Best Romantic Modern

Busoni’s Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 represents a significant work bridging Romantic and Modern musical styles. Composed between 1903 and 1904, it is notable for its substantial length and innovative structure. The concerto features an orchestral core alongside a monumental choral finale perfo...

Stenhammar's second piano concerto in D minor, Op. 23, completed in 1907, is widely regarded as one of the finest Scandinavian piano concertos and a peak of his output.

Rachmaninoff's last piano concerto, composed in 1926 and premiered in Philadelphia in 1927, is less frequently performed than his second and third, reflecting a leaner, more modernist idiom.

Medtner's Second Piano Concerto in C minor is a substantial late-Romantic work by a Russian composer who championed traditional tonality throughout the early 20th century.

Scriabin's only completed piano concerto, composed around 1896, reflects his late-Romantic influences before his later harmonic innovations and mystical philosophical turn.

Medtner dedicated his Third and final Piano Concerto to his friend Sergei Rachmaninoff, who championed Medtner's music and helped fund the premiere recording in the 1940s.

Russian composer Nikolai Medtner wrote this first of his three piano concertos, a densely argued Romantic work reflecting his lifelong resistance to modernist trends.

Reinhold Glière's Piano Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 82, is a lyrical, Romantic-influenced work by the Russian-Soviet composer (1875–1956) and early teacher of Prokofiev.

Alexander Glazunov's First Piano Concerto is a single-movement late-Romantic work by the Russian composer who served as director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Frederick Delius's Piano Concerto in C minor, originally composed in 1897 and revised in 1906 into a single movement, reflects his lyrical impressionist-influenced language.