Xaver Scharwenka - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 32

- Composer: Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 -- 8 December 1924) - Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Neeme Järvi - Soloist: Alexander Markovich - Year of recording: 2013 Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 32, written in 1876. 00:00 - I. Allegro Patetico 10:44 - II. Allegro assai 17:53 - III. Allegro non tanto Scharwenka’s 1st Piano Concerto in B flat minor (1876) brought Scharwenka great renown. It is dedicated to Liszt, for whom Scharwenka performed it privately. The gestation of the work was not simple. It began life as a two-movement Fantasy for solo piano and Scharwenka worked on it for several years from the early 1870s before it reached its final shape. In three movements, the result is a seemingly conventional structure, yet the content reflects its origins as a solo fantasia. It is famously the only (or perhaps one of the few) concertos that features 3 allegro movements consecutively. Scharwenka often perfo