British musician Benjamin Britten composed his Piano Concerto in 1938, and then revised it in 1945. Britten’s first work for piano and orchestra was written for himself to play at a Promenade Concert. In 1945 the original slow movement, ‘Recitative and Aria’, was replaced with a newly composed ‘Impromptu’.
As a true ‘bravura’ work, the Piano Concerto has been championed in recent years by internationally renowned pianists. The composer was 24 when this work was written. The movements are:
1 Toccata
2 Waltz
3 Impromptu (replacing the original Recitative and Aria)
4 March
Here is Britten’s Piano concerto Op. 13:
