male chorus sings words from the final scene of the verse drama ''Aladdin'' by Adam Oehlenschläger, who also wrote the words of one of the Danish national anthems.〔(''Der er et yndigt land'' ).〕 It seems to have been Beethoven who first included a chorus in a concerted work with piano and orchestra, in his ''Choral Fantasy'', Op. 80 of 1808;〔Coincidentally, the same year in which Oehlenschläger published the German edition of ''Aladdin''.〕 since then only a handful of works have been scored for similar forces, including Daniel Steibelt's Piano Concerto No. 8 (1st performed March 16, 1820, in Saint Petersburg)〔. Schonberg reserves his greatest ire for Steibelt as a purveyor of "obvious fakery () a charlatan with perhaps a touch of genius." 〕 and the Piano Concerto No. 6, Op. 192 (1858) by Henri Herz〔Henri Herz: (List of Herz's works ) at Gottschalk.fr. (In French). Retrieved 2 May 2015.〕 which also have a choral finale. Busoni intended to dedicate the concerto to his friend William Dayas, but he died in 1903.〔Deaville, James: “Dayas, William Humphreys.” (Oxford Music Online. ) (Link requires subscription.)〕 His daughter Karin Dayas gave the first American performance of the concerto in 1932. The first performance of the concerto took place in the Beethoven-Saal, Berlin, Germany on November 10, 1904, at one of Busoni's own concerts of modern music. Busoni was the soloist, with Karl Muck conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Choir of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche). The reviews were decidedly mixed, some being filled with outright hostility or derision. The century following its premiere has seen relatively few performances, owing to the large orchestration, complex musical texture, the use of a male chorus, and the staggering demands put on the soloist. ==Movements== Although the five movements are laid out separately in the score, Busoni stated that the concerto should be played as a continuous whole, without breaks. :I. Prologo e Introito: Allegro, dolce e solenne :II. Pezzo giocoso :III. Pezzo serioso: ::Introductio: Andante sostenuto ::Prima pars: Andante, quasi adagio ::Altera pars: Sommessamente ::Ultima pars: a tempo :IV. All'Italiana: Tarantella: Vivace; In un tempo :V. Cantico: Largamente (with chorus) The first movement, marked "Prologo e introito" is a little over fifteen minutes long on average, and is a broad Allegro movement which features a clangorous piano part. The second movement, a kind of Scherzo, is mostly a light-fingered affair for the piano that makes use of "Italianate" rhythms and melodic material, even if the melodies are more evocative of Italian popular music than actual quotations from indigenous Italian folk music. The third and longest movement is the "Pezzo serioso", a massive meditation and exploration in four parts in the key of D flat major which has a central climax that is once again pianistically challenging and brilliantly scored for both the piano and the orchestra. The fourth movement "All' Italiana", is perhaps the most variegated in its use of the orchestra, with a terrifically virtuosic piano part, arguably more difficult than anything that has come before it in the work. There are also two cadenzas to this movement – one, included in the printed score; the other, an insert in the two-piano score that is an amplification of the one printed in the two-piano edition. The final movement, "Cantico" with male chorus, brings full circle many themes that have been heard earlier in the work. The words sung by the chorus are from the final scene of Oehlenschläger's verse drama ''Aladdin''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piano Concerto (Busoni)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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