Xaver Scharwenka - Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor

- Composer: Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 -- 8 December 1924) - Orchestra: Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra - Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz - Soloist: François Xavier Poizat - Year of recording: 2009 Concerto for piano & orchestra No. 4 in F minor, Op. 82, written in 1908. 00:00 - I. Allegro patetico 19:28 - II. Intermezzo. Allegretto molto tranquillo 26:27 - III. Lento, mesto 35:46 - IV. Allegro con fuoco Scharwenka’s most outstanding and most popular compositions are his 4 piano concertos, works which made him famous as a composer and pianist on both sides of the Atlantic. The Concerto in F minor, is Scharwenka’s last piano concerto. It crowns his experience of the form, and appears to be his final “coming to terms“ with piano music, for the technical demands of the solo part reach the apex of performance skills, particularly in the outermost movements. The massive texture of the piano part based on octave repetitions and bra