Richard Pennycuick wrote: >The notes from a mid-60s reissue LP, which calls it Concerto No 1 and also >Piano Concerto No 1: "The designation 'No 1', incidentally, does not imply >a second Britten piano concerto after this one. The composer chose to call >this work his 'Concerto No 1' and his violin concerto...'Concerto No 2'." >I'm not endorsing this rather odd system, just reporting. Just as Debussy's final sonatas. He intended to compose a series of six sonatas - imitating the Baroque period, e.g. Bach's Brandenburg Concerts - but could only finish the 3rd (the violin sonata), which was therefore one of his "final thoughts"... Simon Corley [log in to unmask]