First Piano Concertos

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Nikolai Karlovich Medtner & Yevgeny Sudbin & OSESP & John Neschling

The First Piano Concerto is a piano concerto by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, completed in 1874 and premiered in 1875. Its music combines sweeping Romantic orchestral writing with virtuosic piano passages and expansive melodies, and the concerto occupies an important position in Tchaikovsky's output as an early large-scale work for piano and orchestra.
First released: February 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
    19:20
  2. 2.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: II. Andantino
    7:07
  3. 3.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: III. Allegro con fuoco
    6:54
  4. 4.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor: I. Allegro
    12:05
  5. 5.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor: II. Tranquillo, meditamente
    13:27
  6. 6.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor: III. Tempo I
    2:17
  7. 7.
    Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor: IV. Coda: Allegro molto
    6:53
  8. 8.
    9 Goethe Songs, op. 6 no. 5: Liebliches Kind!
    1:46

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