The star of the program is this piano concerto by Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838), a Romantic composer who was a student of Beethoven, and someone I only recently became aware of. And we're all about the Romantics here, aren't we? After all, Gothic is an offshoot of Romantic...
Anyway, here's his lovely Piano Concerto No. 8!
Quite a work, eh? You'll be sure to hunt down his other works. It's fun discovering a composer you never knew...
Anyway, the concert's over, let's go and have a drink, shall we?
