Maria João Pires plays CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO # 1 in E minor- Emmanuel Krivine conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Opinions of the concerto differ. Some critics feel that the orchestral support as written is dry and uninteresting, notably the critic James Huneker, who wrote in Chopin: The Man and his Music that it was “not Chopin at his very best.”
On the other hand, Robert Schumann reviewed Chopin’s concerti in 1836 for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik that “Chopin introduces the spirit of Beethoven into the concert hall”[ with these pieces.