Shostakovich composed his piano concerto 2 purely to provide his son with an easy concerto as an audition piece for his entry into the music conservatoire.
Just nepotism.
It uses ideas from Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Prokofiev, etc. Why not just listen to Tchaikovsky etc?
It is simple and deserves its popularity, but you can't really live with it -- it has no substance.
Who the hell's Rand?
