Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2 [Op. 21]

Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 (most likely the Alfred Cortot edition however I am currently unsure) Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conductor - Zubin Mehta.
Piano - Lang Lang.

0:00 I. Maestoso
14:18 II. Larghetto
23:58 III. Allegro vivace

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, is a piano concerto composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1829. Chopin wrote the piece before he had finished his formal education, at around 20 years of age. It was first performed on 17 March 1830, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist. It was the second of his piano concertos to be published (after the Piano Concerto No. 1), and so was designated as "No. 2", even though it was written first.

It has long been the general critical consensus that Chopin's two piano concertos do not represent him at his best. "All the interest," wrote Berlioz, "is concentrated in the piano part; the orchestra of his concertos is nothing but a cold and almost useless accompaniment." The perfunctory treatment of the orchestra in the concertos can be attributed in part to the example of Chopin's model, Hummel. Hummel also gave the orchestra a subordinate role in his concertos, and his lead was followed not only by Chopin but also by most of the lesser known concerto composers of the early Romantic period—Field, Kalkbrenner, and Moscheles.

The delay in its publication, which produces the confusion over the order of composition, was caused in part by Chopin's having mislaid or lost the original orchestral parts on his way from Warsaw to Paris via Vienna in 1830-1831; he did not want to re-write the parts.

Attempts have been made to re-orchestrate and arrange Chopin's two piano concertos by Klindworth, Granados, and Burmeister. However, the concertos were conceived in terms of the keyboard, and modification of the orchestral part without changing the piano writing also is hardly possible. To alter the piano part would be unthinkable.

This Concerto is dedicated to Countess Delphine Potocka, a longtime friend who sang to Chopin on his deathbed.

Unfortunately, this midi was performed, rather then generated from a pdf, and contains subtle errors and inconsistencies with the performance which I have tried to correct but may still be present.

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