The Tempest of the Soul2
Late-Romantic piano concerto in three connected dramatic movements, intensely virtuosic grand piano against answering orchestra, opening with a spare haunting melody that unfolds into contrapuntal variations, cascading arpeggios, vast chords, rapid octaves and an extended cadenza; close piano set against deep orchestral space, long crescendos and fragile interludes; restless scherzo drive with shifting accents, gathering into accelerating, thunderous resolve; instrumental
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