National Edition: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F-minor, Op. 21, Version for one piano

Fryderyk Chopin: Concierto para piano nº 2, opus 21, en fa menor, versión para piano solo.

Edited by Jan Ekier, Pawel Kaminski.

Piano concertos combine two elements: pure playing and full poetic expression. Virtuosity and romance. Pianistic brilliance, educated in the works in the stile brillant, brought to perfection, but at the same time ? a farewell. Both are forms of direct expression of the personality of the composer, which showed itself in them for the first time with so much strength and is manifested in a group of characteristics of forming Chopin's individual style.

Piano Concerto in F minor
In terms of size, substantially smaller than the E minor concerto and also a different kind of expression: more lyrical, drawn in delicate pastel colours. Especially famous is the second movement, the Larghetto, which Chopin wrote under the inspiration of his first love.