Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev composed his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, opus 16 from 1912 to 1913, the world premiere took place in the summer of 1913 in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg instead. By the majority of music critics, as well as the majority of the audience, the work was badly received. During the First World War, the original score was lost, probably burned them. Prokofiev saw in 1923 compelled to compose a new orchestration that was played in the following year in Paris for the first time. In both premieres Prokofiev himself was the soloist. Between 1929, when Prokofiev performed it for the last time and 1949, when it played Jorge Bolet in New Orleans, the concert, according to the publisher Boosey & Hawkes ( which gives the orchestral parts ) was not listed. Bolet playing the work in 1953 for the first time one, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and his then chief conductor Thor Johnson at the small label Remington Records.

Music

The composition is one of the more well-known works of modern music, but contains in addition to its typical of Expressionism dissonant passages also extended romantic sections. The concert is divided into four sets, which are denoted as follows.