Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor

The Second Piano Concerto dates from 1930, from the Berlin years in which Vladigerov was working as composer and conductor at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater. It is the largest-scaled of his concertos and the most openly late-Romantic in its piano writing, with a first movement built on long paragraphs rather than on dance patterns; the Bulgarian element enters chiefly through the rhythmic profile of the finale. He returned to Sofia two years later to teach at the State Academy of Music, where he remained until 1972 and trained most of the following generation of Bulgarian composers.