Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Andris Poga

Edvard Grieg presented only one piano concerto to the public, and still spent a long time polishing it afterwards. He wrote it in 1868 during a trip to Denmark with his bride Nina, but it was another woman who inspired him: the famous pianist Clara Schumann, whom he had listened to as a student in Leipzig playing the A minor Piano Concerto by her husband Robert, whom he admired greatly.