Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 16 (1868 - 1872)
Saiddin Baltabay, soloist
Muslim Amze conducting Kyzylorda regional Symphony Orchestra.
Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan. 7.09.2024

0:00 1. Part
8:42 Cadenza
12:55 2. Part
17:28 3.Part

Grieg composed his Piano Concerto op. 16 in 1868 in Sölleröd, Denmark, where he sought the advice of the Danish composer and pianist Edmund Neu-pert, particularly in the shaping of the solo part. He completed the score that winter at his home in Kristiania, Oslo.
The première took place as early as
3 April 1869 when Neupert, the work's dedicatee, played it in Copenhagen. The concerto only reached print after the first Leipzig performance, when it was issued in full score, orchestral parts and solo part by Fritzsch in Leipzig (1872).
Before then it had been rejected by Hornemann in Oslo and also by Fritzsch in a previous attempt in 1870. The basis of the first edition was Grieg's immaculately written autograph score of 1868.
(Einar Steen-Nökleberg, Ernst-Günter Heinemann. 2003)