Moiseiwitsch plays Mendelssohn Concerto No.1 (I)

Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, op.25; composed in 1831 (probably revised in 1832); premiered in 1831; dedicated to Delphine von Schauroth, a baroness's daughter, who was famous for her beauty, as described by Mendelssohn on a letter to his sister Fanny: "Ministers and Counts trot around her like domestic animals in the hen yard."

Mendelssohn premiered the piece himself to great success in Munich on October 17. Franz Liszt later made the concerto so popular that Hector Berlioz, in his "Evenings with the Orchestra", described a particular Érard piano that had been subjected to the work so many times that it refused to quit playing the concerto until chopped into pieces and burned...

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PART I :
- Molto allegro con fuoco

PART II : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5E6FCclSkw
- Andante

PART III : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DZ-gpZKg4
- Presto - Molto allegro e vivace

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