Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, 28th N… Read Full Bio ↴Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, 28th November 1829 – 20th November 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival to Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the greatest keyboard virtuosi.

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01Melody In F

026 Soirées à Saint-Petersbourg, Op. 44 No. 3: Preghiera

03Melodie In F

04Melody in F major, Op. 3, no. 1

0512 Songs, Op. 48: No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel) (arr. J. Lloyd Webber for 2 cellos and piano)

06Rubinstein / Arr. Popper: Melody in F Major, Op. 3 No. 1

072 Melodies, Op. 3: Melodie in F Major

08Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70: II. Andante

Anton Rubinstein

09Melody in F, Op. 3-1 - Jorg Demus [Piano]

10Melody In F Op. 3 No. 1

11Le bal, Op. 14: No. 3a, Contredanse. Introduction

12Caprice Russe (Russian Capriccio), Op. 102

132 Melodies, Op. 3: Melody No. 1 in F major

14Melodie in F-Dur - Gemafrei - Piano Version

152 Mélodies, Op. 3: No. 1 in F Major, Moderato assai

16No. 2 Aubade in E flat major

172 Mélodies, Op.3: II. Andante (Arr. for Cello and Piano)

18Ballet Music

19Kamennïy-Ostrov (Rocky Island), Portraits (24) For Piano, Op. 10

20Largo - Allegro con fuoco

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Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor Op. 70: II. Andante
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Larwsk hayann

3y↑55

Never heard this masterpiece before. Actually, Dostoiévski introduced me Rubistein, and I am speechless.

Mike Doody

2y↑17

same.. he mentions his name in Crime & Punishment. glad he did.

Yuri Mascarenhas

2y↑5

I second that

Felipe Vencato

2y↑6

Também descobri Rubinstein ao ler crime e castigo de Dostoievski

Ricardo L Živko

2y↑8

Que bom ver que todos nós estamos escutando música boa graças a Dostoiévski e graças a nossa curiosidade.

Mariusz Asiesiukiewicz

1y↑1

me too

Shelle

36w

Великий Рубинштейн! 💎
Золотые руки 🙌🏼, бриллиантовый слух 🧏🏻

TheStressBus

6y↑53

0:00 Moderato Assai
12:08 Andante
22:00 Allegro

Гузель Валеева

52w↑3

Какое великолепие мощи в каждой частичке этого концерта!

Gregg Michalak

5y↑44

A sensational performance of a long -forgotten masterpiece

pianomanhere

3y↑3

I wholeheartedly second this opinion. My God what a breathtaking performance this is, and the very embodiment of expressive virtuosity, greater than mere key-pounding bravado.

MARK Smith

2y↑8

This piece was suggested when I listened to a Scharwenka concerto. There's just no comparison. This is masterful writing, both pianistically and as composition.

Tancred De Hauteville

34w

I agree - this piece is musically much higher quality.

LoCoZappers

5y↑65

You can definitely tell rachmaninoff was inspired by Rubinstein...you can hear the sheer percussivness like rachmaninoff occasionally does, and the harmony as well. Rubinstein is definitely a composer of notoriety.

Gracie Oshannessy

5y↑11

Also, the intro is very Tchaikovsky-esque I think Tchaikovsky took some inspiration from rubenstein

Patti S

5y↑16

@Gracie Oshannessy Tchaikovsky studied composition with Rubinstein.

Gracie Oshannessy

5y↑5

@Patti S Ah yes that makes sense haha

Gracie Oshannessy

5y↑5

@Patti S also can you give me a source for that? I'm doing an assignment on Tchaikovsky

KNIAZIGOR

4y↑2

@Gracie Oshannessy complètement d'accord !

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John Shortland

32w↑2

I came here after hearing how Rubinstein played at my ancestral cousin's home one evening. They blew out the candles, opened the doors and windows and sat in darkness with the scents of an English summer and moonlight pouring in. It must have been a mind-bowing experience. I'm so glad that I too, have now discovered him.

