Virginia Knight <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>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?

Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Norgaard, and Lowell Liebermann have all written piano
concertos that I like a lot.  The Liebermann ones are pretty widely played,
for contemporary music, but they're throwbacks (and very nice ones).

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