Virginia Knight wrote:

>Last week I went to a Promenade concert and heard Shostakovich's 2nd piano
>concerto (1957).  Afterwards my husband remarked that he believed this was
>the most recent piano concerto that is widely played.  We couldn't even
>think of many more recent piano concertos that aren't widely played!  Any
>suggestions?

Lutoslawski's concerto is somewhat widely played (probably as much as the
Shostakovich), and Ligeti's pops up semi-regularly on new music ensemble
concerts.  Elliot Carter's seems to brink on being semi-regular, but I
haven't seen a performance of it scheduled in a couple of years.  Two other
recent concertos that I can think of that *should* be played often: Per
Norgard's Concerto in dui tempi and James MacMillan's Berserking.  I was
disappointed by both John Adams' and Christopher Rouse's new concertos
('Century Rolls' and 'Seeing', respectively).

Marcus Maroney
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