[1] Elgar was not a great lover of the piano, and he was busy organising the first performance of his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius in Düsseldorf.
[4] Elgar consulted Fanny Davies during the writing of the work, and she made a number of suggestions for improvements, signing her notations "Humbly, F.D.".
[6] In light of these criticisms of Davies' playing and of the work itself, Elgar decided to revise it and shorten it by removing some of the repeats.
[1] His later work on a piano concerto, started in 1913, left unfinished at his death and now completed by other hands as Op.
[3] Some time before 1942, the composer and conductor Anthony Bernard was asked to arrange the piece for piano and orchestra, but decided against doing so.
[3] Bernard's study was bombed during World War II and many of his papers were destroyed, the score of the Concert Allegro being assumed to have suffered that fate.
Ogdon gave the first modern performance of the work, on British television on 2 February 1969.
The original score, with all the repeats that Elgar had intended, has been realised and performed by David Owen Norris.