🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Piano Concerto No.1 in Es-Dur, S.124/R.455 H4

Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is structured as a single movement unfolding continuously in four sections. The theme introduced at the opening returns throughout the work in changing guises, creating a contrast between powerful ideas and singing melodies. The lyrical section highlights the dialogue between piano and orchestra, while the lively scherzo-like passage and the march-like excitement of the closing section are also especially striking. Performance requires more than dazzling virtuosity: the thematic transformations should be clearly shaped, the balance with the orchestra carefully controlled, and the work’s sharp rhythms combined with a lyrical sense of line.