<P> In 1882--83 Grieg worked on a second piano concerto in B minor, but it was never completed . The sketches for the concerto have been recorded by pianist Einar Steen - Nøkleberg . In 1997, the Grieg Society of Oslo held a competition for composers to "re-imagine" Grieg's second concerto . One of the contestants, the Belgian composer Laurent Beeckmans, elaborated a full piano concerto from the sketches, which was first performed in London on 3 May 2003 . Another elaboration on Grieg's sketches was completed by the Norwegian composer Helge Evju and was recorded by the Naxos label . </P> <P> The enduring popularity of Grieg's Piano Concerto has ensured its use in a wide variety of contexts . </P> <Ul> <Li> The first movement's coda features in the film Intermezzo (1939) starring Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman . </Li> <Li> The Concerto was featured in the film The Seventh Veil (1945) as the piece played by the young concert pianist (Ann Todd; the uncredited pianist was Eileen Joyce). </Li> <Li> It was famously parodied in Franz Reizenstein's Concerto Popolare of 1959 (written for Gerard Hoffnung's music festival). </Li> <Li> The opening theme of the first movement was used in the song "Asia Minor", a top - ten pop hit from 1961 . The title of the song was also based on the key of the concerto, A minor . </Li> <Li> Excerpts from the first movement are incorporated into the number "Rosemary", in the Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). </Li> <Li> The concerto was used in a sketch by the British comedians Morecambe and Wise in their 1971 Christmas show . Conducted by André Previn, with Eric Morecambe as soloist, Morecambe claims he is playing "all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order". In fact, he was playing a simplified version of the correct music, but in a completely inappropriate style . </Li> <Li> The comedian Bill Bailey is a skilled musician, and has used Grieg's piano concerto for comic effect; in the TV Series Black Books it is played by his character Manny Bianco, and it is cited as an example in his solo mock - scholarly sketch on cockney music . </Li> <Li> The introductory motif opens "Make the Most of Your Music", in the 1987 revised version of Follies . </Li> <Li> Cuban bandleader Alfredo Valdés repeatedly references the first movement of the concerto in Canto a La Vueltabajera . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The first movement's coda features in the film Intermezzo (1939) starring Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman . </Li>

Grieg piano concerto in a minor 1st movement