RANKED NO. 27 IN "THE TOP TENS" LIST OF 'GREATEST PIANO CONCERTOS OF ALL TIME'
LISTED ON VIDEO PARADES AS ONE OF 'THE BEST PIANO CONCERTOS OF ALL TIMES'
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Dr. Darrel Ray, bestselling author, says:
" I am astounded at this piece. I only wish it could be performed by a major orchestra and pianist. I love Rachmaninoff, but J Joe Townley meets him head-on with this piece. This concerto is among the best. I hope it finds its way in to the repertoire. It is just too good. It deserves to stand by the Rach 2. "
The audio is harsh, sadly. This happens with all screen-capture programs--inevitable deterioration of the sound, so there's an awesome downloadable audio of the concerto:
https://soundcloud.com/j-joe-townley/j-joe-townley-piano-concerto-no-2-in-c-minor-opus-2
1st Movement (quasi una Fantasia) Intro---Main Theme 0:32 
2nd Movement (Scherzo) 8:01 (Notation errors @ 8:25 measures 11-12 in the left hand --m. 11 should read Beat 1: chord B.2: triplet--chord c#&g, a, b-flat B.3: e&b-flat, c-natural, c# B.4 g&c#, d#, e---m.12 left hand should read B.1: b-flat&e, f#, g B.2: c#&g, a, b-flat B.3: e&b-flat, c-natural, c# B.4: g&c#, d#, e )
3rd Movement (Valse Triste) 14:35 (no longer part of the concerto)
4th Movement (Finale) 17:54
Switching to "HD" in "settings" will improve the picture quality.
The recapitulation that was cut in the "2014 Version" is restored in this one at 26:37 . The "2014" had numerous notation glitches--diamonds instead of music notes.  Such glitches usually occur in transfers between different notation programs.
2-piano 4-hand score of the 1st Mov. at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/200537397/Piano-Concerto-No-2-in-C-Minor-Opus-2-2-Piano-1st-Mov
The 3rd movement has been removed and added to "Ghostly Waltzes" Opus 3:
https://youtu.be/pJA0gn_2t_k     The piano solo under its new title, "Ghostly Waltz' at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104558384/Ghostly-Waltz
2-piano/4-hand score of 4th Mov (now 3rd Mov.)  at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/235124372/J-Joe-Townley-Piano-Concerto-No-2-in-C-Minor-Op-2-4th-Mov-Concert-Revision
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.