Re: Romantic Piano Concertos Anyone?
It's a cliche to name Rachmaninoff's "Variations on a Theme by Paganini" as containing The Most Romantic piano music...
I listen to a prodigious amount of 'classical', as the marketplace calls it, thanks to an overpowering aversion to commercials which keeps my tuner pegged exclusively to the local public radio station (I was also raised with it). I have a special weakness for the Russian composers, who seem the most romantic of all, and here's my nomination for the quintessence:
Scheherezade, by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakoff
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