This Romantic masterpiece, admired as much for its dazzling virtuoso passages as for its sumptuous expressive palette and memorable melodies (taken up more than once in popular music decades later), represents one of the pinnacles of the piano repertoire—a challenge to which only a pianist of Gerstein's calibre is able to rise with such success. Gerstein follows the concerto with a spectacular showpiece, the Etude for the Left Hand by Felix Blumenfield—you'll have to see it to believe that you're hearing only one hand play…