Tippett composed this lyrical work at the same time that he wrote his opera The Midsummer Marriage, and the two pieces of music bear many similarities. Originally, Tippett wanted to write it for the pianist Noel Mewton-Wood, but Mewton-Wood committed suicide while the work was in the planning stages...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Piano Concerto was written by Michael Tippett.
Michael Tippett released Piano Concerto on Tue Oct 30 1956.
Tippett said he was inspired to write the concerto by listening to Walter Gieseking play Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto:
Under the influence of an exceptionally poetic yet classical performance of the Beethoven movement, I found myself persuaded that a contemporary concerto might be written, in...