Le Totentanz De Cauchemar (Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor)

[kakeithewolf]

Recently, I finished up a short concerto for piano, Le Totentanz De Cauchemar. The concerto is a three movement concerto based on a poem I wrote, "Le Grand Jeu Du Cauchemar". However, I'm on the fence about the final movement, and do not know whether or not I should omit it.

Any feedback is quite welcome.

[kakeithewolf]

Also, I forgot originally to give a little more detail on this.

The first movement is based on the description of Cauchemar and his witness of the village below. It's a small prelude that is based in a 8th that is either on the two lowest D-sharps of the piano or the two immediately above those (or both), and a shift between D#, E, and D#. It starts with a few notes on bells, and then goes into a minute or so of solo piano before using the full (small) orchestra.

The second movement is a paraphrase on the Dies Irę. The beginning stanza is repeated twice in the beginning, once with solo piano and once with all instruments, then there is a fugue in which the rest of the Dies Irę is played on piano, in a bass, alto (two at the end), and soprano section, whilst the third stanza of the Dies Irę is played on organ as a slow bass line. After, the fugue is repeated with all instruments, whilst the fourth stanza is played on organ as another bass line.

The final movement is a combination of the two, with the parts of the first stanza of the Dies Irę paraphrase replacing the D#, E, D# shift in the first movement.

I did not describe this well, due to being distracted and tired.