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Romantic Concerto

Nationalism was a driving force in music- composers wanted their music to reflect their own country of birth

Chopin

Concerto in E minor
1. Performed for Polish refugees – nationalist
2. Critisized sometimes for allowing the piano to dominate the orchestra
3. A vehicle for soloist rather than an equal partnership with orchestra
4. Slow movement shows he was able to make the piano 'sing' imitating the bel canto lines of operatic composers such as Bellini

Schumann

Piano concerto in A minor
1. Orchestra and solo antiphonal in 2nd movement, playful humorous dialogue
2. 2nd movement to Finale without a break
3. quotes first subject from opening movement and suddenly changes key to A major
4. rhythmic ambiguity 3v2

Saint-Saens

1st Violin Concerto
In one whole movement- single form sonata with a slow section instead of development

Piano concerto 5
Contains Egyptian tunes and Programmatic elements to evoke a picture of Egypt: croaking frogs, songs of boatmen, thud of ship's propellers etc

Tchaikovsky

Saw concerto as a duel between soloist and orchestra

Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor
1. Piano plays thunderous chordal accompaniment to a broad melody in strings
2. This melody only appears in intro and is not developed anywhere else
3. Contains Ukrainian folk melodies – nationalism
4. Dedicated to Nicholas Rubinstein but rejected
5. Then dedicated to German pianist Hans von Bulow but Rubinstein changed his mind after Tchaikovsky revised the work in 1889 – role of soloist

Violin Concerto in D
Written for Leopol Auer who declared several passages unplayable – role of soloist

Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor
1. Finale contains Norwegian...