Aaron

5y↑12

2:35 One of the most wonderful melodies I've ever heard in a piano concerto, I can see why Rubinstein was so admired by his peers. Def in my top 3 fav piano concertos.

Owen Gette

3y↑20

23:08 that passage is just so POWERFUL

Charles Blanchard

4y↑5

Still one of my favorites, after years. The notes by Robert Cummings are excellent. Wish we had some better educated music critics these days.

Женя Угрюмов

4y↑7

The marvelous musical composition. This is really famous concerto. Anton Rubinstein are such gifted and disordinary composer. By the way, I listened this concerto with pleasure.

Antonio Mank

2y↑3

Совсем недавно удалось услышать этот шедевр в зале Санкт-Петербургской филармонии. Как мне сказали люди, которые захватили период в 50, что этот концерт никогда не исполняли.

Меня все восхищало и восхищает, когда русскую музыку исполняют великие мастера Европы. Тогда в полной мере ощущаешь забытую гармонию мира и согласия в нашем мире.

Acid

5y↑35

Rubinstein's music was so great. Can someone tell me why he's not more famous ? Maybe not "Beethoven famous" but at least "Scriabine famous" ?

Caleb Hu

5y↑31

He used to be extremely famous and this work was played with the frequency that Rach's 2nd is today. I'm not sure why it has fallen out of public favor.

John Wesley SmithGate

5y↑23

Because as xlnt as he was in his craft,an inspired conventional academic Pianist/composer for sure,his style was for the most part highly evocative and derivative of others.Specifically Beethoven ,Liszt,Chopin,Brahms possibly as well.he did not have the creative genius or inspired individuality of those men.He had a good melodic gift,but not on the order of those men either.Having said that,he had his own stylistic stamps that inspired others like Rachmaninoff etc..Finally,the rise of Tchaikovsky,swamped his Composing star.But certainly his work deserves performance.My two cents.

Acid

5y↑4

@John Wesley SmithGate Thank you for enlightening me. Bless you

Acid

5y↑6

@Caleb Hu I see. I was kind of shocked by the current lack of popularity of his music but when we look deep in it, people like Paderewski, Litolff or Hiller don't get a great amount of attention nowadays neither. Kind of sad but hey, that's life...

Acid

5y↑3

@JohnWesleySmithGate @CalebHu You guys are awesome btw, thank you again.

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Roger Nortman

4y↑10

This is the most influential piece in that it opened the door to my deriving at least, if not MORE pleasure from lesser-known composers' symphonies and concerti than from those of the standard repertoire.

RobertIsraelMusic

2y↑1

@Bartje Bartmans–Thank you so much for posting this electrifying performance of Anton Rubinstein's finest piano concerto. I had forgotten all about this Raymond Lewenthal recording, and in truth, simply did not realize decades ago what a spectacular interpretation this one is, truly. The real beauty here is that one may listen to Josef Hofmann's recording, or Shura Cherkassky's, and Lewenthal's as well, but each one is so utterly unique as to defy selecting a favorite from among them. Thank you, once again...wow!!!

Ljiljana Stanić

40w↑1

Fantastically beautiful!

HEDI ENGHELBERG

4y↑6

Refreshing, powerfully, the starting point, a spring of many famous concertos, rapsodies and pieces of the 19th century and early 20th

Oluwaseun Owoaje

2y↑2

Lord have mercy! This is too awesome.

Christopher Johnson

1y↑2

It was released on CD in 1999 by Elan Recordings (82284) on a two-disc set called "Raymond Lewenthal: The Concerto Recordings".

Fulvio Polce

5y↑8

I grandi concerti dimenticati dai posteri....
Rubinstein nella piena maturità artistica. Tchaikowsky ne sarà parecchio debitore...
Un plauso a Bartje per questo stupendo post.

KNIAZIGOR

6y↑13

Very beautiful concerto, as unfairly forgotten as that of Moszkowski (opus 59)
When will we see brave pianists impose these works on their impresarios and, beyond, on the general public?

KNIAZIGOR

bill Bloggs fantastic interpretation too !

