Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rubinstein)

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The Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70, by Anton Rubinstein is a Romantic concerto that was once highly esteemed and was in the repertoire of the Russian and Polish piano virtuosos Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Anton Rubinstein, himself a renowned pianist, left five numbered piano concertos. (He wrote three earlier piano concertos; two were lost and the third was transformed into Octet, Op. 9.) Rubinstein composed the Fourth Concerto in 1864. He published two revisions of it and then a final revision in 1872. He dedicated the concerto to the violinist Ferdinand David.

Movements

The concerto is in three movements:

Moderato assai
Andante
Allegro

Selected discography

Josef Hofmann's reading of this concerto is generally considered as a definitive rendition.
Xaver Scharwenka's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor and Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor performed by Marc-André Hamelin with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern (Hyperion 67508)
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor performed by Joseph Moog with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz conducted by Nicholas Milton (Onyx 4089)

References

Notes

Sources

Banowetz, Joseph (1992). Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 (CD). Naxos Records (Marco Polo). 8.223382.
Barilier, Étienne; Watson, Isabelle (2012). Joseph Moog - Rubinstein & Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos (CD). Onyx Classics. ONYX 4089.
Barfoot, Terry (October 2005). "Review: Rubinstein & Scharwenka: Piano Concertos". Musicweb International. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
Nicholas, Jeremy (2005). Rubinstein & Scharwenka: Piano Concertos (PDF) (CD). Hyperion Records. CDA67508.
Taylor, Philip S. (2007). Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34871-5.

External links

Piano Concerto No. 4: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
"Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, I. Moderato assai. Performed by Marc-André Hamelin, live in Moscow". YouTube. 2012-12-15. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.
"Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, II. Andante. Performed by Marc-André Hamelin, live in Moscow". YouTube. 2012-12-15. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.
"Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4, III. Allegro. Performed by Marc-André Hamelin, live in Moscow". YouTube. 2012-12-15. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.

Anton Rubinstein

List of compositions

Operas

Dmitry Donskoy (1852)
Fomka the Fool (1853)
Die Kinder der Heide (1861)
Feramors (1863)
Der Thurm zu Babel (1870)
The Demon (1871)
Die Maccabäer (1875)
Néron (1879)
The Merchant Kalashnikov (1880)
Moses (1892)
Christus (1895)

Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 in F major, Op. 40 (1849 or 1850)
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 42 (1851, rev. 1863, 1880)
Symphony No. 3 in A major, Op. 56 (1854-55)
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 95 (1874)
Symphony No. 5 in G minor, Op. 107 (1880)
Symphony No. 6 in A minor, Op. 111 (1886)

Concertante

Piano

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 25 (1850)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 35 (1851)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in G major, Op. 45 (1853-4)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 (1864)
Fantasy in C major, Op. 84 (orig. for pf solo, 1869; arr. pf and orch, 1880)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 94 (1874)
Caprice Russe, in C minor, Op. 102 (1878?)
Konzertstück in A flat major, Op. 113 (1889)

Violin	Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 46 Romance et caprice, Op. 86

Cello	Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 65 Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 96