2016 CONCERT REPATOIRE

The piece, as marked in the score, is in three movements: Allegro affettuoso (A minor) Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso (F major) Allegro vivace (A major) There is no break between these last two movements (attacca subito). Schumann preferred that the movements be listed in concert programs as only two movements:[citation needed] Allegro affettuoso Andantino and Rondo The three movement listing is the more common form used. Schumann had earlier worked on several piano concerti: he began one in E-flat major in 1828, from 1829–31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto in D minor. None of these works were completed. In 1841, Schumann wrote a fantasy for piano and orchestra, his Phantasie. His pianist wife Clara urged him to expand this piece into a full piano concerto. In 1845 he added the intermezzo and finale to complete the work. It was the only piano concerto that Schumann completed. The work may have been used as a model by Edvard Grieg in composing his own Piano Concerto, also in A minor. Grieg's concerto, like Schumann's, employs a single powerful orchestral chord at its introduction before the piano's entrance with a similar descending flourish. Rachmaninov also used the work as a model for his first Piano Concerto. After this concerto, Schumann wrote two other pieces for piano and orchestra: the Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G major (Op. 92), and the Introduction and Allegro Concertante in D minor (Op. 134). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynky7qoPnUU Martha Argerich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbHbDena_U Khatia Buniatshvili