Piano Concerto (Britten)

[Benjamin Britten]]'s Piano Concerto, Op. 13 is the composers sole piano concerto. He composed it 1938 and then made some revisions in 1945, supplying a new third movement. The revised version premiered at the Cheltenham Festival on July 2, 1946. The London premiere was performed soon after at the Henry Wood Proms in Royal Albert Hall with Noel Mewton-Wood as the soloist performing with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Basil Cameron.^[1]

Form

The concerto is in four movements:

Originally the third movement was a Recitative and Aria.

Album	Soloist	Conductor	Orchestra
Britten Piano Concerto and Violen Concerto	Sviatoslav Richter	Benjamin Britten	English Chamber Orchestra
Britten Piano Concerto and Johnson over Jordan (Suite)	Joanna MacGregor	Steuart Bedford	English Chamber Orchestra

^ Mitchell, Donald; et al. (2004). Letters from a life: the selected letters and diaries of Benjamin Britten. University of California Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-520-24259-9. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first= (help)

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