Xaver Scharwenka - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

- Composer: Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 -- 8 December 1924) - Orchestra: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Richard Kapp - Soloist: Michael Ponti - Year of recording: 1969-1971 Concerto for piano & orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 56, written in 1881. 00:00 - I. Allegro 17:19 - II. Adagio 25:53 - III. Allegro non troppo When he returned to the genre in 1881, with the Second Piano Concerto in C minor, Scharwenka seemed stylistically to be taking a step back. The concerto has less rhetori