Len Fehskens wrote of the Saint-Saens First Piano Concerto:

>I am especially fond of 1 and its "Beyond the Fringe" every-coda-cliche
>finale to the first movement.

Yes!  Although I always think first of the finale, with its downright silly
opening theme and its out-of-control let's-make-this-sound-majestic coda.

Peter Goldstein