Much like Mozart, Prokofiev did some of his best work for piano and orchestra. And it seems like critics are catching up to what I though the first time I heard Prokofiev's 2nd piano concerto: that is certainly the greatest piano concerto since Beethoven's, and one of the finest concertos of any kind ever written.



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The key to Yefim Bronfman and Zubin Metha's performance is the virtuosity is in the service of Prokofiev's musical ideas, not the point of the piece.