Listeners' comments:
"...the [main] theme sounds absolutely epic. I think this almost reaches the level of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concert No. 2 "
“...this equals if not beats the Saint-Saëns G-Minor Piano Concerto."
"...probably one of the best "romantic" piano concertos of the XXIst century..."
" I was blown away by your piano concerto. The composition is brilliant! "
" This is so amazing I only realized my jaw had dropped five minutes after the concerto started. "
" This is really great! ....the sweeping romantic melodies are just breathtaking...a really great listen. "
" I love the orchestration and the virtuosic piano passages. +5 "
" Beautiful harmonies...The overall energy of the [last] movement is fantastic!"
" I was so enthralled by the opening movement that I just listened to the whole piece at once. "
" A masterpiece. "
" OMG!!! did you compose this??! It completely amazed me from the first seconds. It's like a Rachmaninoff concerto, but it's still your style, your creation. I loved it. Thank you"
" I could listen to it 100 times."
"...this sounds simply brilliant. "
"...I'm just amazed! Beautiful sir! well done! "
"...let me thank you for this piece. "
" I have to say I love your piano concerto!"
" A masterpiece! - beautiful work!"
" It's a great concerto. BRAVOOOOOOOOOOO!!! "
" Beautiful!! Bravissimo!! "
" Your concerto is awesome!! "
" This is really awesome! "
" Wow!! Just Wow!! Two thumbs up!! "
"...let me thank you for this piece. "
I wrote two piano concertos in 2011 and 2013 to fulfill a promise I made to myself as a young piano student that I would write a piano concerto and then premiere it much in the same way Rachmaninoff did with his 2nd, my intention being to launch a career as a composer, pianist, & conductor. Well, fate had other plans---a severe finger injury grounded me as a pianist at 19 and I never wrote that concerto. The dream eventually faded, though it apparently had been lying dormant somewhere underneath my psyche in the intervening decades. In the meantime, to keep my music skills alive and because I enjoyed it immensely I read orchestral scores as leisure reading--analyzing how great composers achieved the sounds they were after; the different combinations of instruments they used. Then one day a few years ago an innocuous tune just popped into my mind. The old dream bubbling beneath the surface of my consciousness suddenly surfaced and I finally committed myself to writing that piano concerto, which became the No.1 in F# Minor Opus 1. Although the reception was enthusiastic I later came to realize that the Concerto No.1 wasn't the concerto I had always wanted to write. The one you are listening to is that concerto.
http://youtu.be/jjP0_cP8TA8
