Topic: Odd fact about Grieg's piano concerto

[Brian]

According to Wikipedia,

Liszt also gave Grieg some advice on orchestration of the piano concerto, (e.g. to give the melody of the second theme in the first movement to a solo trumpet).

Trumpet! Liszt was a lunatic! But Grieg took the advice, and also gave the second movement's main theme to the trumpets.

Thankfully, he revised the concerto right before he died.

Whew    we really escaped a disaster!

[Steve]

According to Wikipedia,Trumpet! Liszt was a lunatic! But Grieg took the advice, and also gave the second movement's main theme to the trumpets.

Thankfully, he revised the concerto right before he died.

Whew    we really escaped a disaster!

This work, among the many great concerti available, is one I cherish dearly. I would hate to see such a terrible revision. That spledid [/b]adagio[/b], is just so soft and intimate, I could not imagine it in the hands of the Trumpets. At least, no harm was done.   

[carlos]

An other weird fact about Grieg's p.c.: On April 1951
great super-virtuoso Simon Barer was playing it first
time live with Ormandy and the Ph.O,had a brain
attack and died on stage.

[greg]

Believe it or not, I just finished listening to this one for the first time a few days ago- I also got the score, but haven't listened while following along yet.