Tancred De Hauteville

2y↑6

Strange forgotten masterpiece. To me it sounds like gothic horror in musical form, perhaps that's why it hasn't been as popular as it might have deserved.

Bartje Bartmans

2y↑3

But it was VERY popular until beginning WWI

BoZZigmupp

@Bartje Bartmans how

Bartje Bartmans

2y↑4

@BoZZigmupp It was in the repertoire of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninov and Josef Hofmann, three of the Olympians of the piano in the first half of the 20th Century. It has been recorded by pianists of the stature of Grigory Ginsburg, Friedrich Wuhrer, Oscar Levant and Raymond Lewenthal. Rubinstein was extremely popular in the salons of those days. If you read the comments here you will have seen the one about Dostoevsky.

굿훅국훗훅굿훗국

2y↑2

I recently learned this concerto and realised third movement is technically harder than first one.

KNIAZIGOR

7y↑10

Très beau concerto, aussi injustement oublié que celui de Moszkowski (opus 59)
Quand verra-t-on des pianistes courageux imposer ces œuvres à leurs impresarii et, au delà, au grand public ?

Gail Starr

5y↑1

KNIAZIGOR je suis tout à fait d’accord! Je crois que le problème peut être parce que les dirigeants d’orchestres doivent assurer le vente de billets. On court des risques si l’on a des monceaux qui ne sont pas déjà “connus” par le public.

Павел Габдрахманов

47w

Замечательный концерт! Ничем не хуже концерта Чайковского, но концерт Петруши уже навяз у всех в зубах и чуть ли не из утюга звучит, а концерт Антона Рубинштейна почти неизвестен! И почему так?

Adalberto Gomes dos Santos

3y↑3

Vibrante e Majestoso!

Harry Andruschak

8y↑10

PRIMUM. Thank you for uploading this gem that I have not heard before. WOW!

David Edwin Honeywill

5y↑8

This was on the flip side of a recording of Tchaikovsky concerto no1 i had in 1958..loved the Tchaikovsky and enjoyed the Rubinstein....remember them very well

Joshua Bechtel

41w↑1

The Andante! ❤😊🥰

Александр Ярков

3y↑7

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance grandiose genial music concerto

Roger Nortman

5y↑10

When I purchased Oscar Levant's recording, as a kid, back around 1957, I was so emotionally overwhelmed that I made a life's goal to hear the symphonic works of unduly discarded Romantic composers, including, among many others, Raff, Gade, Reinecke. Not to be immodest, I have been influential in that endeavor.

Jesús Ruiz

3y↑4

A composer much mocked by The Five, but really a good one.

Jairo Antonio Fictorie Jovel

37w↑1

Anton Rubinstein era un tipazazazo de primer nivel

monteverdi1567

4y↑2

Wow! Thank you for this!

TJFNYC212

6y↑6

I had the privilege of hearing Shura Cherkassky play this concerto with the NY Phil ... what a treat... Rubenstein was his piano grandfather... :)

Gail Starr

TJFNYC212 Wow! I didn’t know that Cherksssky studied with him! Thanks!

Tamer

1y↑1

@Gail Starr cherkassky studied with hofmann who studied with rubinstein

Gail Starr

@Tamer Thank you!

Vaughan Osgan

42w↑1

This music could be a companion piece from Dostoyevsy;s NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Facundo Vázquez

5y↑20

11:45 BADASS ending

Phil Homes

7y↑6

If anyone can make the pompous Anton Rubinstein sound good it's the great Ray Lewenthal. This is perhaps Rubinstein's best piece.

Sean Fogarty

4y↑1

I think it'd be hard to make his other concertos sound good, but this one is the exception - this is a masterpiece in my eyes and it doesn't take much for it to sound brilliant.

Pretty mistifying that a usually sub par composer wrote such a great piece. It's probably the fact that it's much more paired back formally than his other works.

meyerbeer13

3y↑1

The 5th is great too -- suck it up hated!

