Chopin composed his piano concertos around 1829/30, which means that to a certain extent they are the climax and conclusion of his student years in Warsaw. Both works are early masterpieces with which Chopin celebrated great triumphs on his first concert tours abroad, and to this day the popularity of these piano concertos has remained unbroken.

The Concerto in f minor - the first to be written - was not published until 1836, when Chopin was already firmly established in Paris. Compared with ...