
I stood up and asked, “Well?” Then a torrent poured from Nikolay Grigoryevich’s mouth, gentle at first, then more and more growing into the sound of a Jupiter Tonana. He seemed to be saying: “My friend, how can I speak of detail when the whole thing is antipathetic?” I fortified myself with patience and played through to the end. R’s eloquent silence was of the greatest significance. The quote about Tchaikovsky’s account of the response to the piece from the Wikipedia article is abbreviated below: Adaptive_ocr true Addeddate 11:37:04 Betterpdf true Bookreader-defaults mode/1up Boxid IA1599602 Catalog_time 461 Country US Disccount 1 External-identifierĬlassical Id lp_piano-concerto-no-1-in-b-flat-minor-op-23_pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-victor-schiler-er Identifier lp_piano-concerto-no-1-in-b-flat-minor-op-23_pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-victor-schiler-er Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t84j8dj5b Lineage Technics SL1200MK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Original-ppi 1200 Pages 5 Pdf_module_version 0.0.10 Ppi 600 Ripping_date 20191007031647 Ripping_operator Ripping_scanner archivelp-rip-cebu09 Ripping_software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2.34lp Ripping_time 4021 Scandate 20190918113652 Scanner archivelp-cebu01 Scanningcenter cebu Software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2.Tchaikovsky’s desired pianist here, Nikolai Rubinstein, heavily criticized the piece, which was perhaps the reason it was revised and edited after that first version in 1875 (first performed on Octoin Boston with Hans von Bülow, to whom the piece was ultimately dedicated, at the keys, which was a huge success with the audience, to the point that he played the finale again, but not so warmly received by critics) until its final version in 1888.