EFA H

2y↑4

The name of Anton Rubinstien has appeared to me on the middle of the famous novel “the crime and the punishment “ fortunately thats why I’m here

Snakeybakey

Same

Scriabinist

1:08 Sounds like Rachmaninoff got some inspiration for his 3rd Concerto Cadenza

Mike Daniels

3y↑3

Tony Ruby, wasn't he the one who panned Tchaikovsky's No1 B-flat minor opus dedicated to him in the first place?

Bartje Bartmans

3y↑2

That was Nikolai Rubinstein, not Anton. Nikolai was his younger brother.

Skylex Boldt

2y↑2

He's clearly influenced by Felix Mendelssohn!!!

TGP

2y↑2

Epic

Christian Wouters

2y↑3

Much better than the 2 Liszt concertos

bloodgrss

2y↑2

Strange judgement; aside from being critically and musically incorrect, cream rises to the top. There's a reason Liszt's concertos get hundreds of performances to every one of Rubinstein...

Rawvision

2y↑1

@Sorry, but you need an ear transplant. There is a reason Liszt's concertos have lived on, and history hasn't been as kind to Rubinstein's. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy Rubinstein's 1st and 4th concertos, but they are not great music.

bloodgrss

@Rawvision Well said...

Snakeybakey

@bloodgrss & @Rawvision Gentlemen! the Fella is entitled to his opinion. I happen to think of Liszt as the greatest, but just because Christian is in the minority doesn't mean he is wrong. Every ear is different.

MARK Smith

Liszt may be as overrated as Rubinstein is underrated, but Liszt is still better.

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I'm ze B033

1y↑2

Why!? just why so underated!?

MrDavide914

5y↑2

I definitely like it

Mestres da Técnica Vocal - Ian Goncalves

7y↑7

EPIC

Lua Bleah

6y↑1

ikr

Roger Nortman

3y↑5

How could he write as great a concerto as rgis and then one as atrocious as the 5th????

dejuren

Yea, very inconsistent quality..

David Edwin Honeywill

51w

Wish i could get hold of the Dekka recording...

SS S

3y↑2

Sounds a bit like Harry Potter dark moments

violamateo

Uhm...that would be the other way around.

Anna Baghdasaryan

7y↑3

Please help me to find these notes!!!!

Un musicos

In free score you can find this score for free

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Vladimir Horowitz

4y↑3

Oh..thank you..

PieInTheSky

1y↑2

Ear candy

Mohammad Hamzah IDRIS

5y↑2

Rachmaninoff Variation after corelli

Bla Bla

3y↑3

29:41

vesteel

6y↑48

1:17 Rach 3 cadenza lol

Acid

5y↑10

Carl Schultzbergerstein Could have answered without calling him stupid. Maybe he's about to get a nobel prize in astrophysics, who knows ? lol jk

johnny DaMusician

6y↑3

That Raymond Lewenthall is able to make this the bst of he Rubinstein concerti is moe a testament tohis musicality . scar Levant does not make anything memorable out f this music .I'd like to see Rubinstein's programmes . Ive seen Godowsky, Lhevinnes many othrs . What awful music beloved of their times did thet play and I assume enjoy , love or admire too. Moscheles and Moskowsky deserve more listens so little else is for me . I cant find a moment in al this man's other 4 concerti that are not low dross. The cello concerto bores on her first hearing the vioin concerto too . Sometimes if a personality is large but different it omes later .Boulez and Webern, Lutoslawsky Wuorinen took 15 years but when their message hit me it changed my life . i compose every minute of the day I dont eat , work , read !

Y Pinhasi

15:32

Caleb Hu

4y↑4

10:30

Gen. Vyktoria Kratek

3y↑4

The other two movements aren't needed

Paul Sahara

2y↑3

Too many notes.

Rawvision

2y↑1

@Paul Sahara the same can be said about 90% of Rubinstein's music, but sometimes he can strike a moment of pure inspiration. His opera The Demon is a good example. His 1st & 4th piano concertos have nice moments, his piano sonatas are very good and also his piano etudes. But most of his music is just notes on paper for no reason whatsoever. There are other neglected 19th century composers much more worthy of attention.