RANKED #32 IN TOP TEN LISTS OF "GREATEST PIANO CONCERTOS OF ALL TIMES"



http://youtu.be/jjP0_cP8TA8


1st Movement (quasi una Fantasia) Intro: 0:10 - Main Theme 0:40
2nd Movement (Scherzo) 8:03
3rd Movement (Valse Triste) 13:12
4th Movement (Finale) 16:24


Listeners' reactions to J Townley--Piano Concerto No 2: 
"...probably one of the best "romantic" piano concertos of the XXIst century..."
"...this equals if not beats Saint Saens piano concerto in G minor."
" A masterpiece - Rachmaninoff himself couldn't have done it better. "
" OMG!!! did you compose all this??!! It completely amazed me from the first seconds. "
" Absolutely beautiful work! I'm really impressed! "
" Love it love it love it even more than the first time I heard it :) "
" This is beautiful. "
" I was so enthralled by the opening movement that I just listened to the whole piece at once..."
" I have to say that I love your piano concerto! "
" Beautiful day to you all my friends! With the cold comes and settles we will be able to listen to music longer. I share with you today a beautiful piano concerto, a contemporary musician, jjoe Townley. Good listening to this magnificent work so! (The Piano Concerto No. 1 is available on the google page ....)."
"...let me thank you for this piece. "

2-piano 4-hand score of 4th movement at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/235124372/J-Joe-Townley-Piano-Concerto-No-2-in-C-Minor-Op-2-4th-Mov-Concert-Revision#scribd

If the score is blurred go to the 'settings' cogwheel under the red timeline bar on the RH side of the screen. Click on it to lower a viewing menu. Click '720p HD'. Clicking Full Screen also sharpens the image. 

Download 2-piano 4-hand score of 1st movement at
http://www.free-scores.com/...

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. Instead, I entered the business world. 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 my consciousness suddenly surfaced and I finally committed myself to writing that piano concerto, which became the No.1 in F# Minor Opus 1 (also here on YouTube), not having any formal training in orchestration except what I had gleaned from reading orchestral scores in the intervening years. Later, on reflection, I came to realize that the Concerto No. 1 wasn't the concerto I had always wanted to write. A second one followed in 2013, the one you're listening to, Opus 2, which is that concerto.

1st Movement (quasi una Fantasia) Intro: 0:10 - Main Theme 0:40
2nd Movement (Scherzo) 8:03
3rd Movement (Valse Triste) 13:12
4th Movement (Finale) 16:24