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Since Paul and Robert were going to listen, I decided to add a little description to the 3 amazing piano concerti of Rautavaara. if you have spotify I recomment the recording of Gothoni, for the 1st and 2nd concerto Concerto 1, mvt 1: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ank-lcc-bhU (with score) This concerto opens with left hand piano runs and right hand clusters. These ingredients will continue to play an important role the whole movement, while it is quite lyrical. A combinations is especially noteworthy, the piano plays a soft gentile B theme, while at the end of a phrase plays really loud clusters. The effect is really cool. The 2nd movt ( ) is a sweet middle pianoconcerto movement.The 3rd ( ) is rather energetic, danceable, where he added small introjections/trills by several winds like a painter adds blobs of piant.The 2nd concerto ( ) is similar and different of the 1st the same time. Hazy fast figures introjected with harsh moments (flexatone!) remind of the 1st concerto. But the tone is more sad. This concerto features a rather lyric and painfully beatiful mourning-theme that is exposed in the first and recaps in the 3rd movement. This theme is played so often, between the percussion interojections, the effect is that of a profoundly sad ostinate. I found this one the hardest to learn to appreciate, but now I probably like this one the most.The 3rd concerto ( ) is more different. The interesting thing about the harmonies is the pure counterpoint, because of the mirroring bass. The restult is quite pretty bitonal. Then the piano plays nice chords, accompanied by the strings.The 2nd mov is again the normal expressive piano concerto mid mvt ( )The 3rd is like it suposed to be the energetic finale, but I can't find it on youtube.