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Originally Posted by firsty_ferret
My teacher always says that the writing in the piece is quite poor (except for the piano) - I must admit i've heard better concerto's since then but that piece was my starting point  - the only classical music i really listened to was chopin's piano pieces to begin with, but after hearing the concerto I wanted to listen to more orchestral stuff which meant listening to different composers. I'm quite a fan of chopin in general still though ^.^ each to their own i guess |
Yeah. His piano concertos aren't masterpieces when it comes to the handling of the orchestra (I've played horn in the second once... weirdest horn line I've ever seen - except that one cool horn signal!), but if you don't approach them as piano concertos but just as piano pieces with some "orchestral aura", they are quite beautiful. I still prefer his pure piano pieces, but I can enjoy the concertos too.