Piano Concerto

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  Piano Concerto No. 3

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. post. 75, was begun as a symphony in E flat. The symphony was abandoned, only to become a a single-movement Allegro brillante when published posthumously. Controversy remains, despite the composer's stated intentions, as to what...

• Piano Concerto No. 5

  The Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103, popularly known as The Egyptian, was Camille Saint-Saëns' last piano concerto. He wrote it in 1896, 20 years after his Fourth Piano Concerto, to play himself at his own Jubilee Concert on May 6 of that year. This concert celebrated the fiftieth...

• Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

  The Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B minor by Wilhelm Furtwängler was written between 1924 and 1937 and is among the longest of all piano concertos. It received its world premiere in Munich on October 1937, with Edwin Fischer as the piano soloist; Furtwängler conducted the Berlin...

• Piano Concerto No. 2

  The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 23 by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904-1987), was composed in 1935, and revised in 1973. Its first performance was given in Moscow on May 12, 1936. It consists of three movements: Though heavily influenced by Prokofiev, the composer nevertheless maintains...

• Piano Concerto No. 1

  Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor (op. 25) was written in 1830–1, around the same time as his fourth symphony ("Italian"), and premiered in Munich in October 1831. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment (1822) and two concertos with two pianos (1823...

• Piano Concerto

  The Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20, is an early work of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) composed in 1896. At only 24, it was his first work for orchestra and is the only concerto that he wrote. Scriabin completed the concerto in only a few days in the fall of 1896, but...