The fascinating world of the piano concerto – where virtuosos showcase their skills and composers have the freedom to experiment. Ever since Johann Sebastian Bach liberated keyboard instruments from having to provide a mere accompaniment, the piano concerto has become one of the best-loved genres for concert audiences around the world. Every significant composer of the Classical and Romantic era, many of whom were themselves virtuosos on the piano, has written a masterpiece for this genre, performing it themselves as a means of self-promotion and a welcome source of income.
Since the 1990s, the piano concerto has been a permanent fixture in our Urtext programme. Especially in recent years, following the inclusion of important concertos by Bach, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Gershwin in our catalogue, it is now high time to pay a fitting tribute to the piano concerto in 2024 – as the pinnacle for pianists. You can explore our selection of piano concertos here. Among them, you will find two wonderful facsimile editions: Antonín Dvořák’s piano concerto and a recent addition and in honour of his 150th birthday, that of Arnold Schönberg. The orchestral material for many of these works has been published in cooperation with the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel.
It is no coincidence that piano concertos are performed in the final rounds of major piano competitions. That is why this year we are donating special prizes at prestigious traditional competitions such as the Concours Géza Anda and the Cleveland International Piano Competition.
So why not select your next, perhaps deeply personal project from the following list of Urtext editions? We wish you a lot of pleasure when sight-reading, practising, rehearsing, and performing it!
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